I understand all the benefits. It can do amazing things.

Sir, may I suggest that if you’d been issued a mustache as spectacular as Roar Strand’s, these mechanical failures might not have occurred?

They won’t do it too many times, that’s for damn sure.

That made me throw up. Just so wrong.

Jesus. Don’t ever post that picture again.

Makes high fives easier.

As has been pointed out to me in a few places, this is actually military training.

Well played!

The follow up question is, does the Navy care?

In other words, these high-end attack helicopters, when properly equipped, are far more suited for a battlefield with a MANPADS threat present than their predecessors.

Exactly how much do you think a CH-53K is costing, btw?

What?

Good luck, China.

Yeah, I’m drunk, and the whole heavy water bucket slung under the aircraft having military training applications hadn’t occurred to me.

I was going to give you shit because slinging a heavy load of water is really dangerous, and has no analogous military application for this aircraft.

a CH-53K is estimated at $92 million per example.

Not expensive enough.

I’m not sure how things work down under, but us Yanks don’t believe in letting things burn.

Not cost effective?