I concur with Steve on the spectacle of a GAU-8 firing on a tank. I got to watch an afternoon of live-fire on an M-60 Patton at the 188th Fighter Wing’s range in Fort Smith, Ark. From my spot up in the range control tower, the overlapping sonic booms of the 30mm shell, the report of the cannon itself and the sound of…

I was thinking given this week only 1 of the 6 F-35s could take off due to software issues we might need to keep the A-10s around. Also the Air Force is doing a study on how expensive it would be to build more F-22s. Lets do a study on how expensive it would be to build more A-10s.

A long time ago, when I was a young, impressionable armor crewman, I saw one of these (at either Grafenwöhr or Hohenfels) on a live fire exercise. It seemed to come out of nowhere and made two quick passes on the target - which looked like a BTR-80 - and just chewed it to pieces. Perforated it like a giant soda can…

Oh wow, hey Tyler. It’s great to have you back...

F-16's weapons pylons have a wide variety of uses:

Nice find I was just going to post my version on this story at

If the F22 goes back into production, it’s still not legal for export.

According to people i know that work for SAAB, stealth is quite useless since they only stay stealthy for a short time before there are radar systems that can detect them. Any truth to that?

Between this and the J-31, I don't see the F-35 having a long spanning export market.

U.S. military R&D isn’t about results, it’s about pork and the gravy train.

Never fuck with Israelis. Ever. From the Merkava to basically anything else, they are just as inventive as Brazilians and hold a grudge seven generations down. You gotta love people that fend for themselves.

I second what Let’s just drive and DramaLlamma said. Anyone can aggregate content, cut and paste press releases or regurgitate specs.

Just don’t get them wet

Relax. Tyler was great and we’re all going to miss him. But a replacement hasn’t been hired yet. Collins is literally the main guy from a blog called Truck Yeah! I thoroughly enjoyed this post.

Then don’t read it. Yes, Tyler was was good but life goes on. Who knows, the next one may be better.

So....into the sunset. Mr. Rogoway, your blog is the best thing I’ve ever read on the internet! Well written, factual articles and the best damn comments section in the history of web!

Oh man, I’m both happy and sad. Happy for Tyler to move on to whatever is next that he’ll be awesome at (hopefully we’ll be able to read his stuff consistently). Sad that such a great community is losing its flag bearer.

“you have no fucking clue how much time and effort and energy Tyler put into Foxtrot Alpha.”

Tyler’s writing was of a much higher caliber than most (if not all) of the other contributors at GM. It was only a matter of time before he was snatched away; I know his indepth analysis and insight will find a better home at Time Inc.

“Still, the accusations have seemingly failed to put a damper on the race’s winner”