Not really when you look at how much better the same basic systems are when built by Russia’s neighbors and allies. Russian tanks built by Ukranians seem to be better than their Russian counterparts and seem to sell better too. I’ve heard of AKs built by former Warsaw Pact nations considered to be better than Russian…

They explained it in the article, by making the interior dry would mean making the vechicle much larger and complicated because the SEALs would have to enter and exit through a complicated air lock system. Remember, these aren’t traditional mini-subs in the sense that the operators get in an out only on dry land,…

There’s that and there’s the fact that we just don’t have that many of them and no more are coming so why risk the (relatively) few and expensive F-22s that we have when a legacy F-15 or F-16 can do the job at hand just as well.

Yes, but the difference is that we have a lot more of the other planes and so does the rest of their with theirs. The problem with the number of F-22s is that there’s just not enough of them. Like I said before, nearly 200 sounds like a lot on paper, but once you look at the break down of those numbers you realize…

Really? You honestly believe that or are you just being sarcastic? Air power alone has never won a war, any war. Sure, the Allies bombed the crap out of Germany during WW II but you know what, they still kept on going and it took the presence of Russian troops in Berlin to finally get Germany to surrender and that…

I doubt it, even if it is, it’s a lousy comparison since King Tigers were not exactly a stunning example of German engineering. All German tanks from the Tiger on were notoriously unreliable and more of them were lost to mechamical problems than to enemy action. The biggest problem were the engine and transmission…

Even if he could, he’d have a hard time trying to arm the Panther with 88mm shells considering that it was armed with a 75mm gun. Pendantics aside, you do make for a very good point, like 88mm and 75mm shells aren’t exactly to come by and he can’t exactly make them at home in his garage either, not very easily at…

Al Qaeda didn’t come about because of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, & Libya, they were before things started happening there and we actually in Iraq, in part, because of them. What the recent instability in the ME did result in was ISIS, they came about because of the chaos in the region.

FYI it’s captial, with an A, not capitol, as in the de facto ISIS capital. Here’s the difference according to Grammarist.com:

Part of it is because the Russians like to have all of their weapons showing on the decks while we prefer to have them, aside from the gun(s), hidden below deck. Even before we adopted the VLS system all you would see of the missile launchers on most of our ships would be just the launcher itself while the missiles…

Since we’re on the subject of grammar/spelling, it’s ordnance not ordinance, or did you mean to suggest that the Russians were keeping live laws and regulations on their ships?

Do a google search for air shows, there’s bound to more than a few sites out there that track all of the airshows that take place nation wide. Most Air Force, Marine & Navy Air Stations put on air shows every year as well as some air museums.

Nah, you’re thinking of the MiG-29.

We are guilty vor the F-35B but not the entire F-35 program, that was the fault of the SecDef who actually thought it would be possible to combine 3 different aircraft into one base airframe. The whole JSF program should have only included that A & C models starting from the C and stripping down to make the A, the B…

Agreed, what a lot of Marine Corps critics don’t understand is that the Corps is much than just a force that does amphibious landings or more to say, more than just amphibious landings. We offer the US a lot of flexibility and allows the US to send upwards of a division’s worth of troops, tanks, artillery, and…

I don’t know, given some of the garbage that passes for TV shows these days the Norks might prefer things to be the way they are after seeing things like “Keeping up with the Kardashians” or any of the other god awful reality shows airing these days.

Maybe that’s because they’re mannequins.

Very interesting, I had no idea that many Russian tanks were really Ukranian designs adopted by the Russians, I always thought it was the opposite. Thanks for the info.

But not all of them will be available in the same place at one time is my point, which brings down the number closer to 100 than 200. And the other thing to consider is that it was intended to replace the F-15 as the USAF’s frontline fighter, a plane that is good but is getting long in the tooth and the fleet is…

The F-35 wasn’t the Corps’ fault, it was the DoD/SecDef that forced the USAF, USMC, & USN to use the same base platform. All 3 wanted a new aircraft to replace aging ones in their inventory and the SecDef went and told them that they all had to use the same basic airplane instead of 2 or 3 different ones in the belief…