Yeah awesome footage.

If I remember correctly, the Pave Low crews would dump a whole box load of IR Chemlites on the desert floor as they flew in at specific waypoints so the Apaches could update their less accurate Doppler navigation systems. The Doppler was pretty accurate as long as you had regular known fixed points, but along the…

If you have never been there, I cannot stress how intimidating these aircraft are when they are coming in to land and you are standing right in front of it trying to hold your ground and guide it into the LZ.

What would be an interesting think-tank exercise would be to match up the 2016 USN fleet vs the 1991 USN fleet. Line them up in the Indian Ocean 2000 miles apart and let them go at it in some giant simulation. Surface, air and sub forces included.

Lots of AIM-7's fired which weren’t the most accurate or reliable.

Sure... guess we just should have forgotten about the children in Kuwait too.

It was an attempt to get the young iPhone/selfie/Gawker crowd to collectively shit their pants because some mad man sitting in Pyongyang might deny them their constitutional right to text/vogue/gawk.

How many non-US nations can defeat a modern Russian integrated air defense network with S-400's, short -mid range SAM’s, and Su-whatevers?

The US could probably find a lot of cost savings by forward deploying subs like this in the Mideast, Pacific and maybe the Baltics. They appear to be capable, modern, have shallow drafts and are affordable. When a crisis emerges surge the nuclear boats to the region when you need larger magazines or longer endurance.

I love the black smoke pouring out of the back of that plane. Just iconic.

Hey I really think the repositioning of the French carrier is a result of the availability of support assets in the region. Tankers, search and rescue assets and primary divert fields will all be in Iraq. If the French carrier is operating in the Med and there is a problem, the pilots are in much more peril by having…