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How Artisans Make Kanihama Shawls
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For Sajjad Ahmad, making shawls is more than just a job—it’s a family identity. For generations, his family living in the small town of Kanihama, located in the Budgam district in the Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir, has created hand-knit masterpieces. These pashmina creations, fashioned from the dyed wool of goats from the nearby Ladakh region, are so central to the village that they’re woven into its very name.
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What do you get when you stick air-to-air missiles on a Cessna? The AC-208!
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What would you get if you took a regular plane, like a Cessna, and just packed it full of the latest combat systems and threw in a few Hellfire missiles for good measure? Well, what you'd get would be the AC-208 Eliminator, and it's America's answer to providing light attack capabilities to partner nations without breaking the bank.
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Made Here: What Goes into Making a $440 Pair of Danner Boots
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Located in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Hood and home to towering Douglas firs, Portland, Oregon is home to some of the biggest names in outdoor apparel. Danner, however, predates them all. “Charles Danner started the company in Wisconsin in 1932. He realized that if he moved the company to the Pacific Northwest, he could sell the same logging boot for $5 a pair for $12 a pair in Portland, Oregon.” Danner’s Senior Manager of Engineering and Quality, Chris Perrotti, tells Popular Mechanics. While some of Danner’s earliest creations were those $12 spike-soled logging boots, the company has grown in the 90 years since and now makes every kind of boot imaginable, including hiking boots, police boots, a pair for one lucky elephant, and military boots, which, because of government contracts, must use materials sourced from the US.
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How America Flew the U-2 Spy Plane off of Aircraft Carriers
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America's U-2 spy plane is famously tough to land. So, the last place you'd expect to find it operating from would be the rolling flight decks of the Navy's aircraft carriers. But believe it or not, it's happened more than once.
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The B-2 Can Carry a 20 Ton Payload 6,000 Miles without Refueling
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Built to give America a decisive advantage in a nuclear war, the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit was the world’s first heavy payload bomber to incorporate a radar-defeating stealth design. With the ability to carry eight times the payload of the F-117 Nighthawk and an un-refueled range of 6,000 nautical miles, the B-2 Spirit is a globe-spanning bomber that lives up to its ghostly name. Despite a 172-foot wingspan and the ability to carry 20 tons of firepower onboard, it’s alleged to be smaller on radar than even America’s F-35. This bomber was so advanced when it entered service in 1997 that today, more than 25 years later, America’s enemies are still trying to catch up. Meet the B-2 Spirit.