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Just like BQZip's mother.

"I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins. It was Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering. And they were blazing that shit up every day."

...and that's the ONLY way those fucking dorks will ever pick up a girl.

Nothing intelligent to say (one of those nights), just a pic. Marines B last spring at Cherry Point.

Tyler Rogoway is a joke. The intellectual dishonesty is just silly. Let's see, the common cell phones in 2000 were digital not analog, remember the Nokia's with the swapable faces? The one he mentioned was introduced in 1996. Then claiming that to be fully mission ready it needs the "super weapon" SDB2 is also patently false. Will it not be fully mission ready until it integrates the mini missile (CUDA is one example) that is basically at the good idea fairy stage right now? Where does it end? So in reality: TD flight in 2000, First flight 2006, IOC 2016 (F-35A), "full warfighting capability" planned for 2017 delivery in LRIP 9. Even if we slip that to 2018, that's 12 years not even close to "almost 20 years." Then he jumps to a "30+ year cycle to get a weapons system as originally envisioned;" I can envision ejection seats that boost pilots into low earth orbit to make them easier to recover in an A2AD environment, doesn't mean it's realistic to get that inside of 30 years or even the laws of physics. The program has been plagued with enough delays and problems, there's no reason to inflate them and confuse the issue with hyperbole and dishonesty. I don't dis-agree that we need to change the way we acquire widgets. The pace of technology advancement demands it. The first iPhone was introduced in 2007, based on some simple internet searching and not even close to subject matter expertise, I figure my phone (today) has pretty close to the computing power of my laptop from 2007. It seems to me that we have a mis-match in the way software runs on our aircraft versus the way industry has progressed. I think one possible solution is to have a DoD standard operating system, and each airframe's software is essentially an "app" that runs on that operating system. Set aside some amount of space on every airframe for a "mission computer" then as OS upgrades demand it, every airframe gets upgrades to that space. If one airframe needs more computing power, it sets aside multiples of that computer so it can do parallel computing or whatever. Tangent rant over, the F-35 will be a jack of all trades and a master of none. Just like it was always intended to be.

Before he calls anyone, tell him to spend some time researching www.specialtactics.com. Then he can be reasonably well informed before asking stupid questions.

Holy shit. M2 just posted a picture that wasn't broken. AND it was (almost) funny. Unprecedented!

The truth.