I agree with you Jerry.

How are bases like this protected?

I think it is 6 in a unit.... and then 3 of these, making 18 in a company?

A google search.... It may not have been a 747 in Havana, but one about to fly there. (the image seemed to be from some families holiday blog ... god love em!)

I don’t agree that the US ‘blinked first’.

All things in this universe are effected by Czar Shirtless....

There is something unifying about the objects being similarly coloured.

Those people have likely never seen a 747, much less had one actually land in their city.

terrific image, juxtaposed against the aged cars on the street.

“If consumed internally, please consult mortician.”

To where?

Good takedown...

The Gripen is no longer the budget fighter it once was.

Those ‘aligators’ look bitchin.

And it used to be a lot higher than that.... but Russia burned through a lot propping up it’s own currency in 2015.

The Kurds in Northern Syria are certainly not ISIS affiliated, they aren’t even muslim.

Whatever Medvedev has said has no relevance

I recall Comrade Medvedev stating that very thing back in October shortly after the Russian campaign started....

It’s 2am and all is quiet in the St Petersburg ‘factory’

I think it has been a burden on their equipment.