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. .

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,

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.

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...

Tactics and standard practices? Not much. It’s the same challenge with aircraft and other mil equipment. We can give the Saudis/Egyptians/other Arab countries all our top gear, but it doesn’t mean jack if they don’t constantly train and have the high maintenance standards that we do in the U.S.

Thank you. I look forward to reading it.

My first question when watching the video was “why the hell is it standing still in the open like that”. Could have broken down or have been previously disabled somehow?

i have talked about this on my old site in great detail, losing before it was a popular concept, a huge post is coming on this