Ever been supported by one? It’s fucking terrifying and awesome all at the same time.

Reading this over and over.. trying to decipher if it’s sarcasm. .. this IS sarcasm right?

I’m prone to maybe a bit of hyperbole, but Oppo was taken over by teenagers a couple years ago and the quality of the comments on most Jalopnik main page articles is about equal to Reddit or a moderately good Disqus comment section—that is to say, it is far lower in quality than it was in its earlier days. It’s still…

Based on our previous debate on the MANPADS/Syria issue, I looked into your assertions about the system’s being in theater already, and here’s what I found (that I can post publicly).

I’m really not sure. I saw it on flightglobal months ago under the article about the AC-130 that was written off because it attained an accidental inverted attitude. Not sure if this is a picture of that event or just a picture somebody spun around. Google AC-130 inverted and you’ll find the same pic spun around. But,…

Hey I spent a few years getting tossed against bulkhead walls chasing commie subs around the North Atlantic. Soviets...Russians, same difference....

You don’t want to know.

“A10 > any gunship.”

We need the FA crew to take over the main Gawker writing duties.

Don’t care about the aircraft but I don’t want to see any more pilots killed in cold blood. They’re just like our pilots. Young, dumb and full of cum. They’re proud, patriotic, and undoubtedly are little more than pawns for Putin. Id assume most of the Russian military believes what the Kremlin tells them.

^What he said.

Resistance is futile

Sir, may I suggest that if you’d been issued a mustache as spectacular as Roar Strand’s, these mechanical failures might not have occurred?

I just sat down for lunch and this article popped up. Now I feel like a real life Carls Jr. commercial.

Only if everybody gets 5. Pulling your hand away gets you sent to a gulag as an imperialist reactionary.

They counter-rotate which cancels out the torque created, eliminating the need for a tail rotor.

Measures. Check.

Tyler, Mi-28 has been in Syria since mid-October:

In other words, these high-end attack helicopters, when properly equipped, are far more suited for a battlefield with a MANPADS threat present than their predecessors.

The issue with CFTs is that OUR F-16s don’t have the plumbing or structural additions to support CFTs. It would be an expensive modification which is why we didn’t buy any CFTs for our own use. Not because the USAF doesn’t understand the value of CFTs for F-16s even with all our other advantages.