TJ, here's the other side of the coin. While the US is focused on Eastern Europe, and all that entails, the Chinese are scurrying around Asia building an even bigger sphere of influence (whether everyone who borders the South or East China Sea want to or not). Meanwhile, the US is mired in the Middle East trying to…

Conventional war will be the “unconventional” way of doing it from now on.

I still prefer the original.

What would be the reaction if Russia sent a Tu-95 Bear squadron and some Flankers to Cuba “for training purposes”?

Amazing.

^All I did was google “scared robot”

This sensor array looks like the top half of a robot throwing his hands over his head in surprise and alarm. It just does.

This is actually huge. Even if some drones are capable of firing further than six miles, this is just a first step. As this platform improves, so may the range and power output, and a concealed weapon on the surface with even a six-mile range hidden in the flight path of a drone or other aircraft could very…

Maybe the kid was trying to do a gritty alternate history set in the mid 1980s?

So, we now have to wrap drones and equipment aluminum foil?

Wouldn’t the missile just drop out of the sky when it was hit with the beam?

By ‘drones’ you mean anything electronic. It would be equally effective if you put the hypothetical ray gun on a drone and flew it over enemy territory. Everything unprotected becomes a brick.

It’s kind of ironic that the horse calvary is being overflown by helicopters named after Indian tribes: Apache, Blackhawk, and Chinook. But in a way, it’s also a sign of respect for the Native American warriors’ fighting spirit.

Those Ancient Aliens shows on The History Channel say that there is a base on the dark side of the moon where the aliens keep their flying saucers. They also said that the U.S. might possibly have a base or had plans to put a base there that was intended to attack the old USSR. Those shows are crap. Do a YouTube…

this article helps put things in perspective for me. as a GenXer i’ve alway felt a little cheated because I’m a huge space nut, but the last men on the moon happened when i was a baby. and it’s looking more and more like it won’t be my generation that will get the honor of going back. i remember my dad telling me that…

Perhaps. More likely it’s due to congressmen who decided that “wars on *fill in the social issue of your choice*” was a better use of the money. After all, a moon base can’t vote to reelect you.

Go nuts!

Honestly I wasn’t trying to argue with you specifically — more of an interjection into the overall conversation. You were just a convenient point to hit “reply” :)

Nope, not wrong. I was referencing US statistics about guns, availability and misuse - definitely not comparing us to the rest of the world. It’s almost impossible to compare the US with other countries as you say, the variables are too great (as are the historical usages of firearms in a given country). I’m all for…