The reason an Ageis cruiser or destroyer can carry 80+ surface to air missiles is so it can defeat a swarm attack of incoming missiles. It can put 40 in the air, each independently guided, then a minute later put another 40 in the air. Each escort in the fleet can do this. The question is how fast can the laser aquire…

Yeah... Hardy is a force. You just can’t understand a word he is saying because he mumbles with a mouth load of cotton.

The secrecy around the price tag is common sense. If the program struggles, Northrop Grumman doesn’t want to have to spend the dollars on the same PR war Lockheed Martin has undertaken to keep the F-35 from drowning in public anger. Lobbyists went to congress and convinced them that all of this will go a lot easier if…

Unfortunately it takes Ferrari’s to get to targets inside a modern integrated air defense network. Those old F-18's are great... but someone has to clear the way.

Wasn’t there an incident over a tree in the 70's where a bunch of North Korean soldiers slipped into the DMZ and axe murdered a couple of US officers?

Congrats Tyler...

There is a lot of complexity in these large battles. While the majority of the pilots are ‘F1' (activate weapons) monkeys, there are pilots that race in close to pin down the enemy fleet, space preists (Logistics) who repair damage taken in battle, scouts which report enemy movements, stealth bomber fleets which…

Trump has said that our “allies” are going to need to start paying the US to defend them. I would be happy if our NATO friends would just start by spending the required 2% of GDP on defense.

I’m sure if the general was allowed to do what he wanted to do then the entire MEU would be on the ground, but that would be the dreaded ‘boots on the ground’.

A lone firebase in the desert against an enemy that uses katusha’s and chemical laced warheads seems like a bad idea. You need active patrolling, dedicated area drone support and lots of outlying security outposts to keep the enemy from just setting up the rockets quickly, launching, then driving off before the…

Ah I miss all my dead horses, killed by roller skating bears.

I would have been impressed if the Apaches popped chutes and came out ala’ Sheridan style. Now that would have been cool.

You have to admire the strategic audacity of a dictatorship. Putin can run circles around the hand-wringing, poll driven political class in the west. He isn’t done yet either. As long as his money holds out he can continue to intervene to further his goals and the west is too paralyzed to do anything about it. Right…

Georgia is next to be Putin’d on.

Meh... he got tired of Ukraine.... he got tired of Syria.... who is next?

The smoke denies the enemy the ability to use anti-tank guided missiles against troop carriers slowly moving to shore. It can also disrupt laser designators and some types will temporarily blind thermal sights as well.

I don’t see anyway this ends up good unless that sub surfaces somewhere in NK waters. Kim would rather let the crew on that sub die than publicly admit a problem or accept help. I believe the junior members of NK’s military are too brainwashed to execute a complex defection like stealing a submarine.

They could remake the Final Countdown.

Have they tested this on Kerbal Space Program... cause I dunno.

If I remember correctly, NK has roughly 72 hours of fuel for all out military operations. The plan was to conduct a no-notice attack in depth across the DMZ with mechanized forces supported by special forces units. The goal was to surround Seoul, then negotiate a favorable outcome while holding it hostage before they…