He must not have checked the tire pressure. Obviously the right rear was off by .5 psi.

Speaking of atrocities of war, a friend of mine was at the Yalu River in maybe 1954? Anyways his company turned their Anti Aircraft quad .50’s mounted on half tracks against the hoardes of Chinese attacking them. They literally mowed down thousands of men, most of which were unarmed. Talk about atrocity. The Chinese…

If the politicians didn’t get involved MacArthur and Lemay would have not let the formation of a North Korea ever happen.

“Excuse me Captain Tupolev, there are people on that beach-”

Ask the families of the 20 million plus dead that thought the same thing about Stalin

The Turks are ass holes. They would grant us over flight approval just to pull it 5 minutes outside their airspace forcing us to go back to Spain, Germany etc. NATO members sure, but they didn’t act like it. Only place where I landed and got met with a rifle in my face and that includes Saudi, Kuwait etc. Allies is a…

Still looks like a tank. The typical Haji would spray and pray at it like any other tank.

That’s what I’m saying! Hot as shit, lugging all that gear around and “ice cream truck!” Who wouldn’t want a Rocket Pop in those conditions. Surprise we have missiles not drumsticks. Bang

I understand that. But it’s not like these tanks operate alone. Other armored vehicles are typically in the same company and carry missiles as well. All I’m saying is this is a MBT. If I was to disguise it I would make it appear to be a support truck or something of the like.

What’s the point? It still looks like a Merkava and if I’m the enemy I’m going to be just as concerned about it as I would a missile launcher. It’s not like it’s designed to look like an ice cream truck it’s still a damn tank.

Good thing your wife hasn’t checked to see if your barrel is crooked either.......

Marketing. There is no such thing as Military Grade aluminum. 7075-T6 is the same whether it’s on a refrigerator or a fighter jet.

KAWASAKI Z750s. 2006. Turned it into a street fighter style before that became popular. Made the bike into essentially the Z750r sold elsewhere because we couldn’t buy them here. Dual headlights, inverted forks, etc. Because I love it.

Cartels. Key customer here. Then maybe Iran.

You are correct. I wasn’t aware F-X was complete. However I read they have options to procure other aircraft such as they Typhoon. Only 40 F35’s are being procured at this time.

They have no other option. They can get a stealth 5th Gen fighter which is good. However it’s not great at any one thing and can’t dogfight WVR. It’s going to be a problem for them and us. More so them. They don’t have F22’s to run CAP for them like we will.

Look I know they are buying them but some are not. Korea ring a bell? We’ve left them with no other option.

How is it going to strike with limited internal stores space? I don’t know the full specs but I’m sure it will be holding at least 2 air to air missiles in there. What’s left for ground attacks? And do we really think the brass will want this expensive single engine jet down below 15,000 feet for CAS? Maybe if you…

No way. I’ve already heard horror stories about our aging F15 and F16 fleet from some of my AF friends. We are going to be severely shorthanded in about 10-15 years unless we do something.

Exactly! F22 evolution, buy more F15’s (SA with our radar upgrade) and Block 60 Vipers with the same. The rest of the mission be handled by UCAVS. Our allies aren’t going to buy this POS like they do F16’s and God help them if they do.