And why would he bother to acknowledge the help?

Is not just about the port. It’s about keeping the jihadist nutjobs as busy and away of Chechnya as possible.

Nah. The Kurds, Sunnis and Iran-allied Shiites will carve it up. Assad’s not an imperialist and the Sunni provinces won’t ever quit the independent tribalist thing they have going on right now. .

This is ridiculous.

Love the article title image. This actually just reminded me that the first USAF aircraft on-site (F-15 #77-0102) to the twin-towers is actually sitting about 100 yards away from me at the pacific coast air museum right now. Thanks, Tyler.

I’m from Tucson. He probably meant to link to the Pima County MapGuide. Direct link is http://gis.pima.gov/maps/mapguide/…

It’s probably a “proof of concept” demonstrator, much like the Have/Tacit Blue demonstrators were for the F-117 program. The question is, why is it sitting out in the open for all to see ? (i.e. Russians/Chinese). Perhaps a little bit of gamesmanship? Also,

You know the drill Charlie Jane- we shared ours, now we need to hear yours. :-)

Well, the reaction of F-35 fanboys is, simply put, hilarious. They probably assume the Russians will attach slingshots and wooden cannons to their warplanes, meanwhile giving still combat unproven F-35 almost mythical status. Remember F-117 ? It was hailed so stealthy, almost invisible, until it plowed a field in…

this video is private. WHY THE FUCK.

video shows as private, can’t watch it.

Barnacles are exclusively marine, meaning they die if they’re desiccated for too long. They typically live in shallow waters as suspension feeders, glomming onto solid substrates in the water column. I think the main curiosity regarding the barnacles is how/why/where the flaperon remained suspended long enough for…

Being found on a beach indicates it was buoyant enough to float onto the beach, which means it should have been too buoyant to be suspended underwater for any period of time. The most likely scenario is that it was trapped at depth: possibly it was wedged into an underwater crevice or attached to something less…

Yeah, and how did Marky Mark get the video off the Andrea Gail, huh?

Long enough to get home and download the video, my guess would be they are still kicking.

Exactly. I get annoyed when people give credit to the Abrams over the crews in the landslide victory against the Iraqis. I bet you the numbers would have looked pretty much the same if the Iraqis had Abrams and the Americans were using T-72s. There is no substitute for good training.

I’ve heard of at least one RPG-29 ( probable ) hit on M-1 that penetrated .

In the meanwhile, Yusuf was going to the market...