But it’s so crazy deep in the turret! It will deflect any round straight into it, including small arms. Used to be a stupid idea shooting your rifle at a tank, but if you can blind the thing, it just became great fun. That’s not likely in many scenarios, but in urban combat, it’s a certainty. So strange.

Bad news CINC, we lost a Nimitz Class. Good news! We killed the 60 guys who did it! :D

Tyler, did anyone say why they don’t put tubes on these things? Lengthen it 5m, put on a few Mk-54 tubes, or lengthen it 10m & make them Mk-48’s. If you’re going to scare the sh*t out of them when that high freq sonar opens up from 5 km away, then call in the cavalry, why not just finish it off yourself & put them out…

Yes, but if you have 3-4 of them along with every Carrier Battle Group, who’s going to know? The support ships are already there. You’ll have to catch them refulling every 4-6 weeks & you’ll likely never know exactly how many are in the area. Of course, keeping up with a +30kt CBG ain’t easy for a diesel boat...…

Do we yet know what is behind these huge holes in the turret’s armour?

Tyler, we need a -1 option.

Fcuk, what a tragedy. RIP to the 4 who never made it out & best wishes to the 2 who did.

Robert E. Lee might be against it, but Sun Tzu would call it genius. Win a war with not a single friendly casualty? Sorry, but war isn’t supposed to be fair & any general who says otherwise has an ace up his sleeve.

Least they didn't sent the Caspian Sea Monsters!

This just highlights again the danger these guys put themselves through to showcase their skills for us. It's always shocking when this sort of thing happens & always a blessing when everyone walks away.

How do they get a pilot to fly these missions? With manpads & huge amounts of high calibre machine guns, not to mention AK's since these things are armoured with 1mm thick aluminium. I figure either the pilot says no or he says yes but his balls are too big to fit into the cockpit.

Wow, I'd have thought it would be damn tough to prove a B-1 made your horse step into a hole. I guess if it keeps the locals on side though, a couple of grand is a worthwhile investment.

Great to hear from someone who's lived the life. To be honest I think what the Navy does with the 2 squadrons in question is largely out of scope on the issues you bring up. As long as the standard of the pilots is up to scratch, for most missions it shouldn't matter where they frames & crew come from. You'd think…

You had me at hello. Personally I could start a funding conversation with "if you just cut 1 squadron of F-35's you could fund..." at least as many times as there are scheduelled F-35 squarons. Seriously though, it's hard to believe anyone is thinking of cutting Spec-Ops related capabilities in this climate. What…

Are you trying to make us all cry?

Tyler, can you implement some kind of double, triple, quatruple star system please? I keep mashing the star button but it doesn't go up any.

Hope it didn't spook the game too much.

EPIC video, the unintended commentary only made it better.

I hear ya. Maybe in rolling seas there is some benefit to floating your precision control mechanism out in front of you manually that we can't discern.

Not that a new Bone would be a bad idea. More efficicient engines, airframe & wings, bit of RCS reduction if possible, & reduced maintenance requirements. You'd have a super heavy bomber with long range, great role versatility & fighter sprint speeds. If the russkies could do that, they would have a kickass bomber…