Now I’m not sure whether this is a new Russian sock puppet talking point or what.

Yeah, if a 23 year old story is the best you can do, I guess we should totally worry about it... along with the dangers of genocide in the Balkans, the Y2K bug, nuclear war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, Saddam Hussein’s lingering WMD program, and the possible future rise of a organization called “al-Qaida”.

IIRC the Republican Guard was chewed up pretty well by the Marines, even before the coalition Arabs kicked them back out of Khafji.

Please show evidence of the Israelis actually doing something like this before making dumb comments?

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

I have a feeling the F-22, even exported to Israel, would come with the tightest export controls possible. For all I know, the F-35 might as well.

I agree with your implicit criticism that the amount of aid we give to Israel is bullshit, treaty-mandated or not, and doesn’t particularly tie them closer to us anymore.

I’ve gotta own it here and admit that I was one of those voices pushing for fewer F-22s to be built in favor of more F-35s.

Australia, for sure. Possibly the Saudis.

As I recall, the idea of buying the Super Hornet has actually been kicked around as a replacement, primarily, for aging Air National Guard units.

Israelis would definitely buy the F-22 if they could...

Oh. Yes, a 286 definitely would not have been able to run 688(i) Hunter/Killer.

Because they blatantly started using an A&M trademark without permission, hence the original lawsuit. Then as the sunset approached on the original settlement agreement, they basically kept using what’s virtually the same trademark only slightly modified to escape having to pay A&M.

I mean, screw Texas A&M, but I hope the Aggies sue the shit outta them again.

Everytime I visit Washington the proliferation of 12 flags are insufferable.

I have a friend who was an Apache gunner, still has shrapnel in his knee from Taliban AA gunners.

The Janes games were all real gems, imo

Stunning!

We’ve got Valkyrie here at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson. (She’s being washed and repainted at the moment, though)

Agreed, but I was responding to the point about CBGs. The US had a ton of old conventionally-powered carriers able to deploy. At the time of Desert Storm the Midway was the oldest carrier in the fleet, but we also had the Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, and Independence of the 1950s Forrestal class, the Kitty Hawk,…