Truth is Stranger than Fiction

[Glider]

What a great bit of kit BBC News - Black Hornet spycam is a 'lifesaver' for British troops.

 

[Glider]

The Spanish Navy designed a new submarine the S80 class. The original design was for a 71 meter 2,200 ton submarine but they discovered that it was so overweight there was a realistic chance that if it submerged it wouldn't be able to surface. The solution was to lengthen the boat, giving it more boyancy resulting in a 81 meter boat that weighs 3,000 tons and works perfectly.

Unfortunately it is now too long to fit in the docks, which are being lengthened to take it.

Spain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles, speaking on Spanish radio, admitted that "there have been deficiencies in the project"

 

[Zipper730]

Christ it is a wonder we survived the cold war.

I know, really!? It's amazing how many times we came close to bombing ourselves back to the stone-age due to mistakes, malfunctions, and dangerous personalities with their hands on the button to launch more firepower than had apparently been expended in every single war up to that point (and now)