Exactly. Sure, our current fleet of Teen series aircraft are some of the best out there but both our friends and rivals have not been sitting still all of these years and have come out with new aircraft since we first started fielding our current fleet of aircraft and are rapidly catching up to us, if not surpassed us…

By light aircraft I think that they mean a (relatively) small and (relaitvely) light single engine aircraft like the Cessna that just crashed. There’s probably an FAA reg that designates aircraft below a certain weight as a light aircraft. If it was an ultralight they would have said as much.

It’s entirely possible, it wouldn’t be the first time this sort of oversight has happened. But I don’t think it was materials failure, at least not in the sense that the vest wouldn’t float, from what the article said, it wouldn’t inflate, meaning that there was something wrong with either the CO2 capsule that’s used…

I I’m not mistaken, S-92 is the internal Sikorski or civilian designation for the helo while H-92 is the generic military designation. I say generic because, depending on the role, there could be any number of letters that go in front of the H; off the top of my head it could have a C, V, H, S, M, or even A.

Most likely because SABOTs are the primary round of modern MBTs and SABOTs don’t need rifling.

We do this because we’re interested in maintaining status quo, by that I mean we want to keep our technological advantage over all of our rivals and potential enemies. We enjoy a definite edge right now but that edge is rapidly starting to wear away little by little and if we don’t advance our tech then we’ll lose our…

On a similar note, sometimes a little pork is needed in order to keep these companies afloat so that we maintain the knowledge base and expertise. If we let these aerospace companies fold or shutter their military division(s) what do you think happens to all of the people they employed and their skills and knowledge?…

There’s just one problem with that number and that’s not all 186 will be available at the same time and certainly not all in the same place. Of that 186 you’re going to have to factor in a certain number that are down for maintenance, then there’s another bunch of them that are likely being reserved for training…

The problem with EW is that it’s an active system and once you turn it on your enemy knows that something is coming, they may not know where or how many but they’ll know that something’s out there and they can try to burn through your EW. The beauty of stealth is that it’s passive and there are no emissions to give…

I think that there’s some real misconceptions about dogfighting here, dogfighting does not mean using your gun, it means maneuvering against an opponent in order to gain an advantage and either a weapons lock for your missile(s) or getting him in front of your guns. The problem with the lack of maneuverability is that…

It was the early models of the F-4, the A-4 is attack craft with no missile capability but carried bombs and had a pair of 20mm cannons.

It wasn’t a failure in evcauation procedure, the article mentions that there wasn’t time enough to deploy the raft. The real problem is that their flotation vests didn’t work and that there (apparently) wasn’t some of quick release mechanism on their body armor so they could ditch it quickly in the case of an…

But it wasn’t Germany who was building these, it was Italy and Italian forces during WW II were never near as capable as the Germany’s. One of their biggest contributins to WW II was dragging Germany into North Africa in order to save their butts.

I’d argue that it wasn’t so much the German Army as much as Hitler. I’m sure that a good number of Nazi Germany’s more insane weapons ideas came from the military but Hitler had his hand in the creation, or at least design in more than his fair share of them. The other thing is, even if Germany had not focused so much…

The 74 is the successor to the more well known AK-47 and chances are that most of the time when people mention the AK-47 the rifle in question is actually a 74.

It’s been done before, several times in fact, look up TAOFLADERAMAUS on YouTube, he’s shot stacks of hard drives with various rifles in various calibers including an AR in 5.56, a Mosin Nagant, and M1 Garand. The results are quite impressive and seems like a very effective and fun way of disposing of hold hard drives,…

It’s things that I’ve read, mostly here I think. One thing you have to remember about the Osprey is that while the fuselage may not be all that much larger than the H3 it easily has close to, if not, double the rotor radius due to how large they are and how far out they sit.

Because, like all mechanical things, esp. military equipment they only last so long, even with SLEPs and other upgrades; things, break, get worn to the point that it’s too expensive to be worth replacing/fixing. The other matter is simply metal fatigue, a sub is, in some ways, a lot like a plane with a pressurized…

Probably for the same reasons that we had a shuttle.

There’s no doubt that the Soviets stole a lot but to say that everything in their Air Force is a copy of one of our planes is a bit of a stretch. One plane that I know is not a copy of anything of ours that I can name right off the bat is the MiG-25, we actually came up with the F-15 to combat the MiG-25.