IIRC the videos and documentation went beyond final assembly. In fact they plan on using those videos and tooling to make replacement parts for the F-22 and F119s I believe. Also, take a chill pill, we can talk here without all the know it all attitude.

I remember the first toy I ever bought with my own money, it was an $8 GI-Joe boat. And by“my own money”, I mean my allowance money that my mom held for me. Which means basically my mom bought the GI-Joe boat for me.

Never did I mention in my comment about the West lacking similar tech. Did I.....um no. So I don’t know what you were trying to prove here.

That really depends.

I know the difference between “that’s the way it is” vs. “that’s the way it ought to be,” but come on. If the labor rates aren’t paying for the labor, raise them. I’d much rather see a bill with an honest part price and honest labor rates than try to figure out where they hid the extra money they need.

Here’s what fucks me off about Mechanics marking up the parts. They aren’t buying the parts from some special “mechanics only” part store. They’re often buying them from the same goddamn store I can walk into and buy parts from, likely at wholesale.

The Nissan dealer I bought my truck from charges me substantially more for parts than I can buy them for at retail at the parts counter in the same building as the service department. By substantially more, I mean $35 on a part they would sell me for $80. Of course, they charge me for installation on top of that. Once…

are you sure this wasn't a Trump rally? Look at all these peckerwood jackasses

That actually may be a better slogan than “Fair and Balanced”-”Fox News - 24 Hours of Bullshit”

My wife had Fox News on last night when she went to bed. The woman and her two guests repeatedly talked about how embarrassing it was and how these soldiers were forced to do things they didn’t want to do and that it was basically an act of war.

But they’re talking about LOWERING the standards. And mixed-gender combat teams have already proven to be significantly less effective than all-male ones. Facts are facts here; either we’re going to lower the standards in order to accommodate women, or we’re going to not have women in combat. It’s really that simple.

The F-35 is a POS and the MC IOC earlier this year is as much as a fraud as the AF IOC will be this year or the Navy IOC would be in 2019. IF (and it is a huge if) EVERYTHING in the upcoming testing of the F-35 goes completely flawlessly, the plan still wont be fully functional in 7 year, plus all the time needed to…

Do we need to start a kickstarter for more F-18’s?

I can tell that its going to have a shit load of torque steer after the tuners get their hands on it, its going to be loud, and that I’m going to see guys who I know for a fact can’t afford it driving around in a 35 thousand dollar Civic with soot all on the back bumper from them being revved to oblivion.

No worries, I’m sure your (and my) insurance premiums will pay to get this tool’s Jeep back into tip top shape!

kids fucking nine and still believed in Santa. I had two full time jobs by nine and a family to support. From the sounds of it he might be better off with a block of wood

I hate the kid and the parents the most in this story. He’s 9 years old and he had to be left alone in the other room to cry? And his whole Christmas was ruined. Really. How dramatic.

Take your command and conquer level armchair generaling elsewhere. You have no fuckin’ idea what you are talking about.

Oh good, you’re back. Your body may have spent time in “the middle east” (I used to live there, as well) but sadly the brain attached is making piss poor use of it.

Driving at those speeds on a public road is, to me, the same as firing a gun into a crowd of people.