I’m really to see you say that there’s no shame in copying what works, most commentors like to pooo poo China for copying the stuff of others. It’s nice to see someone else that feels pretty much the same as I do about copying what others do; I’ve always said that if I were in the same situation I would do the same…

I still maintain that the backseat would be reserved for a WSO and not a passenger, no matter how special they might be. There are also far cheaper and more effecient ways of getting people in theater than in the back seat of a strike fighter. Any F-15E that has its WSO kicked out to make room for a passenger is an…

Apparently not large enough to accomodate an Osprey and there’s still the problem of the exhuast roasting the lawn every time it landed and took off.

How is that irrelevant?

The Navy and Marine Corps don’t use dedicated tankers like the Air Force does, we, instead, use either KC-130s which can be fitted with hoses and a fuel tank/bladder inside the cargo hold or slap on a buddy kit to an F-18 or another F-35. The buddy kit is little more than a pod with a refueling hose in, the controls…

Because it’s too large to fit on the White House lawn and even if it did, the exhaust would burn it to a crisp every time it landed. There’s also the matter of that they are not outfitted as White Tops and were never intended to take over the White Top role.

Because they are too large and the engine exhaust too hot to land on the White House lawn.

You poor soul. In addition to 2 week long CAXs every summer, I also had to spend a couple months there for my MOS school. Lucky for me, I lived in SoCal, so, on my first free weekend I bummed a ride from a classmate and picked up my car from home. After that, every weekend I wasn’t on duty, or my class was denied libo…

I’d imagine though, that being out in the “Stumps” that a lot of what you would consider to be hotties would be considered Sand Wookies by most others. While not as catchy, when I was in we had the term “CAX Babes” or “CAX Hotties” for women, often WMs because we were on CAX and didn’t much exposure to other kinds of…

No to mention that there’s any number of ways to armor a vehicle that does not involve welding. If you don’t mind being a bit cramped you could always line the inside of your with sandbags, something that’s cheap, legal, and easy to come by. Is it ideal, no, but in a pinch it would work, especially if you strip out…

In addition to what the others have said, taking out a tire doesn’t automatically stop the car, it can still roll on its rims for quite a while, it wouldn’t be good for the rims but in this sort of situation I don’t think that would be much of a concern. Taking out the engine block, on the other hand, can stop a car…

But what about people who like to collect things like tanks and APCs? There are people who do that you know, esp. WW II vintage tanks for re-enacting events. Those are fully armored to the point that nothing in any PDs inventory would be able to take out and even though they’ve been de-commissioned (meaning their…

Then I guess the UK is not sane since they allow their people to not only own armored vehicles, but also drive them on the road. The US also allows private citizens to own armored vehicles too, ever hear of the Littlefield collection? One of the largest, privately owned collections of (military) armored vehicles in…

FYI, 7.62 NATO is not 7.62x63, it’s 7.62x51.

Similar concept to the Middle Ages and Renaissance in regards to weapons and armor, contrary to what’s typically shown on TV & in movies people did not typically try to intentionally strike at other people’s armor, esp. when plate armor started to come into play, they tried to go for the gaps in the armor where there…

One minor correction or clarification here, the SR-25/M110 are chambered for 7.62x51/.308 and are based on the AR-10, the big brother and pre-cursor to the M16/AR-15. I could be mistaken but I’m fairly certain that most, if not all, DM use a .308 rifle since it would give them a range advantage over an M16 or M4 in…

How much of that is in the form of military aid though? I’m sure that if you took those numbers away, the number of consumer level firearms being exported to other countries is much lower. Take, for example Canada, do you know they use a version of the M16? In fact, a lot of countries actually use the M16 for their…

I doubt that the back seat of the Strike Eagles on this mission was used for ferrying a passenger, they have a back seat for a speecific reason and ferrying passengers isn’t it. They use the back seat for Weapons System Officer (or whatever the Air Force calls them) whose job is to essentially play bombardier to allow…

How is it not our business? This guy, along with his cronies, cohorts, and allies, are not just interested in their little corner of the Middle East/North Africa, in case you’ve been asleep for the past decade or so, their goal is global jihad. They have actively called, and pulled off, terror attacks on Western…

I think that the Scouts were probably more semi- para-militaristic in its early days but, from what little I know of Scouting, it’s lost a lot of that and is only very vaguely militaristic and only in that they wear uniforms and salute.