I think that problem lies in the historical disagreement between the Air Force and the Navy,not to mention the Marines’ own air force. Air Force won’t even consider operating the same aircraft as the Navy, and by logic, naval aircraft have to be equal or better than their land-based equivalents.

And ignorance with yours. If our leaders don’t do something to defuse the situation, the old Cold war that you have described could be our future. I know that Russians are broke, but the Chinese aren’t. And lets not forget that desperate men resort to desperate measures.

Exactly. Another good analogy are the newest Chinese and Pakistani cruise missiles, made by reverse engineering components from Ukrainian-sourced RK-55s and Tomahawks that have crash landed in Pakistan back in 2001.

Yeah, when I was a kid, I had a “cockpit” under my desk, made of joystick and some random old electronical components.

That’s even cheaper that Typhoon, and can actually carry everything it was designed to do. I actually think that Rhino is the most complete combat aircraft in service today - a superb fighter, proven, reliable, great avionics, can carry everything in the inventory and is in mass production.

Holy shit! Did you have to fly that one with MS DOS commands?

It depends on what your meaning of the word is is.

Your comment is a great example of your ignorance. It actually proves that you don’t read the news (well maybe Fox news or Buzzfeed).

No, you are wrong about that. Operation Neptune is the largest amphibious operation ever; 156,000 troops were landed in the initial assault on the 6th of June, with that number climbing up to a million in the following weeks.

My childhood gave me a heavy bias towards all things F-14:

That’s quite interesting, I didn’t know that. What I meant was a hypothetical replacement for the F-16 that would be procured instead of the F-35, perhaps implementing lessons learned from X-29 and X-31.

Australians have wanted to buy them but the DoD said no. F-22 is off limits for even the most reliable of the US allies.

But the thing is, how do you justify to your public a desision to cancel a project that went too far to be cancelled or significantly reduced to spend even more money on another one?

In the ideal world, I think that a high-low mix would be the best solution; meaning operating a mix of ultra expensive and ultra capable 5th gen fighters like F-22 (not F-35) and equally impressive but and non-stealthy more easily replaceable 4th gen fighters like Typhoon or Super Hornet (basically, a successor to…

Congratulations $Kay! Here is a lovely Ford that will be delivered to you by this guy to you as soon as he stops acting and goes back to racing:

Damn! Well, it’s hard to reason with a person who doesn’t want to accept the fact that his nation had done a major crime.

I do agree about one thing - Arabs cannot work with democracy. That’s why I also agree that Assad should win this war. But I also think that he should be replaced by someone else once the war is over and brought to justice for his crimes.

Iraq war was over before the sectarian politics of the Maliqi’s government and the spillover of the war in Syria reignited it, Libya would be peaceful had the UN peacekeeper been deployed, and Afghanistan, well that was never going to be easy.

You are a dumbass. You are attempting to distort the widely known facts. First, I do know that other parties in that war were no angels, but the blame for the worst of the crimes falls on Serbs. That same court had declared it a genocide, not a mass murder. Ethnic cleansing as well. Serbs are the ones who have…

I think it’s actually an issue with Kinja; it has been on the fritz since December.