It doesn't have the tackling heavyweight opponents focus the PHMs had.

Every shell the S-60 fires is a tracer round.

Worse than terrible; it's good, but not good enough.

The Mistrals are built to merchant-ship standards of compartmentalization and have essentially no built-in self-defense armament. Also, they carry about half the number of aircraft, and a quarter the number of troops. So, almost the same capability, for a pretty far-ranging value of "almost."

R&D is always amortized over the production run of anything. It's also why when budget-cutting starts, and a system starts getting its procurement reduced to save money, the per-unit cost skyrockets, which is then used as a proof of the project's cost overruns, which leads to the buy being cut again, and— well, you…

This is all so very Ace Combat.

The logical conclusion of inlines > radials.

Well, the factory is pretty cool. You know, if you like robots 'n junk.

There's generally a countdown on every Foxtrot Alpha story until this exact comment appears. Congrats.

Always with the negative waves...

It's actually about things found underneath logs.

To be fair, ASROC has been around since the Fifties, too.

The tires aren't electric, after all. Really, any parking lot you pull into, you better have a five-minute buffer time available.

If you're looking to avoid this kind of encounter, that's terrible advice, because driving a Model S gets you the exact same Q&A treatment.

Shaped charges are very finicky creatures. If they hit perfectly, they can go through very large amounts of armor indeed. If they're off by a little, they'll do almost nothing. The M113 has nowhere near enough armor to resist an RPG-7 in theory, but only one out of seven hits in Vietnam actually penetrated the…

For a certain percentage of the population, this will be the "bootlegger turn," as well.

They're all Mercedes parts.

The "medium carrier" didn't make sense during the Carter era, and still doesn't. We already have smaller carriers—those LHDs and LHAs you mentioned, and they will do the show-the-flag and stomp-on-pirates missions just fine. But let's not pretend that in the event of a peer conflict—and that's what the big carriers…

Point of order: attempts to get rid of the F136 started back in 2006. The only reason the question lingered into the Obama administration is that Congress (unlikely voice of reason) kept the Pentagon from ditching the alternate engine—at least until Pratt&Whitney lobbied enough.

People angrily responding to bots, for one thing.