You win this round GreenN_Gold... you win this round. Hahahaha!

How is THIS not in the grey!? WTF Kinja!? Really. REALLY!?

When the wheels are *not* actively slipping on the surface, use mu of static friction. Damn quick-typing-errors.

Proofreading... you got me again!

tau = r X F

Translation: Torque is a cross product of force time the length of the arm.

Translation of the translation: Get wrench. Push any part of that handle. Multiply that force (but only the force perpendicular to the handle of the wrench, on the same plane of rotation) times the distance from the center of…

Those rocks would change your center of gravity significantly.

I think inside my cranium there is more or less... the vast vacuum of spaaaaaaace.

Whenever the wheels are actively spinning out, you would use the mu of static friction. Once the wheels start spinning on the surface you would use the (wildly variable in this case) mu of dynamic friction.

Both.

Also, coefficient of static friction, coefficient of dynamic friction, center of gravity, moment of inertia, etc.

FOR SCIENCE!

I think in heaven, ATC must be perfect and with no wait times and comm issues... Plus I hear most pilots only make this trip once in a lifetime.

/// But our ladies make the trip multiple times. Amirite!? Giggidy.

Always a terrible tragedy to lose someone, especially when they were trying to do something noble. I can see it being a demanding position though. Single pilot, quite low altitude (no real chance to recover) at times, with a large load... that gives a real short period to respond to emergencies —- that's a tough…

Like Michael said, it's right by the border. Hell, the center of town is probably 1-1.2km from the Turkish side.

I love this because this is like precision-flying a lethal BUS.

'Murrica.

What guys on the ground need, is something that can do both pinpoint offense (with a chain gun or similar), big damage with big targets (Carries hellfires or other guided munitions), and has a good loiter time for maximum support.

Loiter time is where most fall short, to include the Apache.

No real news since the last series of updates. The Air Force still wants to retire them (pretty much since its inception) and they keep toting that the F22 can do the same job (it can't) and that they will still do the CAS (Close Air Support) mission.

No fixed wing asset does CAS better than the A10 right now. The…

The A10's arrive in October.

It's going to be just like Octoberfest, except instead of beer, there will be lots of GAU-8. And instead of lederhosen, it'll be flight suits, and... and... I guess it'll be nothing like Octoberfest.

Well, there *may* be the occasional guy rubbing his head and saying "What did I do last…

Grenade launchers:
The are utilized for the same-sized non-lethal CS grenade rounds. You know... the ones that make our eyeballs water uncontrollable and our nose spew mucus.

MRAPs:
Police forces that seek the armored vehicles want these because THEY ARE WAAAAAAAAY CHEAPER than buying "new" armored trucks.

Neither of…

We have more aircraft at a single training facility than most nations have in their entire fleet(s).

I cannot express how small my level of "worry" is.

Side note: I think these are the right tools in the right place for the Iraqis. I hold no grudge against Russian designs or their manufacturers. Hell, Sikorsky was...…

As soon as it hits the torrents... I haz car.

... possibly a car with a virus... so it might take a couple of attempts.

They are fellow English-speaking individuals. We surely have the right to annex them democratically... you know... with our soldiers guarding ballot locations... and choices on the ballot limited to "Join the U.S.!" or "Become an Independent Nation (run by the U.S.)"

And those weren't OUR Abrams tanks. They were…

I read one of these segments as "Does the President wear a bacon device..."

My first three thoughts in the order they occurred:
1. Why does he have a bacon tracking device!?
2. Why don't *I* have a bacon-tracking device! I must go to Amazon!
3. Wait... I have a fricken nose AND I am a damned man. A bacon-loving man!…

1. Yeah, bit too fast/confident. The road out there is shiiiiiiitty too. Last time I was out there, there were enough potholes that you don't really want to go above 20 in a passenger vehicle.
2. Dude probably didn't get fired.
3. As a former driver myself, his mistake was probably the same I've made: Check the…