It’s simple, the Army doens’t have the manpower to be in both Iraq and Afghanistan at the same and still keep their commitments elsewhere as well as allow for units to rotate back home for some well deserved downtime. So the Marine Corps gets ordered to step in and help out at the expense of our mission of being an…

That isn’t entirely the Corps’ fault, we weren’t the ones that wanted a brand new Air Force, Navy, & Marine Corps plane to be combined into one platform, that was the SecDecf. I’m pretty sure that the Corps would have been perfectly happy with a stand alone Harrier replacement that had nothing to do with whatever the…

This. It’s also a chance to get some serious maintenance work done, the kind that can only be done while in dry dock. So, in addition to the refueling, they’ll almost certainly look her over stem to stern to make sure that nothing on the hull is cracked, warped, or otherwise damaged in an way. Then they’ll probably…

It’s just the usual cross pollination that goes on with Gawker sites although it seems that as of late a lot more unrelated articles are getting cross posted.

Or a hidden IFF transponder so that if it’s used at anything that registers friendly it blows up in the user’s face.

I’ve had the same idea vis vis reorganizing the ME and Africa along ethnic, tribal, and sectarian lines but then I thought to myself, that probably won’t solve anything. Instead of civil wars we’d just get regular wars between these new nations for whatever reason, they’ll fight each other because they’re traditional…

In theory it shouldn’t matter since we don’t generally operate in the same areas that the Russians do. Plus we tend to fly outside of MANPAD range in Syria since we don’t (I think) actually provide any kind of low level CAS to the rebels and generally bomb from high altitudes.

So, where are all the trolls saying that this video was a waste of taxpayer’s money?

Drink (even) more vodka?

I think that NeutronStar is right, the F-4 used to be pretty smokey as I recall and I’ve never heard of the F-4 having water injection. I think that some engines are just terribly inefficient and thus produce all of that black smoke.

Those numbers don’t tell the entire story. While the German Panzer Corps did have much greater numbers they were also pretty weak tanks with the mainstay being the PzKpfw III armed with a 57mm cannon and a relative handful of IVs all armed with a short barreled, low velocity 75mm gun. Fance’s tanks, while maybe not as…

As far as I know it’s true, I read about this in an article on Military.com. Whether or not Military.com is known to post things that aren’t true I don’t know, but for now I’d toss the story into the true column.

The problem is that it won’t work with Daesh as their goal isn’t just to kick the West out of the Middle East, they want nothing more than global jihad in order to create a global caliphate. Sure, we could just pull out and completely ignore them for the next 10 - 15 years, but we can’t continue to kick the can down…

We might have done it back in the ‘50s, maybe. You have to remember thath interstate system was built with the specific purpose to serve as a military highway in case of a major war, esp. if on US soil. In fact, down here in SoCal Camp Pendleton bisects the I5, from what I’m told the idea was that in case they needed…

Great video, it makes me wonder if any Eagle drivers, or other current fighter pilot, has ever shot down his old bird turned into a QF. By this I don’t just mean a former F-4 pilot turned F-15 pilot shooting down a QF-4, but a 15 driver shooting down the same exact F-4 that he used to fly before transitioning to F-15s.

Probably not, anything AP will likely zip right on through from one side to the next. Whatever this thing is made out of I’d be surprised that it would offer enough resistance to trigger something with a delayed timing fuse and is AP like the Mk211.

Here’s something that I’m curious, when they’re all parked end to end like that is there enough runway left for the front few rows to actually take off? It would seem to me that the front few rows wouldn’t have all that much runway in which to take off from and would be really pushing it.

Tract? You mean track.

Wide open desserts would definitely be an impediment to the North Korean military because as well fed as they might be compared to their civilian counterparts, I doubt even they are well fed enough to resist wide open desserts.

M203? Hell, you could probably ruin their day with an M16 or SAW alone, for real fun you could light it up with an M240, or better yet, and M2 w/incindiary rounds.