Standard operating procedure for low-level ops like this is to constantly deploy flares in order to mitigate risk of missile attack. It’s not just for show.

While I dare say one of them will eventually be brought down, I think it’s worth keeping in mind that in this situation, the Hind is pretty much in its element - Hinds were originally designed to transport troops and then provide close support after dropping them off, although they’re mainly used as straight up…

Low and fast minimizes the time it takes for enemy assets to hear it, see it, or react to it. It doesn’t maximize it.

I think it should be noted that these tunnels had obviously been built before any treaties had been signed and probably while relations were far colder. (Also very likely that the military already knew of their existence and that anyone doing any treaty writing did too.)

Good. Lodged between nuclear sunni Pakistan, which is always only half a coup away from going apeshit, wahhabi Saudi Arabia and having to deal with Israel and US which reserve themselves the right to invade any middle eastern country at any time for any pretext, and had spent the last 15 years publicly entertaining…

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.

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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.

After that video of good landings, here’s one with bad landings... it almost physically hurts to watch this.

That thing lands like a precocious two year old.

“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.

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

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!”