The SteelNavy.Com Message Board: Re: Navy USVs come in all sizes...

Well, when I swipe up, I get the caption below it, and also your name at the top with two arrows pointing to each other, which is "reduce size." When I click that, the whole thing drops away, and I find myself on your flickr site, and all your images are available. I select an image, hit "view image," and get an URL. Cutting/pasting that gets me these, which a test post preview has shown me I can open, though no longer with captions. Simple .jpg URLs.

Interestingly to me, now that I have previewed and seen these images this way, I went back to your original links to check on something and they work for me now. The image comes up and stays. Don't ask me how or why this works. I just find it does. 😀 (Probably now have the images in my cache, so my phone is displaying them for me that way. A tip from long ago from Tracy White, who actually understands all that stuff. He explained that, once you've viewed an image, your device caches it and uses that, not the link directly. Seems to me like whst has just happened.)

GARC:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55447433307_bc753ef474_w.jpg

Corsair:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55448737540_b565573014_w.jpg

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I'm on an Android phone. That's often part of it. Lots of stuff is for laptops, etc., or better optimized for them. I certainly don't know for sure what my issue is either. I'm barely functional with all this tech stuff, and real details of how it all function are beyond me. I'm not super worried. Each time I close them then reopen, I get a several-second view of the images. Not enough to study details, but I have seen the images. Very probably my phone is not configured correctly somehow, and I am too clueless on how I "was supposed to" have set it up. Jeez, I bought it expecting it to work. Then discovered there were multiple settings and options. I haven't fiddled with much. The problem's almost certainly me and my equipment. Not to worry on your part. No biggee.

USVs are the future here now.

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interesting, we logged out of the website and tried both the original link and the link with the full screen option turned off, and both worked fine as they have for other folks so not sure where the issue lies.

of course, we know there are scores of the smaller usvs in service (GARCs and Corsairs) and they truly are being used in autonomous combat situations - Corsairs for example attacked an Iranian submarine base earlier this year.