You contradict yourself with every sentence. Are you really trying to whine about services veterans have EARNED while at the same time advocating for an overwhelming amount of free entitlements? You don’t see the absolute load of shit you’re trying to spew? For someone that is supposedly so educated, you sure come…

One of the FDs I bought had a tow hook. The seller pulled it off so it was unnoticeable unless you looked under the rear bumper. If you did that you’d see the mount. I asked him why and what he’d been towing with it.

Michael do you REALLY believe this has more to do with hiding cost than defense concerns? Wowzers.

Preach. Obviously there is some stuff they could safely release but they’re 100% right by saying tons of parameters and specs could be gleaned by releasing numbers. Bare minimum, it would give a lot of people a fantastic place to start. When dealing with people like the MSS or KGB FSB that’s already faaar too much…

What did you do to earn said benefits? The US was never intended to have a tenth of the free hand outs we have now (in fact the forefathers argued against that very thing...and won) and you want to add to it?

Don’t push it. With the idiocy that’s rampant around here you’ll have a plethora of tools saying what a grand idea that is.

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

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.