In Koblenz kann (... konnte? ...) man nicht nur den Starfighter F 104 G in all seiner Pracht und Herrlichkeit betrachten, sondern in der 3. Etage der Wehrtechnischen Studiensammlung auch das komplette Tragheitsnavigationssystem LN-3.
In Koblenz, you can (... could? ...) not only view the F 104 G starfighter in all its "glory and splendor", but on the 3rd floor of the "Defense Technology Study Collection" you also can see the complete LN-3 inertial navigation system.
Sofern die Koblenzer Sammlungsausstellung beibehalten bleibt, was dringend zu hoffen ist, lohnt sich der Besuch generell.
Provided that the Koblenz collection exhibition is maintained, which it is urgently to be hoped for, the visit is generally worthwhile.
You
don't have to be a weapons geek to recognize and to be unreservedly recognizant of engineering art from ancient and modern times.
The resistance to weapons technology is only understandable to a certain extent. From generation to
generation ideologically based aggression, exclusion, anti-empathy, misanthropic attack and hatred happens again. Not only natural
disasters are ineradicable. So thank once to the technicians, to whom we owe besides peace and luxury technology also
technical resistance, instead of having to defend ourselves by biting and throwing stones. Seek peace and pursue
it the ancient Benedictine rule. In the Apocrypha of the Old Testament we read Kohelet: "Like one who reaches for shadows
and chases the wind, so is one who relies on (pacifist) dreams."
For: "What will be done will be done again, what one has done,
one will do again. There is nothing new under the sun."
That for ever will remain this way ...