“...NASA not-yet-profitable deep space and exploration missions...”

We still have the same amount of poverty since LBJ started it and the same issues that went along with it.

good info, Thanks.

Interesting U-turn for the pointy nose hierarchy of the Air Force to figure out that their solution to the drone headcount was 180 out from the right solution.

Does the Army fly Reapers or Predators?

you know what they say, “An Osprey hanging off the deck is worth two in the water.”

So what happens if the aggressors win?

seems to me that the biggest trait of the Kilo’s to exploit is their need to snorkel. Presume a P-8 or Triton can detect the snorkel but at what range?

Howe and Howe Technologies has already built an amphibious tracked armed vehicle that can meet all of the requirements. Well, it does have to be stretched to carry 11-13 troops. Check out the video below. If you want to skip to the water entry at speed, jump to 32:00.

yes sir, yes sir, yes sir...

“And the names of yours are more inspired with Zumwalt, Michael Monsoor and Lyndon B. Johnson...”

Sounds like a plan. Put a variation of the 155mm M777 in the two forward turrets, put another VLS cell where the stack is on the original design, and put a CIWS every 20 feet along the rail to provide the “Death Blossom” effect for incoming missiles.

oh hell yeah

...and the argument for multi-gun armored ships begins to make sense again! (probably not e36Jeff’s intent)...

“...even the stealthiest aircraft is not invisible to radar; it simply has reduced detection range and this may vary greatly depending on what angle the stealth aircraft is at in relation to the sensor radiating it and what wavelength/band/frequency that radar sensor is operating on.”

good point about drone defense. A small multi-rotor drone might be too small for the ship’s electronic defense to target or even see.

wonder why, if the hits on fuel trucks are A-10 runs, they didn’t just start at one end of the line and go down to the other end? The fuel truck hits in the video seem to be “statement” hits, “see, we can blow you up if we want to...”

who’s going to keep the Russians in the mid-Atlantic so that they can’t spy on what goes on?

looks like there are, once again, Saudi ties to a likely religious extremist related terrorist act with the mass shooting in San Bernardino. Farook went to Saudi Ariabia, got a wife and came back a “religious” man. The end result, 14 dead.

Oh come, they have barely targeted ISIL.