To: SLB
Does a weapon that was born in the 19th century and came to maturity in the 20th century still have a role in the 21st?
Aircraft ?
1899 - Wright Brothers test their first powered kite-glider.
1903, December 16 - First powered flight in a manned aircraft at Kittyhawk.
1977 - US Navy unveils its F/A 18 Hornet.
121 posted on
06/18/2005 11:50:49 AM PDT by
pyx
(Rule #1. The LEFT lies. Rule #2. See Rule #1.)
To: pyx
And the F22 (which will be among the last generation of manned fighters.)
125 posted on
06/18/2005 11:53:55 AM PDT by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
To: pyx
The cannon and the rifle were developed somewhere around the 1500's and use basicly the same technology now, five hundred years later.
128 posted on
06/18/2005 12:00:03 PM PDT by
chuckwalla
(the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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