Another good article - Thanks Tyler

“Think I can make it through there?” “Nope”

this is what I thought the title was referring to. The -64 flight was just an afternoon fly by.

Happy Anniversary to Coast Guard Air. Thank you for going out when everyone else says, “ah, no.”

Pretty sure the Russians have the same tactical approach that the US uses for mobile air defense systems. You have to pick everything up and move every “x” hours to keep from becoming a push-pin on some artillery unit’s map. So even the mighty S-400 is vulnerable when they’re tearing down, making a road march or…

if these guys are taking down terrorist on the sub or guarding the sub or whatever, why are they driving away from it (note tiller in round mask guys hand and boat wake) in their little boat?

Nice to know that somebody in the region has nukes in a sub that are only a few minute flight times from the bad actors in the ME.

Tyler, please don’t embed auto-start videos in your articles. In the Adam Driver article, both vids start playing as soon as I open the post. I’m attributing this to the way the vids were embedded since your other posts don’t do vid autostart. Thanks.

If they re-engine the B-52s, will they put a fuel injector in each engine’s exhaust so that we’ll still see the trademark smoke trail?

Interesting that the BUFF escapes all of the hatchet wielding year after year by the AF leadership (well, OK, no new engines since each airframe was built but...)

if the US really wanted to send a message to NK, they’d fly three flights of four - B-52s, B-1s and B-2 (or 4 B-52s, four B-1s and one B-2) - in the skies of S. Korea. Just drive back and forth along the border.

Buzz, I usually agree with your posts but I’m not so sure I buy your assessment that the “F-35 is a boondoggle” is a by-product of a major procurement process in the social media age.

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In Russia, helicopter design is form follows function.

Unless there’s some serious foreshortening here due to a long telephoto lens, I WOULD NOT want to be on top of that hill at this instant.

Maybe I just expect that China has hacked everything by now.

One piece of a corner of a building and everything goes to shit.

Actually, Tyler mentioning the LCS was kind of wishful thinking unless one views the LCS role as a “trip wire” so that when China takes an AK-47 and sinks one, the US will get mad.

The only issue is that once China militarizes its islands they could shut down air and sea traffic in the region on a whim.

Kind of off the subject but did the Brits solve the “melt the deck” problem with F-35s and MV-22s exhaust?