I’ll de-humour my post: An extra pleasure for her and a mighty discomfort for him.

Another factor is the lack of urgency; I’m pretty sure that if the Cold war had not ended, F-22, Typhoon and Rafale would’ve entered service by the late 90s, and the Russians would probably turn MiG 1.44 into something useful. Just look at the B-2.

That’s why we discuss things here on Foxtrot Alpha.

Angry and waiting for the June:

Then have some more:

I see it like this: F1 is lame, and so are the residents near the Laguna Seca

Is this it:

They are there for extra pleasure.....

All I’ve gotta say about autonomous cars is this:

But how do you do that without a stick?

My favourite car in the sky:

And ho much would it cost you to buy and install new parts in an old Mustang chassis, and how much would it cost to buy a brand new Mustang? Military budget is given to functionality, not sentimentality.

How about sitting on top of this?

Driving that would feel like:

How about its successor, The Triflux:

Aside from the news wings in the Harrier, PC-9, Hawk, Canberra, Alenia G.222, FN MAG (I really like that example), FN Minimi, Royal Ordnance L7 and Rheinmetall 120mm tank guns, all things Beretta and H&K, M777 and M119 howitzers have entered service with the US military with very few modifications.

Which is basically reopening the production line. A-10s have been hard pressed over the last 20 years and building new examples would make more sense than rebuilding old aircraft, only to find cracks in unexpected areas. Besides all that, no one seems to be talking about engines and avionics

DoD is very reluctant to buy any foreign kit, even if it is superior to the domestic equivalents (Brimstone, Meteor). However, a lot of stuff did sneak its way into the US service, from Harrier to FN MAG.

Russians did copy a lot of western stuff, often coming up with an improved product, but, when working to find a solution to a common problem, common solutions are applied, in industry and in nature - for example, shark looks very similar to a dolphin while working on a completely different principle.

Viper is a massive engine in a pretty chassis, nothing more.