Certainly is the warship of the future. Shame they’re only buying friggin 3 of them.

Why would Iran try a land grab in “Iraq” in that case? Shiite Iraq is already an Iranian ally.

That’s my point. Beyond simply the question of whether a dedicated jammer plane has the superior equipment to a multirole WW F-16 or F-35 (it does) the Grizzly also has the advantage of a dedicated crewmember for the mission of the plane.

Turkey “gets along with” Iraqi Kurds? Well they certainly didn’t before the 2003 invasion. The Turks used to invade northern Iraq virtually once a year to fight the Kurds.

90% of the time when I see someone seriously complain about “financially manipulative and emotionally abusive parents”, they come from an overprivileged household. Talk about a first world problem...

The post also comes off as all the worst stereotypes of millennials, too...

Wow. What a snarky, excessive, over-the-top rant from somebody who seems to resent her parents. While there’s some to agree with here, the idea that a parent who’s paying for an Ivy League education can’t even expect to speak to their child once a week is ungracious and insane.

Yes, I get it, but I think perhaps the bigger issue than the dedicated equipment is the fact that you only have a single pilot supposedly running all this electronic weaponry himself while also trying to fly the plane.

I’m shocked that a porn company might be ethically shitty.

Turkey is there to “train” the Kurds? In what? Dying?

I assume so as well. I also assume that like everything else F-35, they’re overpromising and will underperform.

Poor replacement for the Prowler.

Well, this is assuming S-400 or other Russian ADS in the area cannot down a Tomahawk. But they almost certainly cannot down a JSOW, so as long as a US aircraft can get within 70 miles (well inside S-400’s range, but you might not want to launch at a target that far out, unless you’re 100% sure) they’re touchable.

Great read.

Have you ever known anyone with Alzheimer’s? It’s a notoriously unpredictable illness. They have days where they’re living in a cloud, and then they have days where they’re incredibly lucid and even seem like they did before the onset of the disease.

Well you’re certainly a Russian sympathizer, what with the conspiracy theories about Nazis in Ukraine and whatnot.

Yes, the same way Russia cannot use force against Ukraine due to the Budapest Agreement...

Yeah, well, when Russia actually starts expending the majority of its ordnance against Daesh, rather than against threats to Assad, then talk to me. As far as I can tell, the Russians aren’t really fighting on the same side as the west. Cool conspiracy theory, though.

Well, I’ve found my new desktop background. Thanks, Tyler!

Yes, the short and curlies, and no doubt Russia wouldn’t care a lick if Turkey stopped Russian ships from entering the Bosphorus...