So if A-10s aren’t viable on a battlefield against a first world opponent, what does that say about big helicopters?

You win.

Dude, it’s a fucking airbase potentially surrounded by thousands of hidden cruise missiles, minutes, or maybe seconds away.

I give the USAF a hard time about their unwillingness to provide CAS lately, but I sure as shit would hate to be on one of those “islands” when they got the green light.

Thank you

12 miles?

I dunno.

It allegedly led to Mike Tomlin being hired by some guy whose name escapes me right now.

Reason #371 for my vasectomy.

That better be a Vinnie Jones joke.

I keep looking for a duffel blog link in these stories.

I think that’s one of my uncles’ names in New York.

I’d managed to block that application from my mind hoping it would just go away.

Didn’t stop them from building Ospreys.

I’m going to need one of you guys with too much education to tell me why we don’t have military vehicles with ducted fans.

Additional lift.

Weaponized

I like it. The Happiest Hour this side of the sun!

I was referring to large, artificial emp, and the fact that our data set seems to be consist of one event, and the fact that the USSR went so far as to build their front line jets with tubes to mitigate the effects.

Yeah, the difference between fission and fusion, is the difference between orbiting earth and mars.