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10 years ago @ Defense Tech - Analyst: Russian MiG-2... · 1 reply · +2 points

A single engine fighter, designed to rely on stealth, at the expense of flight performance, won't do well against twin engine fighters designed for close-in dog fighting, in a dog fight. The entire F-35 community has been up front about that from the start of the program. The F-35 is not a dog fighter. The F-35 is also years late in it's development, giving potential adversaries ample opportunity to develop countermeasures.

12 years ago @ Defense Tech - U.S. Plans to Build a ... · 0 replies · +6 points

SCUD hunters, rejoice!

12 years ago @ Defense Tech - Pentagon: Hypersonic N... · 0 replies · +2 points

We do not need to go to war with Russia. In Russia, war goes to you. Realistically, it's always been our hardware vs their hardware. That's where foreign relations with dictators and warlords who have strategic minerals is justified. All that stuff is just mud in the ground until we invent some technology that needs a lot of it and thus creates high value. Technology creates high value for the third world's mud. The third world is the third world because nobody knew the value those resources until recently, otherwise they would have been fighting over it centuries ago.

12 years ago @ Defense Tech - Pentagon: Hypersonic N... · 2 replies · +3 points

I'm willing to bet that dealing with 1980's export quality Russian hardware in Iraq is different than dealing with Russian IADS on the Russian border, backed up by the Russian Air Force.

12 years ago @ Defense Tech - Pentagon: Hypersonic N... · 4 replies · +3 points

Wait. We just bet everything on Stealth and it won't defeat IADS?

12 years ago @ Defense Tech - Soviet Tanks As Far As... · 0 replies · +1 points

At last, we can make the movie "Red Storm Rising" in Germany, with a real tank army.

12 years ago @ DoD Buzz - McCain: F-35 among the... · 0 replies · +1 points

Builds F-22. Tries to build "low cost" variant in three different versions for half the price. Gets upset and makes rambling speeches when never been used before technology turns out to be immature. Trying to use software to solve hardware problems is hard.

12 years ago @ Defense Tech - Army to Shrink Robot F... · 1 reply · +6 points

Nobody WANTED to grab a flashlight and pistol then go crawling into a tunnel. It was just another job that needed to be done. If you were small enough to fit, "lucky you".

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The New Blacklist: How... · 0 replies · +2 points

Triumph of the Will was a political movie. Act of Valor is an Action movie.

To be Nazi style propaganda, we would have to see Uberbama and Herr Biden as central figures.

The producers, reasonably, went to great lengths to avoid connecting either of them to the SEALS successes.

SEALS are selected and trained exhaustively, Presidents are elected with or without qualification.

If the SEALS were run like a Presidential cabinet, this movie would be a dark, tragic comedy.

14 years ago @ Big Peace - British Veteran Detain... · 0 replies · +6 points

“If I was wearing this scarf over my face, I wonder what would happen.”

Well, now you know what would happen. I've had to bear much for asking reasonable questions about authority.

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