How do ships avoid things like drift nets? Also, if the Sea Hunter is not using an active sonar, how does it avoid junk in the ocean like cargo containers that are floating just below the surface?

How do you board and steer an autonomous boat?

so does the Sea Hunter have an electrified deck like Capt. Nemo’s Nautilus in case anyone boards it?

I love the smell of gun powder in the morning...

Hopefully, these vessels will only be deployed in areas where friendly forces can cover them.

interesting that all of the aircraft on the chart are pointed left other than two of the Red Arrows which, unlike their mates, are pointed right.

Dear Santa,

that’s pretty cool the way they used the paint developed for the F-35 to enhance the F-16.

Jerry is proud of you dude

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on paper, it looks like if the Saudi’s and the Turks decide to become a force to be reckoned with in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq, the Russians will have to make a hard decision whether to counter the Turk/Saudi coalition. The Saudi’s bring 300+ combat aircraft (Typhoon, F-15 variants mostly) plus 300-400 MBTs and…

racking up a new set of pics I hope. Unless of course its from his F-35 portfolio. :)

you can only hope that Israelies slip a couple of lines of code into the domestically built Su-30s that commands them to fly to zero feet ASL in afterburner.

and when the Iranians finally get their atomic bomb together, you can believe that an Osirak type raid will be several orders of magnitude harder due to the S-300 and Iranian Su-30s.

kind of reminds you of the Soul Train television show logo...

“Romantic nuclear missile launch painting...”

Think about the size asteroid they’re talking about, 50 meters.

Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister and Putin’s right-hand man Dmitry Medvedev had some ominous words for the U.S. and its Arab allies ...

yeah, the NYT is without a doubt one of the most objective news sources in the US - as long as the story, or the story reported, matches their view of what the truth should be...

a politician never misses a chance for a great phot op.