A code brown is watching the 46 slide left and when clear of the deck lose all power and settle right down in the water due to lack of power. Apparently, after a de-snail wash, they never drained the panels under the floor boards.

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All of our birds were never taken out of service, at least in my time. They may have spent time on “death row” until the next fiscal year, but they all flew again.

I have a good idea about what happened after they got back to the hanger: they gutted it, sent the destroyed parts to DRMO, and shipped the frame to NADEP so it could be refurbished.

LHD 6 USS Bonhomme Richard. I did a Pacific Tour providing engineering support to the AV-8s that were on board back in 2002. Very cool experience. Watch a lot of flight ops from Primary, was at the flight deck to see Harriers launch and even witness the ship to ship refueling.

Flew in them several times through the ’90s. The general consensus was when they stopped leaking fluids was when you really had to worry. It was also a time when Navy HC squadrons (the even older -46D variant) still deployed as SAR and VERTREP dets on gators (ideally suited for the latter mission, BTW). One the HC…

Even though the helicopter’s rear section was heavily charred, it supposedly flew again after almost a year of restoration.

Please oh wise one tell us how President ghostmourn would stop the big bad Chinese?

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Let’s face it, the clock ran out a long time ago. If we were going to stop them, we would have needed to before they started moving dirt.

OK... let’s turn back the clock a few hours to when we didn’t know China was sending these units to the islands. What were we going to do about the Chinese militarization of these islands? Nothing, no reason to do anything, according to the US government, other than perform “Freedom of the Seas/Skies” actions.

The Chinese are the ones we should be watching not Russia. I understand that the islands are disputed and claimed by various countries so what is the correct mechanism for settling it once and for all? Obviously Chinas claim are just utterly ridiculous to begin with

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That actually looks outright terrifying!

Here is a video of that in operation. Looks like a follow on to the Grizzly that was nixed back in 2001. Saw a Grizzly simulator down in Orlando in a previous job.

Bloody Norah your right old chap

It is a bit surprising that the U.S., which can afford to equip its forces for a large scale of wartime scenarios, has not shown any interest.

To be fair we dd have the assault lift in the Falklands. It just got destroyed. There was enough on the Atlantic Conveyor to do the entire lift. But we had a plan B thank god, and there was no other light infantry on earth who could have done that in 1982.

Thanks for the assist on, y’know, Iraq.

The British Empire is....ermm.. some small islands in the Atlantic. The Empire has long since ceased as a part of the consciousness of the UK - even we relegate it to costume dramas and period documentaries, because that’s exactly what it is - history.