This picture really weirds me out for some reason. I think it’s just the juxtaposition of guys in suits and gleaming ordinance with the thought of the downstream effects of it’s deployment... blood, guts, dust, dirt, carnage, and sorrow.

I am not a sad hippy by any means, I was in the USMCR for 8 years in the…

Do me, do me! I’m from the Baltics! Say something about the Baltics!!!

only a solid 8 out of 10. would not have sex with her

(but seriously sounds awful hope she recovers fully)

No I am pretty sure he means the character that guy plays. Not sure why you decided to go out on that tangent based on what is a pretty obvious joke.

Feynman: “You mean you just ASK them?!?”

Don’t get me wrong, I hope nothing happens to the guy, but he did sort of bring this on himself. Too bad he also exposed his family to the risk as well.

Would you say that Russian media is any better? Not that one excuses the other but what is your take on how slant free Russian media is. I am making an assumption that you might have some skin in the game and might have some first hand experience in viewing it.

While the F35 certainly seems like dogshit, who knows... most of that opinion is based on what I see here.

Ejection seats fascinate me so I would fancy myself a bit of an armchair “expert”.

Having been a freefall videographer some of the camera esoterica interests me.

I agree, my foamy edf RC version is great... ergo the real plane must also be great.

That’s something I always wondered about. I knew that the crews rarely if ever fly any given squadron airplane consistently, and suspect that within the squadron their must be some planes that nobody likes for some reason...

So I assume YOUR answer to my 3 points above is “Yes!”.

So let me get this straight.... by your theory:

I’m a coward. I’d want to try and live.

As an armchair pilot (I fly RC and used to skydive and watch a lot of youtube) I wonder if it would work to fly above one of the horizontal stabilizors and then do an aggressive push on the stick to knock it off... your fighter would still probably be ruined and you’d have to eject but it would seem like a relatively…

Yeah I don’t think that’s the one. I specifically remember it being a dude. However, I am sure a lot of pilots had the kamikaze mission potentially.

Today? Probably they are fully juiced.

Before someone pipes up with “bullshit they always carry ammo for the gun for CG purposes”, idaknow, I saw it on TV. MUST be true.

I remember an interview with a fighter pilot sent out over the Atlantic to intercept some incoming airliners that were deemed “suspicious” at the time. He had no missiles or ammo. He would have had to ram the plane.

He had a wife and kids at home and periodically would go off coms and just scream into the cockpit about…