There’s a paper I read somewhere written up by Navy research engineers that determined the effect of Exocets on Iowa armor. An Exocet would’ve caused little to no damage to the belt, which is where most AShM target. Of course the Chinese have supersonic sunburn missiles that would do far more damage than an Exocet,…

When your country decides to actually provide decent paid maternity leave, then perhaps we’ll talk. Till then....nope. You don’t get to whine about this.

As a developer, this ruins a symbiotic relationship between game studios and streamers/Let’s Players. Its free advertising!

... and you’re still missing the best bit entirely; holding the clutch bite point, on a hill, with a wanker half a meter behind you.

Farscape-1

I’m not going to get into the nature of the whole Ono-vs-Lennon camp, but I will say this: Any time the living presume to speak for the dead, I have concerns.

I don’t care that Lennon may have been bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, pansexual or asexual; what I care about is that was his concern to voice—not his…

Every time the U.S. gives guns to someone in the Middle East they end up delivered to Dash. It’s just a matter of time.

“What the fuck?!”

Graphite pencils make wonderful temporary marking devices on bare or anodized metal. He might be in QA and he’s marking a loose or incorrectly installed rivet (maybe a burr, not shaved to the correct height). Graphite isn’t greasy and cleans up easily.

There are some incredibly good adhesives out today, and certainly some are used in the f35 and f22, but nothing beats a rivet. For aircraft construction they really are the best fastener in the world. These planes see huge variation in temperature and we expect them to last 30-40 years, during which time they’ll see…

If I understand your analogy correctly, the Su-34 is the Ferrari FF of Sukhoi’s portfolio:

Robert deNiro in a trailer for another bank heist movie.

The color palette Russia chooses for its vehicles and equipment blows my mind and makes me fall in love with nearly everything.

Hahaha. After a white water rafting trip in WV (in which our boat pilot kept mentioning that we needed to hurry up so she could get to her anniversary date...with her brother), I bought a tshirt that said “Paddle faster, I hear banjo music!”

The technicians in the photos really give you a sense of scale. That thing is bloody huge. Same length as an F-111, ten feet longer than an F-15. And that means that the Su27 is enormous for a fighter.

Honestly, 1/2 the war mongers here are too stupid to get irony. They take what they’re told at face value. We spent $500 million on training for the “moderate rebels”. We have nothing to show for it. Just like the entire Iraq war. Well not nothing. We got 10’s of thousands of ruined American soldiers out of the deal…

“ If you don’t succeed in business, you shouldn’t be the first one to step up and complain about getting paid.”

I’m starting to think “Allahu Akbar” is maybe the Islamic short-hand equivalent of,

i can’t believe it took rounds coming his way for him to figure out what was happening. “hey look, he’s going to considerable effort to point the nose directly at us...wonder why he would do that?”

Seriously do they ever not say that!? Breakfast, lunch, dinner, fucking a goat, getting your balls shot off, running around with an AK pointed in the air...it’s all the same apparently.