#StingerSaturday

#DidYouKnow that #SkySoldiers can also defend the sky?

#Paratroopers from 1st and 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment fire FIM-92 Stingers during an air defense live-fire exercise alongside soldiers with the Croatian Air Defense Regiment 🇭🇷

https://twitter.com/173rdAbnBde/status/1538096811264643073

On the 70th anniversary of Harvey Julian Allen's "blunt-nose concept" for spacecraft, a solution to the problem of atmospheric re-entry, your #WeekendRead details the way the spaceship got its shape. (via

@SmithsonianMag

's

@andrewchaikin

).

https://twitter.com/US_SpaceCom/status/1538129404081033217