They really should have gone with the contingency plan to convert the POW to CATOBAR, and then equipped her with Rhinos and/or F-35Cs. The F-35C might be the best of the three; my USAF BIL maintains that it’s the best dogfighter.

Same. Also, because it’s a GIANT, DELTA-WINGED BOMBER. I understand the fiscal reasoning, but it makes me sad that only the US and Russia have real bombers anymore. (And kinda China, but their bombers are shite)

Just roll with it — it’s legit.

I have always loved that shot of the Harrier firing rockets.

Vs. aliens, we’re all Americans. And Russians.

Heck, visit Surrey in early July, and you can celebrate Independence Day with my half American, half British cousins, which just seems misguided and confused.

You replied to his comment. We know.

Have you ever actually been to Britain??

...dude...

And leave the UK without any nuclear deterrent?

These thought experiments are fun, but you get extra points for going full metric.

Link to a reputable source?

The biggest problem with the argument advanced by TBONESTEAK and others of his/her ilk is the idea that we could have simply convinced the rest of the world to keep leaky sanctions on Iran indefinitely without progress on a nuclear deal. As I said, the Europeans, Russians, etc. were only willing to (mostly) stick to…

NUH UH

I’m sorry, but calling the one thing that stopped Iran’s nuclear weapon progress “the single greatest foreign policy mistake since invading Vietnam”, just a few years after the invasion of Iraq, is incredibly stupid.

This is completely illogical. The only reason an international sanctions regime was able to stick to Iran in the first place was because the US was negotiating in good faith to limit the Iranian nuclear program. Once that was achieved, Iran only got back, at best, money it would have had anyway, and arguably, actually…

Doubt it. There are a lot of Navy F-14s in museums already (though not nearly as many as there should be!) and an IIAF/IRIAF F-14 would be a very, very unique piece.

Throw in one of those pine tree air fresheners?

The worst part of this story is that we may actually be at the end of flying F-14s. :(

It’s not entirely theoretical. One of the reasons Reagan’s missile defense program never came anywhere close to operational testing was that it would have required, to destroy an ICBM in space, literally a small nuclear blast to power the laser (as I’m now seeing somebody mentioned above). Now imagine the differences…