Law or no law, it can’t keep flying forever.

For what we’re talking about, you don’t need to be that stealthy.

actually, the ideal anti-ISIS plane is the Air Tractor AT-802U currently used by the US in South America. It carries 8,000 of payload and can loiter for 10 hours.

Oh, by the way, CAS is here:

Nice article Andrew.

...and what is the lesson for our Norwegian air control friends? Don’t be in the Tarva control tower when F-16s are in the area.

F-35 could have done it in 41 min.

This article is the best that I’ve seen of the stand-ins. I like that Collins took the article further than just showing us the Trophy in action and built out the impact of active rocket/missile defense on the US military. I hope everyone on this side of the comentary is constructive in their criticism to at least…

Hey Drama, given the way that Lockheed has screwed the DoD and allowed the F-35 program to get hosed, I’m not sure having a second supplier - especially someone who delivers “affordable” hardware - is such a bad idea. American defense industries haven’t had the country’s best interest in mind, in my opinion, for quite…

“...the infamous Predator drone...”

Nice video. Next.

OK, I had to stop the playback Egyptian Army band rendition of La Marseillaise because it was so... out of tune. Haven’t these guys heard of lip synching?

umm, the second half of that video shows someone replicating the spinning back tire (presumed without a motor in the “on” position).

semantics. The sentiment is still the same.

Thank you Tyler for being good at what you do. I’ve enjoyed FA and look forward to TheDrive.

What, no F-35 with Tyler’s name on it?!?!? Come on Jerry, don’t let us down now.

with respect, I fart in your direction.

“(I’d love to see the Putin bots sicced on a number of contributors on GM, incidentally.)“

Notice that “legislated” is in quotes.

Will China or Russia have 25, 50 or 100 Gen 4.5++ or Gen 5.0 aircraft in the next five years?
Orders in place for F-35 through Nov 2015 total 237 aircraft, split as 157 A, 52 B and 28 C, for just the US alone. We’re so fricking ahead of the threat, its ridiculous.