Three tanks every four hours (round trip) per hovercraft is not going to exactly overwhelm Taiwan with force-of-numbers. I would say the real value of these craft is unpredictability - with the kind of speed they have, it would be hard to reposition defenses to counter beach landings in widely separated locations. But…

No, what the Toyobaru needs is an LS swap.

That which is not mandatory is forbidden!

That was what jumped out at me. And honestly, your stuff is better than anything else on Gawker's sites, so I apologize for painting you with the same brush as the rest.

"The service's love affair with the aircraft would blossom over the following decades, with a total of C-9Bs 29 operating by the late 1980s" for one thing...

Man, that headline is terribly written.

Same reason the posts themselves are riddled with typos and errors. ZFG.

If one of those bomb magnets manages to actually make 20 knots, I would be astonished. It also looks like a maintenance nightmare - I don't know how difficult an LCAC is to maintain in the real world, but conceptually they're pretty straightforward in a mechanical sense. This thing, though...

I realize it's a shitty misrepresentation of cool things that happen in the real world...

So what is up with that lead photo? Why is the car doing a stationary burnout ten feet past the starting line? I mean, obviously it's a shot set up to include the tree, but it just screams "staged" because it's something that would never, ever happen outside of a photo shoot.

I am kind of sensing you may be a troll, but I am willing to roll with it.

Nope.

Paying for a pallet is the least-cool thing I can imagine.

Stolen as in the original isn't getting the views, LiveLeak is. The owner of the content is not receiving the benefit of having produced and released that content, so yes, "stolen" is exactly the right word.

Here's one thing I know with total certainty: If it is a video on LiveLeak, it was originally stolen from some other source. Stop feeding them.

I was speaking in hypothetical terms - you don't have to have the electric step in there to spin a flywheel, but every real-world implementation I can think of does, for the sake of engineering convenience at the expense of efficiency.

Wow. Way to bring an 18-month-old comment back from the dead to eat the brains of the living.

Flywheel energy storage is awesome in the sense that you can avoid the loss of efficiency from going from kinetic to electrical to kinetic energy in regenerative braking. But the big problem is that small, (relatively) lightweight flywheel systems have to spin at terrifying speeds, hopefully in a vacuum with magnetic…

I'm fairly sure that there aren't enough "radio silence" incidents or lost RP's to explain the number of cops I have seen on their cell phones while driving.

In California, they're allowed to use their phones "in the course of their official duties" but I wonder how often that happens, considering that they have frequency-agile radios and data terminals right there in their patrol vehicles for actual job-related stuff.