Which is something America, which gave the world the Moon landings and the iPhone, should have considered way, way before.

You had me until right there.

The best argument for getting some kind of advanced non-nuke boats into USN service has nothing to do with the cost-versus-capability analysis, but rather keeping shipyards employed. It's not "pork" if lack of work causes a sub-capable shipyard to lay off workers that take with them institutional expertise that takes…

I think the Twosair is one of the few single-seaters modified for a second seat that actually looks OK.

As a result of trusting the onboard nav a little too much, I got to do a little offroading in a P85. The paint got scratched up, but it pulled through. I can only assume another motor would have improved the experience.

The USN already built a perfectly workable LCS back in the Sixties:

All WW2 fighter names not already in play should be. Tesla, your Thunderbolt is available.

They haven't used Biarritz in a while.

Don't dig in your heels, don't double down. Add a link in the article with the original film.

The convertible tail rotor never flew—it was a paper design only, intended to compete with Lockheed's reworked Cheyenne after it had been cancelled the first time. The S-67 did fly with a French-style tail fan, though.

It's not just Third-World nations and non-states that have made use of improvised armored vehicles:

Before the "Alfa," there was the Project 661 "Papa" class, consisting of a single ship, K-222. The Papa was a cruise missile sub, intended to attack high-value targets like USN carrier groups, and it had a battery of ten P-70 Ametist (SS-N-7 "Starbright") missiles to do the job.

Whatever that thing on the roof is, the dude on the street should realize he has too much gun on not enough technical.

Dornier also managed to sink a lot of money into a new-technology version of the Do-24 flying boat that no one bought, either.

Automatically? No. But someone shot that clip close enough to see the gun, and that makes it a better clue than any others we have.

Which is odd, since the whole class has seemed just as snakebit as most of the other problem-child projects in the last decade.

Like this one:

The title of the clip is "MiG almost hit by 57mm shell." Syria, like every other former Soviet client, has a bunch S-60s lying around.

Again, every round produced for that gun has tracer in it. They can't not fire tracers, unless they're handloading rounds for it.

I can't think of another 57mm AA weapon it's likely to be.