Saber-rattling Chinese, when they’re not fortifying islands in the South China Sea as territory grabs or just giving their usual lip service about controlling Lil’ Kim, get pissy-moany over the capabilities of American radar systems.

The Blackbird could not get anywhere close to Mach 4. It topped out at 3.2-3.3. Most of the technical info on the SR-71 is already declassified.

Both aircraft would rip themselves to pieces, either through compression heating or shock ingestion, before they hit their excess power limit.

A plane is not a car. A higher mass requires more lift to keep in the air. Generating lift causes drag. Therefore, a heavier plane is slower.

the US just needs to keep playing the long game here, wait another 30 years and these will all be underwater anyway.

Odd thing to focus on for a flounder.

She’ll want to be careful, the last time someone humiliated Ted Cruz that badly, he endorsed them for President.

This is the important point to remember, I think. Taking this job wasn’t optional for McMaster (unless, as you said, he wanted to be forced into early retirement).

I can only figure as much, because WHY would they go to bat for this blithering fool of a president? Trump has little to no loyalty to ANY of them, except for the few who openly campaigned for him, and most of them are now in his administration. If the shoe were on the other foot, he’d throw them under the bus as…

In Russia, we put tire in air, then tire flatten car.

Emergency door release should be more visible. I mean, it is usually passengers, not owners, in the back seat, and do owners need to explain safety procedures for every guest?

I’m more upset about the title of the article. It reads like the reason the pilot crashed into the ocean was because the aircraft carrier turned towards North Korea, and the pilot didn’t want to go.

While it’s not quite hundreds of SLCMs (roughly 150), that’s basically an SSGN, which is one bad mutha.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - arsenal ships are the answer. A 40,000-tonne ship laden with hundreds of supersonic missiles is a grave threat, while presenting a significantly lower cost than an aircraft carrier.

I’m surprised that a V6 was able to do that much damage to a London home. Are you sure it wasn’t a V2?

What does God want with a Toyota?

Came here to say this. WWII era bombers aren’t very big.

The Hornet was capable of 32kts and reached 33kts on builder’s trials. 25kts was closer to cruising speed.

What is this Schrodingers carrier?

Are you talk king about the tens column, or just the number ‘2'?