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Triumph and Tragedy: The USS Indianapolis

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No one on board the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) knew anything about the cargo they were carrying. What they did know was that the veteran cruiser (launched in 1931) made the trip from San Francisco to the island of Tinian in the Marianas in just ten days. The USS Indianapolis is shown here off Mare Island on July 10, 1945. Image: NARA The crew was proud of the “Indy”, and for good reason. She had been Admiral Spruance’s flagship for two years, as American forces battled across the Central Pacific from 1943 to 1945. In the summer of 1945, the Indianapolis was made ready for an…

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Beating the Psychological Refractory Period

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The more you ask of your brain, the slower your per-task performance is — with or without a gun. This is known as the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP), but why does it slow you down, especially in a fight for your life? And, how can you reduce the effects of PRP? What is the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) and why does it slow you down, especially in a fight for your life? First published by AT Welford in the British Journal of Psychology in 1952, PRP is defined by the American Psychological Association (ASA) as the period after response to a…

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Mikoyan MiG-29: The Reactive Fulcrum?

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Military aircraft design of the Cold War era could be described as akin to physics, or, more specifically, to Newton’s Third Law of motion, which states, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” From lessons learned in the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force determined it needed both “superior” air superiority fighters and cheaper, agile multi-role fighters. That led to the development of the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, designed to dominate air-to-air combat, and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, which filled the gap as a more versatile, cost-effective fighter. A Polish air force MiG-29 jet…

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