How do you idiots turn this into yet another democrat vs republican pissing match?

Good article Tyler.

I had a PhD in destroying Glocks while banging them off of a wall while jumping compound walls in Iraq and other places. Always had issues keeping them perfect in austere environments.

Most military equipment has actually been EMP shielded for decades.

Absolutely. Sukhoi readily admits that the T-50 isn’t meant to be able to handle the Raptor on an even basis. The J-20 and J-31 are even less impressive. They’re more propaganda tool than capable 4+gen (much less 5th gen) airframe.

Yawn. Every sovereign country the U.S. has been in is guess what, still a sovereign country. 99% of the time the U.S. is in these places at the behest of the local government. Understanding a minute fraction of American policy would be a good start for you. But, understanding anything as opposed to just regurgitating…

American minds? I’ve lived and worked on almost every continent. The U.S. is far better at ruling their own borders than most of the world. Ever been to Africa? What about the Balkans? How about S. America or Eastern Europe? There’s a really interesting place called the Middle East.

This entire comment section is moronic amateur hour. Good job.

No they can’t. This isn’t the Cold War. Not only are their aircraft shy of parity, but they’re completely outnumbered. That old thought process that they can put ten aircraft in the air for every one we can is 110% erroneous.

Exactly. As I understand it they can’t restart production without going through massive amounts of basically designing it all over again. They intentionally destroyed the capability simply so there was no possible way certain technologies could be compromised shy of losing an actual airframe.

I would bet they do, at least on some level. Even if it’s just sharing a half chuckle or rolling of the eyes. My last gig before I left uniform was serving on a well-known, theatre-level commander’s PSD team (security). We’d share a laugh over our particular boss’s foibles when smoking and joking with our foreign…

Yeah I think it’s pretty over the top. I’m in Belgrade atm and the only news I can catch on Sky, BBC, and Eurovision is about the combined security situation in the U.S. because of the Pope and Xi.

Quit being an idiot.

The Ford is fine. IOC doesn’t happen for another year and flight ops aren’t scheduled to commence for an additional year after that.

Where the fuck did you even come from? I’ve seen you trolling around like a moron for awhile now. Go away mouth-breather, everything you post is painfully stupid.

Are you really that stupid?

Every landing is graded, regardless of conditions. I agree with your overall point though.

I remember that sandstorm. I’ve got some pretty amazing pictures around here somewhere of it. While I knew it shut down airpower, I had no idea that it was doing so from actual carriers and airfields. I figured it was just the battlespace. Cheers on neat post.

Hahah thanks. If there is a badass scale im easily a one on a scale of ten though. Years later, I’m not so sure being a one is worth it when you’re still years away from being 40 but when you get up in the morning everything creaks and hurts. Thanks for the compliment :)

What? I spend a decade in uniform, most of it with an elite unit I was never paid anything near “a premium”. Rofl you have no clue what you’re talking about.