Sometimes names come from the strangest places....I used to work in at a place that supported ground based radar systems and the Firefinder (Counter Battery Radar) was being replaced by a system with the designation AN/TPQ-53....and the troops where calling it Herbie....from VW bug from the movie The Love Bug..because…

Personally I don’t think we are getting the ROW Ranger here...its too big (7/8 size of a smaller F-150), doesn’t offer much of an improvement MPG wise over the 2.7 V6 in the F-150 and would only draw sales from the F-series, which Ford doesn’t want.

What I think we are getting is a C-car based product that is…

With remote start it can be set for 5-10-15 minutes. Not sure what it is after its been driven.

Its hard to misplace the keys in a car with keyless start...I know on my SHO, I can’t lock the doors with the keys in it (which sucks since I have a keypad on the door and I’d like to lock the keys in it if I went to the gym etc)

As for the twist key thing...its pointless. It adds costs the interior and if you have a…

My wife drove my Taurus SHO several miles without the key fob in it (I forgot to give it to her and she missed the warning on the dash...she doesn’t drive it much) when she dropped me off at a wedding I was in.

Only bad thing that came of that was I spilt the croch on my Tux rental getting back into another Grooms…

When I watched this video it appeared that first ATGM strike hit the rear of the turret side and ignited the ammo rack...and it appears the idiots had it opened up for some reason or another (just like the Iraqi crewed ones) and it winded up brewing up the tank and killing the crew.

I worked on the CUCV from 1997-2001 while I was in the Guard. The two we had where passable, but they didn’t see nearly as much action as the Humvees I was working on from 1993-1997 active duty.

I still hate glow plugs to this day because of idiotic drivers of those vehicles!

They tried that already back in the 1980s with the CUCV, which was nothing more than a Chevy Blazer with the same diesel engine and they basically fell apart in military usage. I have hands-on wrenching experience with the Humvee and CUCV from the Mid to late 1990s and the CUCV was pretty terrible overall.

Don’t forget…

I have a 2013 SHO and my only complaint about the interior is the footwells on the drivers side...they have a reinforcement in the floor board that is right in the way of my confortably resting my feet next to the seat.

and lucky to see 300 cars sold a month too. There really isn’t a market for a car from Austraila with their bland styling in the USA.

The current car can handle the engine no problem. there are pently of tuned SHO’s with some bolt ons that run sub 13 second 1/4 mile times...not bad for a car that weighs 5 thousand tons as you put it.

How much of a pain the ass to have to be worried about fitting an object in your car? I have a 2006 Mustang GT that was my only car up until few years ago. I had a microwave go bad in my condo, so i went to the local Lowes/Home Depot to get one, and come to find out that it doesn’t fit into the car...had to call my…

As for the Russian Economy:

If you keep weapons systems from getting shipped to your enemy by complaing to the country selling them, that is A LOT cheaper then buying new weapons/tactics to deal with it...

Well given how the Russian air force can’t keep its aircraft in the sky as of late and the Chinese are lucky to have 300-500 modern aircraft, I think your concerns are a bit over stated.

Couple things, the greatest airplanes in the world don’t mean jack shit if you don’t have a decent pilot flying them....and that is very expensive to do.

Second thing, the US military already has a S-300 in its possession and the IAF has already gone up against it in Syria successfully with non-stealth F-15s. I’m sure…

In all seriousness, I don’t think it would be all that much cheaper for the UK to make a navalised Eurofighter..the only bought 160 for the RAF and to make 100 or so Naval Eurofighters would cost a small fortution and plus lack the stealth abilities that the F-35 offers.

The problem is that you are hung up on the actual designation of the F-xx or “fighter” designation. There have been plenty of Fighters or Pursuit planes (the previous Army Air Corp designation) that haven’t been good “dogfighters” out there in the past 70-80 years.

Lets talk about UAV’s or UCAV’s, your being native to…

It all depends on what the threat is if its using wing stores...if it’s something like Lybia or Iraq were the A2A or ground threat is next to nothing, it really doesn’t matter. But if its day one of Desert Storm, it’s going in full stealth mode.

That is a point alot of people are missing...your 4th gen fighters don’t…

I think the biggest problem is the misunderstanding about the program...just look at the name: