Am I the only one that thinks it would be better in the long run to let them have the S China Sea? It seems that the time to confront them has come and gone a long time ago. At this point, confronting them now is just symbolic. China is growing, there is no stopping that. It appears that any attempt to stop that could…

I would prefer to go down in a gunfight than be captured! My initial thought is that escape is probably not going to happen, you are in unfamiliar territory and out numbered. Better to die fairly quickly fighting them or just stay in your plane to the ground

Well the main thing is who funds Hezbollah

I was looking at a video of a Hezzbola convoy. Apparently they have M1A1s now and M113s

We need to team up.

You don’t need thermal tiles like on the STS. All you need is either an ablative coating or a reflective coating. For dealing with lasers.

I am not 100% well versed on DEWs and EMPs, but is this not like the Ranets-E? I know they have been very very tight lipped about that. I am wondering how useful weapons like this are against each other.

I am kind of wondering that to. It actually seems like a building would be pretty easy to harden. And if the power is underground, you might have to attack the power station to know out power.

You make a good point. I am not sure I like the idea of a weapon than leaves the enemy with the only defensive option of using ICBMs

Check out Russian Extreme Off-Road Trucks on Facebook. I think I remember someone making that.

Actually, these things have a really short boost, due to their powerful motors. This makes it hard to detect. With the powerful motors, they have a relatively flat trajectory, so they are harder to detect. Then they are covered in radar absorbent material, to be hard to detect. Under this layer is a layer of thermal…

Yah. And water could help shield the deck of the America class.

Correct, but as a byproduct, the Liquid Sound Suppresion System does do a wonderful job of keeping heat away from certain areas

You make a valid point. Even a plane that can only do 80% is technically more effective if it can do it for 60% of the cost

Makes sense. Leyte Gulf was the largest single engagement in history by square milage, seems like the stuff of nightmares to do without a radar!

Yep. One of those ignorance is bliss kinda things. I am not going to look it up either, but I can probably guess it

Won't set off mines! Silent to subs!

I have been wondering that as well. Not like a mist to slowly cool it, but a torrent of water like under the space shuttle.

Well, most of the woes are to do with the pentagon it knowing what they ordered, not the F-35. I know Lockheed did not pitch it as a replacement for the F-22 or the A-10.

Well pointed out. I was reading that there is enough food made every day for people to eat 3000 calories a day, just kept away from the people by corrupt individuals. Ironically, to fix much of that, you need the above graph!