It’s not, it’s named after 5 brothers who all served on the same ship during WW II and were all subsequently killed during one of the battles around Guadalcanal.

We don’t need it now but there’s nothing to say that we might not need something like it down the line later. There are limits to what you can with sattelites and drones; sattelites are predictable and most of the people we want to to look know when and where they’ll be at any given time and how to hide from them,…

200 F-22s isn’t as much as it sounds like. First off, you have to factor how those 200 are spread out which is going to limit how many we can field in any given region. Second, not all 200 are going to be flying at the same time, of those 200 you’re going to have any number of them down for maintenance at any given…

It seems to me that the Russians are good at coming up with the inital ideas but, for some reason, are incapable of taking full advantage of their designs. This seems to be true for every piece of mlitary hardware they design from AKs, to tanks, to MiGs; they come up with the initial design and then somebody else…

If what you’re saying about the engine in the T-14 being derived from the engine that originally powered the T-34 you’d think that the Russians would know better. I have no idea what the logic behind using the same engine but improving it but it sounds only a little better than the Germans thinking it was a good idea…

I think that it’s also worth noting that, as far as Russian tanks go, the Iraqis didn’t get the same T-55s and 72s that the Russian army did, they got “dumbed down” export models that were less capable than their Russian counterparts. I think the same probably goes for their MiGs, made for export models that don’t…

If China were to try to call in our debt we could simply refuse and it hurt them just as badly, if not worse than us. Additionally, any overly aggressive military action would also hurt them economically since their economy is currently built on exporting things overseas, the moment people stop buying Chinese made…

What Japan really needs more of is their population to breed like rabbits. Part of Japan’s problem, at least long term, is that their population is aging and there hasn’t been enough births to keep up with the rate of their people aging and retiring. They need to maintain a certain amount of population growth to…

That’s both true and not true. While China has historically not been that agressive in colonizing all around the world that doesn’t mean that they haven’t been historically expansionistic. What we think of as China today hasn’t always been that way and there are many non-Han Chinese people in China today from way back…

But it’s not the MIC that set out the requirements for for both the ATF and JSF programs, they were put forth by the DoD and the MIC responded in kind. It’s also worth nothing that just because we’re fighting bearded guys in turbans today, it doesn’t mean that we’ll always be fighting bearded guys in turbans. We need…

Oil and natural gas primarily. Ukraine is highly dependent on both coming from Russia as are portions of Europe as well, why do you think Europe was so hesitant on coming down hard on Russia for their stunt with Crimea and their ongoing war with Ukraine? They didn’t want Russia to close of their spigots to them, thus…

That plane looks like it caught some sort of diesease or something.

So, a QIE Bomber then?

That pretty sums it up although I think that it’s also worth adding to that: are you a Sunni? Good. Do you support what we do and/or willing to join us? No? Then die.

Not to mention to, too, and two; or your and you’re.

Yes, like that worked so well during the late ‘30s. Remember Chamberlain and “Peace in our time”? If you remember your history, that was the same approach that the world took when Hitler took back Alsaice and Lorraine from France, took over the Sudetanland, annexed Austria, and took over Czechloslovakia. It wasn’t…

From what I understand, these tactical nukes are meant as bunker busters for those bunkers, or other structures or even caves, that we can’t take out with a conventional weapon. Another potential target for a tactical nuke are factories/facilities that produce chemical and/or biological weapons, sure a JDAM could take…

I think what LM sold the military brass on was that it would save time and/or money if they developed the tech while they were building the planes and the military brass actually thought that that was a good idea and went ahead with it. Of course, it didn’t help that what they wanted kept on changing throughout its…

The difference is, they weren’t trying to develop all the systems and tech for the F-16 while they were building it, everything was more or less ready to go by the time the first production F-16 rolled off of the assembly line. With the F-35, they’re still figuring out/developing things while it’s being built so as…

You mean like this?