Please name any other weapon system in the history of warfare that has done the following:
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Although whales, dolphins and other echo-locating creatures will not be particularly happy about this, at least they will know exactly where the nearest starbucks is.
The small carriers can fling off F-35B which are short legged jump jets. They sacrifice alot of range to pretend to be Star Wars X-wings.
You’re a real knee-biter even if you know where your towel is, do you know that?
Wrong character, but he’s definately from that cast.
I swear that snooper sneaky Virginia class submarine was above Water when it was patrolling exactly 63,360 feet from your island’s prebuilt up coastline. Here our doctored satellite recon proves it.
Come on baby hold together!
It won’t give me my $1000 dollars back! Do I keep smashing the button or hit it on the side with a Ford Mustang?
The ocean is the most naturally occuring caustic and corrosive environment on Earth. It doesn’t surprise me that a ship built to last 50+ years is a waking hazmat nightmare. It needs to be as unnatural as possible just to keep the natural ocean from slowly eating it.
What’s the overall health of American ship building?
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1. Lockheed owns the operational support for the F-35, so yes they are bringing Lockheed for the labor.
This site may be more your cup of tea then.
I’m confused.
In this capacity at least, Russia has clearly moved beyond the Cold War—and America hasn’t.
You are quite wrong. Sustainment and Operations is WHERE the money is. Most company will develop at a loss, if they get a piece of the maintenance share.
Win? Maybe.
Terrell, I keep coming back because you have an intelligent and unique perspective, but please do a little more research before commenting like that. There are Navy forces that are over deployed and poorly used. (You don’t use a F/A-18E Superhornet to do the job a PA-18 excelled at) The war-machines are worn out…
This is Foxtrot-alpha, a sub-blog of Jalopnik. Car guys tended to like military equipment and aviation, so the military sub-blog ended up here. The previous writers were really good at looking at the equipment and had a no bs way to assess their implications. The current writers tend towards a global perspective. In…