after watching the video, I say dump the F-35 and go buy Gripen’s. What you lose in absolute stealth, you make up in numbers. At $50-60m each, you can probably buy two Gripens for each F-35.

I’d give more stars if I could.

Russia should have dug up some Mig-17s or -19s (North Korea probably has some squirreled away in a mountain somewhere) and save the flight time on their SU-30SMs. All the SU’s are doing is flying out and back with the bombers.

is it me or do most of the people in this picture appear to be there courtesy of photoshop or CGI?

Hello. Everyone. You’re going about this all wrong. All of you big league countries can provide CAP to protect against ISIS attack aircraft. But the way to eliminate ISIS is for the nations of the Middle East to put together an army and go hunt the ISISers down one by one and behead them. Until you do that, the…

I think we’ve structured the fight against ISIS wrong. We need to tell all of the Arab/Moslem states who are opposed to ISIS that we’ll provide the air cover and bombing support for you but you need to put together the army to march into the heart of ISIS-land and behead the assholes.

I’d be interested in hearing from your Muslim friends why there has been no public condemnation, at least on a country level, by the Muslim religious hierarchy?

At that point, the PC bullshit needs to go out the window.

They do not understand peace, only violence changes their resolve.

given the fact that ISIS controls quite a chunk of land in the Iraq and Syria and the inroads that ISIS has made in North Africa, I think your characterization of their followers as weak and stupid is inaccurate.

one of the CNN reporters, supposedly relating a confidential CIA source, said that the US is worried that this same sort of thing could happen in the US because of the ready availability of guns.

would have been way cool if they had flown the FoN part of the mission that was over the reeflet, or Isreef or what ever you call what China is building, at 200 feet ASL.

great post. All of the IRIN personnel were wearing life jackets. Somebody must have worried that the “super” torpedo might not work as advertised.

Thanks gunner. The Navy could buy one less F-35C and pay for defense systems for all of the USNS ships.

There’s an attachment to the main article that is titled, “US Navy Looking to Arm Its Logistics Ship...”

yeah, I agree. The original (italicized) comment comes from Box1813, Roadster Driver who seem to think that the Army had a pretty big fixed wing fleet.

Since the Army makes heavy use of warrant officers, there are very few commissioned officers who have any flight time. That translates to a leadership structure with only an effects-based understanding of airpower. They have little understanding of mechanical and personnel limitations.

your stated doctrinal differences between the forces boils down to 1) warrant officers aren’t capable of flying anything other than helos and2) because the Air Force has a command and control infrastructure which makes the Air Force superior.

The A-10 thing is a political shit-show that has nothing to do with the division of rotary and fixed wing assets.

thanks