It pains me to say this because of the content of this article but there are an embarrassing amount of spelling and grammar errors within it.

I hope the USMC makes the same decision. The legacy Hornet mishap rate seems to be increasing.

That and the fleet has been flogged to death by 15 years of unceasing war abroad.

Quite a few hornets have been lost in the last year.

I’m sure it got plenty, that’s the trouble with our aging 4th gen fleet, the high hour airframes both require lots more maintenance than lower hour aircraft and are less reliable despite these increased maintainer costs.

I hope the member of the Navy’s Army’s Airforce is found safe and well.

It’s an improvement. Another defense blog talking about the recent losses on the Kuznetsov talked about losing a MiG and a Sukhoi... then showed a Rafale landing on the de Gaulle as the main image.

Its one aircraft carrier actually works, whereas the Russian one does not.

China has a far superior navy to Russia’s

Run that number again if you reduce the US pay/pension/benefits costs by 90%

Not with a cruise missile; American missile tech is massively dated, much more so than Russia’s CIWS tech. A subsonic Tomahawk is basically useless for ship-to-ship actions, and the Harpoon is too short-ranged. Contrast this to things like the SS-N-22 Shipwreck, a Mach 3 freight train loaded up with 1,500 pounds of…

Which ones? The F-35 flies just fine these days. It’s taken too long to get there, but it does fly. I guess if you want you can go back to early 2009 when Obama cancelled the VH-71 helicopter after $4.4B had been spent (how the military spent that much on a helicopter based on an existing model, and knowing that it…

Rolling coal:

You lost another jet!?

Countries that want to project power/protect their foreign interests without causing World War 3, I guess?

Seriously, brah? You don’t journalism much I guess

I really LOVE the not-politically correct Donald! ...Taiwan is a good ally of the western nations, and a sizable economic power. Pretending it doesn’t exist, is just idiotic and the great People’s Republic of China will have to deal with it, just supposed they still want to go on manufacturing our iPhones and such!

You are correct.

And if Trump did not accept the call from President Tsai Ing-wen, the press would be calling him a puppet for China.

So was he a General at the time or was he on the board when he made the call? The timeline in your article is not very clear.