Gift cards are much more useful for American law enforcement.

You’re right. Storing eggs in drones is a terrible idea.

we do a ton of business with BAe

Surprising until you remember that paying a relatively small amount to a non-American company won’t do anything to pad out the DoD budgets or stuff pork in a congressman’s pet company. Then it makes sense. Now if we could spend $128million per unit for a machine designed in North Dakota, tested in Florida, pre…

yeah coordinated, F-117s tomorrow : )

If I were rich, I’d convert one of these to an RV and use it to take the family camping.

How is it a humiliation? We avoided over reaction and bloodshed and a simple accident was treated as just that, an accident.

“Yeah, well... I’m gonna go build my own littoral ship, with electric power, and blackjack, and hookers.”

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Is this a misleading title?

I didnt even think of the steam valave angle and i think you're spot on. They need to appease those nutjobs so they dont end up doing something disastrously stupid

Yes, exactly. This could have gone the other way easily. This is when it likely comes down to the person in the big chair.

Hahaha it is a crazy ecosystem isn’t it?

Russia could have a tug boat tow the rocket to within 500 yards, no doubt. China could buy a tug boat from Russia with the promise of turning it into a floating casino and then use it to tow a rocket to within 350 yards so long as Russia will sell China an engine for their new knockoff tugboat.

We can appreciate a cool picture and an aircraft’s aesthetics even if we think it is the wrong choice for our forces.

The sole use of these planes is to move around the supercars of the 5000 Saudi 'Princes' and to help them evacuate their gaudy shoe collections and cologne reserves out of countries for recklessly speeding through rich neighborhoods and running stop signs, running drugs, or raping a teenager and claiming you…

Pretty sure the photog(s) would be dead if SF didn’t want to pose for this.

"If there were ever the perfect use for the metaphor "killing an ant with a sledgehammer," the Pentagon's use of fast fighter jets and strategic bombers to fight guys with AK-47s and old Toyota pickup trucks would be it."