No. You originally responded because you’re an idiot.

The TT terrifies me. Saw videos like this for years and it always amazed me the speed and balls involved. Then I drove it in a spirited auto (Porsche Cayman) and it just amazed and scared me even more for these guys. That road is absolute madness. I didn’t get to tear through the city obviously w/out closures but even…

As far as crazy (and a great rider) this oldie is still pry the best.

Because Gawker is a bastion of journalistic integrity! Pftt

Yeah, them paving through the rain really caught my eye.

How about paving through that rainstorm which looks like it was a big storm/all night affair?

Pretty darn impressive. I worked quality control for a couple of massive US companies (Lafarge and then Martin Marietta when they bought out all Lafarge assets in Colorado) and some of this looks like witchcraft. Im most familiar with paving operations and it looks like they paved through a rainstorm in one night. The…

You’re a dunce. It’s not meaningless. It shows how much we spend compared to our GDP. Important for illustrating, to people like you, that we actually spend, as a percentage of our GDP, less than about half a dozen other countries. Cost is relative. But then you’d have to give up on the “...but, but... we spent more…

The crazies have taken over the asylum. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for trying ;)

It has a very thin layer of gold sprayed over it (and some other stuff). The term or code for it is “Have Glass”. Went on the F-16 originally. That alone reduced the Viper’s RCS by some 15%.

Los Angeles class subs? C’mon guy. The Virginia’s are right there. And that’s neglecting the most terrifying attack submarines ever built...the Seawolfs. What a thing to scrimp on funds for.

That is exactly what IOC means. Too many people think IOC means “ready for combat”. That isn’t the definition and never has been. Context and all that...

This needs to come out of the greys for the sake of posterity.

I stood next to various combat controllers (JTACs/CCTs/TACPs/etc) during some of the F-35's very first forays into CAS-type scenarios. They did fine. Training isn’t real world but calling for fire/sending a 9-line etc can be trained very, very realistically.

I KNOW the F-35 can provide A-10 quality CAS on an even or superior level. I twiddled my fucking thumbs a dozen times waiting on A-10s.

This is horrendous. Hey Gawker, churning out anti-F-35 and pro-A-10 articles by the boatload won’t save this blog. Other than ripping this article apart piece by piece, (which most of you have seen me do with regards to F-35 content) I don’t even know where to start. Just gonna leave it there.

Ladies and gentleman, this window licking idiot is what’s wrong with the F-35 program. They are keeping the populace in the loop and as a result we comments like this.

I think that all of them are on YouTube. There’s dozens of them plus their offshoot programs. One was called Wings of the Red Star (obviously about Russian aircraft but still really great to watch) and the other revolved around carrier borne aircraft but I can’t remember it’s official title.

Where’d you read this? In a book? I’d love to find and read it also.

I studied a couple different from of MA while growing up. Then spent about a decade in the Army and progressed up to being a lvl 3 combatives instructor. Also took quite a few courses, while in uniform, that were taught by civilians all over the world specifically for elite military and law enforcement. I’m pretty…