Golden Earing, or White Lion?

Very well played.

I’ve been flyin’ all night, my hand’s wet on the stick. There’s a voice in my ear, tells me how my weapons tick. My CO called, said he needs me home. It’s 1630 hours, overheated dome. When it gets warm outside and my targets disappear...200 million bucks can’t cure my primal fear. Don’t need to talk at all — I got a…

Which is why the Kirovs aren’t super concerning, although the Navy will be watching them closely, because Nimitz and Ford carriers still have the advantage.

So.... how do you kill it? Torpedos?

That’s exactly what Omar Bradley told policymakers in the 1940s... and then Korea happened

The cat has that “Those fools keep dressing me in annoying outfits but 700Km offshore my escape options are limited” expression. The visible pent-up anger is enough to wonder whether the only reason Admiral Cat hasn’t lunched nuclear-tipped Granit at a carrier group thus starting a world war is the lack of opposable…

Well it looks like we can’t sink it even if a shooting war starts. No way we can kill that cat.

Just had to make a meme on the cat. Probably won’t work in isolation by itself. But works with article above.

Back in 1989, on my first West Pac, we were part of the New Jersey battle group. We participated in a huge exercise up in the north Pacific and while we were up there, the battleships were cleared to fire their big guns again after the Iowa investigation was completed. We were astern of the New Jersey by probably 3-4…

With all the high tech anti-ship missiles out there on all sides. What does a large scale naval battle even look like? Is it everyone just snaking around on the edge of each other’s anti-ship missile range?

How will it defeat the #1 enemy of the Russian Navy? Regular Maintenance.

That is the most Russian looking cat...

I would like to see the siege of Malta portrayed in a modern movie. Possibilities are endless. Perhaps even a trilogy, showing airplanes, subs and the surface ships.

Yes IIRC he had a house on Fripp Island. The OClub bar at Beaufort is called the Santini Room.

Did a tour in the slow country. It’s on the front gate sign!

I was going to say it seemed strange that he was willfully ignoring the article.

Ha, HA! I see your gentle Phantoms and raise it with B52Ds doing a water-injection takeoff:

It’ll be fine. All of this whining is just sour grapes anymore. It’s already fine. As an airplane it’s more than good enough. People like the British believe that so vehemently they’re wrapping an entire capital ship in it’s success.

Ha. F-35 Noise. That’s cute.