Next up: Blackwater gets a contract to form a parachute brigade.

Wait, are you actually seriously thinking that A-10 should be used as a firefighting aircraft? I thought you were just ranting on how they should be given to the Navy’s Army’s Air Force, but this.....DAMN!

Aerial firefighting has multiple purposes, ranging from first response to accessing unreachable areas, and it is never meant to be the sole method of fighting a wildfire

We can start using F-35s as the lead planes for the air tankers (firefighting aircraft).

We are discussing the use of MANPADS.

Clickbait has peaked with that dumb headline.

Besides being the most effective way to fight wildfires at large scale, yeah, I don’t really see any evidence of its effectiveness.

You have a fiscal logic of an 8-year old child.

I’d rather say that its biggest disadvantage is $$$; I’d say they are a bit pricy per flight hour, when compared to helos and fixed wing water bombers.

A week ago, I actually told Putinbots that I would join them briefly, just to take a piss, but I really didn’t know how to start, what to write.

Military, aviation or naval history of the 20th century.

Regardless of what do you think or wrote regarding the original topic of discussion, you have presented us with an information or an idea, which I consider false, and I have written why do I think so.

Nitpicking, it’s medium altitude, if you want to be technical. Wast majority of the strikes have happened from the altitudes that are detrimental to accuracy.

I didn’t know that, but I would certainly like to know more facts about it; whether if it was Ballaban who had done that (won’t be the first time), and what exactly were you saying.

Actually, of all the nuclear subs that are lying on the bottom of the sea, none has (yet) emerged as a serious ecological hazard. Nuclear reactors are usually much more protected than usual fuel bunks, and the fuel is less dense than water so it floats to the surface and the washes up on the shore.

No. Who is he and what is that?

The problem is, lately he doesn’t seem to be interested in the comments unless they say things like “great article” or “I was there, man”.

I definitely agree with that; the best example is the article that claimed that S-400 drove NATO aircraft away from the western Syria, when in fact, they have never operated over the western Syria.

The whole “show pending” issue deeply sucks, all because of some precious little flowers on Jezebel who got upset over some stupid shit. If editors see a seriously inappropriate comment (or something they don’t like), the can simply delete it (as Ballaban did here when I have posted a photo of a man in a suit with his…

SVP-24 is nothing more than a new navigation system for Russian combat aircraft (some sort of INS + GLONASS). The problem is, Putinbots and the Russian state media have claimed that it significantly increases the accuracy of high level bombing, up to the JDAM levels, which is physically impossible.