Everyone remembers when the F-16 was nicknamed “lawn dart” early in its career because it kept crashing, right?

The regular Iraqi Army was primarily unmotivated, poorly trained and ill-equipped conscripts. The Republican Guard was professional, well-paid (to keep them loyal), and trained on a level more akin to a western force.

Sort of the opposite of the old Iraqi Republican Guard, who were much better trained and much more professional than the regular Army.

High endurance cutters perform security missions, law enforcement, and light duty anywhere you can find a lot of US shipping traffic.

Your comments are all bad and you should feel bad.

25mm Mk-38 isn’t a machine gun, it’s a cannon.

Flyby and do nothing, basically

The F-22 was only not allowed to be exported because Congress specifically passed a law preventing its export. That’s all.

This isn’t POTUS’ deal, he just announced it and took credit for it. It was approved under Obama in November 2016 after negotiations began in 2015.

If you’re only distinguishing between destroyers and cruisers by size, it’s REALLY gonna blow your mind to compare the Ticonderogas to the Zumwalt class “destroyers”

Most of the Ti for the SR-71s came from Australia. Only the first couple A-12s used Russian Ti.

Yeah, good luck designing and modding a 747-8I into an AF1 that’ll already be available next year.

Why would any deposits have to be repaid? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of a deposit?

Fucking scumbags.

This is cool.

No offense Andrew, but I miss Tyler writing these.

That, or making either large or small differences in Russian airframes.

This is most good Kinja, Jerry.

No transistors used, only vacuum tubes. So, you didn’t really have anything to worry about.