You need to read the Vader Down comics from last fall

The Royal Navy invented naval aviation, the US just adopted it and expanded it into “what we do” 24/7/365.

If the Russians did an 8 month deployment (and Kuznetsov has been out for 51 days now), at this rate of loss they would lose 9-10 fighters to accidents.

Gas taxes are only a fractional part of bike lane funding in California

Rather than having prototype assault rifles, shotguns, auto-pistols and body armor showing up in late 1917 and 1918...they have them from the start.

WW1 wasn’t the “everyone sits in a trench and lobs artillery for 4 years” war that many think it was - there were untold thousands of night raids, sorties and scouting…

I came into Stapleton once in the summer, June I think, and all I remember was the really hard landing, going back up, back down and the cabin crew cheering. Got off the plane and the hot wind was just roaring that day.

Needle or chair...whatever works

Since when does the Senate decide the presidency here in the US?

Best flag - tied with Saudi Arabia - Mozambique because it has an AK-47 on it.

It’s not really broadcast anywhere in the Americas except for Canada this year. But it’s only the US that ignores it right?

I know a little about the IRS situation. It’s because they use a database web interface that will only work with IE on XP. Even using browser user agent switchers wouldn’t work reliably.

And getting out of helicopters, people forget that the F-16A/B were complete deathtraps until about 1981-82

They put in aerial refueling...so they went pretty far with the changes

There was another big problem with the 1990s plan to re-engine the B-52, it was a lease from Boeing, not an outright purchase.

Ice is water, so water with ice is a kind of water. Or didn't you know that ice is actually water?

The hamster is the dad? Holy crap, now it makes sense to me.

As someone in the US with a legal prescription for Ketamine, just pointing out it's not illegal in the US.