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The mission is to retrieve the 10mm these chicks dropped a while back.

What you were looking for was Darth Gayer

With canards. So it's a fighter with training wheels AND a backseat driver...

Over/under on the number of Mark 48 firing solutions there were on that Type 055 cruiser during that entire event? I'd guess at least 3.

FIFY

Performance issues? It's not uncommon. 1 in 5 I'm told.

Most likely GLS. Pretty cool and virtually transparent to the operating pilots. We're encountering more and more in the international realm. Uses a highly accurate GPS ground station at the airport to tell the airplane exactly where it is. Same freqs as ILS without the transmitter sidelobes, so no false glideslopes. RUMINT has it that Russia started using a several of these because they are easier to install and maintain in remote locations...but long-haul pilot RUMINT worth the price you pay to get it. As to Trump's comment, it seems like he doesn't make stuff up completely out of thin air. He simply overhears a conversation that he knows nothing about, then turns around and talks like he knows everything on the topic. So basically the same 10% rule surrounding every pilot story ever told.

Not in the budget yet. But this will be my home defense in near(ish) future. https://www.sigsauer.com/sig-mcx-canebrake.html

The butt, that's where he hurt a lot of people. Repeatedly.

I'll bite. Why is he better?

For someone who doesn't like him, you sure sound awfully familiar the man's wedding tackle.

BQZip's mom, who was there cheering on her daughter.

watching that big bird do drops like that never gets old

That explains quite a bit. I gave a dude a one line feedback about the timing of a meme. It's @arg and I'm pretty sure he can handle it. Unbunch your panties dude.

Thanks for sharing that! That's wild on a bunch of levels

Noted. If this joke had been made about Floridians by a Californian during a hurricane, the responses would have been different. Satire's timing is almost more important than it's content. I thoroughly agree with the content of the post. The timing is horrible...saying nothing about the fact that this is the "Lighten Up Francis" thread. Just keep scrolling if you don't like my sense of propriety and respect for people in the middle of life or death struggles.

Dude. People are actively fighting to save their lives. Poor form.

which I'm sure will have no built-in capabilities to rapidly de-construct itself across the canal. Likewise. I'm am very glad we've got an active president coming it. I sincerely hope he's got some solid minders to properly vector all the thrust.

We could call it Operation Just Cuz

I find it interesting how few people recognize the asian situation from the asian perspective. Japan, Korea, the PI, Thailand, Vietnam ALL have a LOT more options than US or no US. They can just as easily comply and submit to the Chinese by way of not interfering with Chinese expansion. For an extreme example: Imagine what would happen if Japan decided that the US can't use offensive forces from Okinawa anymore. Yes, that's an extreme example that IMO will NOT happen, but options like that do exist for all these countries. Consider what would happen if the PI came to it's own agreement with the Chinese where they simply refuse US basing rights in particular places for mild territory concessions by China. All these countries have their own agendas, and they all view 'sovereignty' in a very different way than we do. The list of these kinds of 'what ifs' is endless. In general, if they observe the US taking steps away from treaties, agreements or promises made in other places, their confidence in our will to come to their aid could degrade, driving them to seek other options to secure their own interests. It's very dynamic and every single one of these countries has their own interest in mind, and being allied with the US is far from being a catch-all solution from their perspective.

...and that analysis is the standard by which second and third order effects are ignored. One small example: What happens with our relationship with Japan, S Korea, or the Philippines if we walk away from NATO? Will they willingly lay it down for us against China if they know we've become transactional with our loyalty? If we aren't loyal to our promises, what possible incentive do they have to oppose Chinese expansion?

Anyone here qual'd on the 73 able to say if it's supposed to rest nose down after a gear up? From watching that video a couple times, it looked like a VERY long touchdown and that the wings and elevator were definitely still flying when they departed the surface.

I'll bet that thing is about as stealthy as BQzip's mom on a friday night at AJ's.