It is a long time since I fired a Browning but I seem to remember the gas generated was integral to the feed and operation of the gun. I might be wrong but I suspect it is not technically possible to fire continuous blank rounds of .303 or .50 through the appropriate Browning.

Mark

You’d have to use blank-adapters much like we us here on our MILES systems.

If I recall right, a Tu-95 on its way to Cuba once flew close enough to Andrews AFB to be seen from the tower! Of course fighters were scrambled and it was shooed away, but I’m sure this wasnt an isolated incident.

Well I know they had at least one becuase Hans Rudel sunk one in a Stuka…that about the extent of my knowledge about Russian BB’s.

A constitution can be changed. I think that Roosevelt had a third term due to WW II.
If the threat of terrorism is getting bigger I believe Bush could get some support for a third term, it depends on the situation. I don´t hope that this situation is getting so that this will ever happen !!

There will never again be a third or fourth term president. FDR was becuase the constitution was amended AFTER he died. Despite his popularity it was decided by Congress not to allow somehow to gain that much power ever again. It simply will not happen.

I may not like Bush and didnt vote for him, but the world is not over, he is not the all powerful dictator ppl make him out to be. In a political scale that takes in worldwide extremes the Rep and Dems are about two inches apart. Not much really seperates them, much more unites them. Americans, and Europeans for that matter, love to make a big deal of the differences rather then the similarities. Though someday I do hope to vote for a winner :diablo:

As for conspiracy thoeries of any kind….they are just a non-critical simple way of explaining a complex situation. People who subscribe to them are simply too lazy to be critical thinkers.

If some of you guys do make it to Calgary dont miss the Muesuem of the Regiments…very, very well done. I was up there recently scoping out the Center for Military and Strategic Studies at UC but didnt get to either the Naval or Avation muesuem, hopefully next time! By the way, great pics, thanks for sharing!!!

BTW there is an another muesuem about an hour south of Calgary near the US border that has at least one Lanc and some other aircraft i couldnt make out as i went by…anyone been there?

Entropy, I’m nnot telling anything else!

And it was a bit cheap from Stalin to wait until then to enter the war against Japan, but it’s true that there wasn’t much he had to fear there.

Just misunderstod you then, sorry! 🙂 Anyway, one must remember that when the agreement was made at Yalta in ’45 the allies were anticapating Operation Olympic, the invasion of the home islands. No one was expecting the war to end in September of 1945 and the Soviets would be a essential to tie up the bulk of the Japanese Army in Manchuria. Stalin’s entering the war in August was planned, the end of the war in Sept wasnt.