According to the 2nd amendment, I should be allowed to have one of these.

This meshes well with everything I know (not much), and everything I’ve heard (100x more) about these aircraft.

I detest the guy, but he’s not painting us into a corner. Russia will be a key player in ending this conflict. Don’t have to take my word for it, just watch.

American observers usually don’t reside in rebel held territory, just like you won’t find many Russian advisers in the region the US is bombing. That said, the US won’t do much if this scenario does occur. They’ll probably lodge a “strong protest” like the time the Russians shot down that commercial airplane.

The Chinese are the only known manufacturer to produce AKs with fully hooded front sight bases, and they’re the only ones still producing AKs with the original vented gas tube. The entire Eastern Bloc, and everyone else who bought tooling from the Eastern Bloc, build AKM-pattern guns with gas vents in the gas block.…

Where do any bomber and jet fighter pilots take a crap?

Your political comments are getting tiresome.

Replace your use of ‘Chinese’ with ‘United States’ and how exactly does your statement differ? Obviously their own self interests are at their best interest...

Good thing nobody else in the world does that, right?

The ATD-X is really more of a tech demonstrator as opposed to something that will be a full fledged fighter. It’s way smaller than anything else, too small to carry internal weapons.

Well, new converts and especially new born-again Christians can be REALLY intense about their beliefs. I think it has to do with needing to belong and be a good member of whatever religion a person has found - which can be a really important and powerful experience.

Yep.

There are very few mil-spec ships that could survive a hit by a Mach 3 Brahmos. However, focusing on beefing up certain structures, redundancy, and damage control may mean the difference between a crew getting off a mortally wounded ship and going straight to the bottom within seconds.

“It has been argued that this happens due to the fact they are build up to comercial specs, not military ones. They are basically built like any other cargo ship and as capable of taking a missile as one..”

US policy seems to be about having the most advanced and expensive military on the planet to act as a deterrent with the occasional military destruction of an impoverished nation

i’m just curious.. when was the last time the Chinese flew around in the Gulf of Mexico? the reason i ask is that for some reason it is all good for us to cruise around their back yard and get all pissy when they take offense, but could you imagine the reaction if they started flying around 75 miles off the coast of…

Our hypocrisy is truly astounding sometimes. We complain about China establishing airstrips a few hundred miles off their mainland while we maintain dozens of bases which are thousands of miles away from ours! Last I checked, none of these new Chinese bases are further from China’s mainland than our bases in Guam,…

One of the many many many mistakes to come out of WW1. Breaking up the Ottoman Empire. It probably would have fallen apart eventually anyways, but Britain and France just couldn’t resist one last Imperial grab

there’s an excellent 3 part BBC documentary on the Ottoman Empire which does a great job at explaining quite a few issues currently faced in the Middle East from a historical perspective.

Just stop. Any reputable source will confirm that Russia decisively won that war, accompanied every single objective they set and captured a ton of enemy equipment. To say that “they got their ass handed to them” is objectively, not-open-to-interpretation idiotic, especially when paired with inference that a similar…