I guess that could be considered a poor man’s mortar.

At last check the idea was to have all gear in a 4th pattern that would compliment their 3 uniform camo patterns. I don’t know if that’s still the plan or if they plan on doing the Marine Corps thing or producing everything in OCP since, as a transitional pattern, should work reasonably well with both a woodland and a…

The Army is supposed to be working on bookend patterns to compliment/supplement OCP for operations in forest and desert environments. However, so far, there has been no word on the development of said bookends yet, of course, the Army hasn’t even fully fielded OCP yet so one could argue that it’s a little early yet…

FYI, Tyler, there’s a typo in the caption under the pic of the Sea Dragon recovering the EOD sled, it’s ordnance, not ordinance.

I think that lock on may be considered agressive but not necessarily hostile, it would probably depend a lot on the exact details of the RoE. As far as targetting goes, I think that an F-22 can use an incoming signal as a lock on for its own missiles, enough for a heading and trajectory to launch an AIM-120 and then…

It was an F-117 and our stealth tech has evolved considrably since then as well. On top of that, there were several mitigating circumstances leading to the F-117 being shot down, not the least of which was flying the same route in and out of its target area every time it flew.

That’s what I find so interesting about this, ISIS and Al Qaeda hate each other so why are they trying to order a hit on the man who killed the former head of Al Qaeda?

While I agree that the US and our allies haven’t accomplished a whole lot in Syria except burning a lot of avgas and expending a ton of ordnance I’m not sure that the Russians have accomplished a whole lot more. I mean, it’s not like we’ve heard anything suggesting that the rebels are on the run now, or that Assad’s…

The thing is, once you stop producing things in a factory after a certain amount of time there’s no bringing it back. Even though GD produced more than just Tomahawks, that plant almost certainly produces only Tomahawks, and once it stops producing them that plant and its personnel is converted over to producing…

When did the Russians start using regular caliber cannons? By regular I mean something that’s divisible by 5, previously they always seemed to use oddball calibers like 23mm, or 37mm. Not that it matters I suppose but I’ve always liked cannon calibers that are divisible by 5, it’s just much neater in my mind that way.

It’s not the Corp’s fault, blame the genius who thought it was a good idea that you could make a STOVL and a non-STOVL plane using the same basic airframe; that’s where the fault lays. The base F-35 design would have been much better if they had just made the B its own separate plane with little to nothing to do with…

None, since we don’t have a railgun or lasers in production yet, they’re both still in the testing phases and not yet ready for actual deployment. That’s not to say that I don’t like your idea, I think it’s pretty cool but even if we wanted to, we’re definitely a good ways away from making it a reality.

I’d argue that modernized Teen series fighters would give us cost effective stop gap replacements for our current legacy fighters until something better can be designed and produced. They probably wouldn’t be quite as good as the F-35 should be but would be better than their predecessors.

The same thing happened in Afghanistan, the government then supported the Russians coming in.

Depending on when this happened and what model F-4, the black smoke coming from the engines would have been normal. Lots of jets from the ‘60s smoked like chimneys and (I think) the B-52 still does from all 8 of its engines.

I’m sure that making them out of AR500 steel would pretty well, especially if you added a gambeson made from kevlar underneath.

Whose to say that their cuirasses and helmets aren’t made from AR500 steel and have a kevlar lining on the inside?

The original Porshce Tiger was probably the most technologically advanced tank ever built with its hybrid engine technology but the Henschel Tiger that entered service wasn’t all that sophisticated. It was overengineered and underpowered and, in some ways, less sophisticated than tanks like the Panther and the T-34…

I wouldn’t say that. There’s a pretty high demand for Western goods in China, although that’s more a of a luxury than anything. But aside from that, they’d probably love to be able to get their hands on our oil and other natural resources, which is why they’ve been so busy being nice in Africa, to get at resources…

I agree with your point although I’d argue that the Germans didn’t really have the superior hardware, at least not in tanks which is a lot of people tend to think of when they think of WW II German tech. The difference between the Germans and the Allies (including Russia) is that the Germans tended to prefer…