Reading some of the history after Robespierre execution would tell you that it was a terrible idea...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the "moderate" armed opposition in the country, receives a lot of attention. But two of the most successful factions fighting Assad's forces are Islamist extremist groups: Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the latter of which is now amassing territory in Iraq…

I was quite specifcic: ISIS and Al-Nusra are the saudi's and qataris fuckbuddies when no one is looking.

Save for the little fact that some of the countries in said "coalition" are the creators, funders and spreaders of the backwards ideology that fuels ISIS.

As said by Morgan, coaxials aren't that slow. The Ka-50/52 cruise slightly faster than an Apache, for example.

It's like they took the worst parts from the lasts few Pierce Brosnan Bond films and made them even more over the top.

You can use sand bags for added realism.

Dreamfall was so fucking depressing...

Borderline pedo video, particularly when he seems to focus on the most child-looking one of them.

In Libya, though

Necessity is the mother of inventions, indeed. And I guess in some case you have to do with whatever you have at hand.

One can spot similar examples of improvised armor even on both sides of the Ukrainian conflict

They skim

Not pictured: while the Be-200 skims on a lake large enough to reload, the DC-10 has to figo back to a suitable runway and wait for the pumps to do their work.

Isn't this like that joke of a KC-X bid where some random american company no one heard of, offered the An-70?.

The ones who are in it for the money, like David Miswhathisname and not because they believe in any of it?.

Yes. And a clueless one, at that...

with all the MANPADs smuggled from Libya, taken from Syrian arsenals and given away by the Qataris, it's too risky

If you were talking about AA 587, that plane was 14 years old when it crashed.

As opposed to the rudder getting stuck or an uncommanded thrust reverser deployment?