Right. You did your homework

Got you.

You know that they sent a man to the space before the US did? Where were you, your dad and all of the US on that one my dear?

Chieftom, after reading your comments here I wanted to add something. You seem to be thinking that having F-14s in the fleet air defence role would garantee carrier's safety in the hypothetical conflict with the Russian naval assets. I personally don't think so ( also the US chief of naval operations in the 70's has…

If I didn't catch the joke right away, I apologize. Lot of sentiment out there nowdays. It reminds me of not so distant past...

I though it was us here in the US who were pretty much the fattest, laziest and often least educated in the industrialized world. If you think otherwise, go to a nearest Applebee's and see yourself.

My friend, you had to many coffees this morning thinking that everyone who displays a different opinion about F-35 than yours is a troll. So much for respecting everyone's input on this board. Only when it fits your ideas, right? As far as wishing that F-35 were in service. Think twice my friend. When they finally get…

If you think that F-35 will be a success story, you might get ready for a huge disappoinment. So far nothing but delays, massive cost overruns, enormous projected operating expenses at 44k per flying hour & multitude of software issues. Also this 400 billion plane doesn't have a working cannon to be able support the…

It is a beautiful plane.

It really depends where the hits are. Some areas are more vulnerable to the missile strike while some others are much less. Remember the story of Bismark hit in the rudder by a torpedo from an obsolete ( in WW II terms ) British Swordfish.

Good one! Lot of typing though

The first one was that battery's command /fire control vehicle. Normally each battery has two of those attached for C3 functions. Its 336th Marines on the exercise.

It looks like a BMD-1 or BMD-2. Russian airborne forces "truck of choice".

There is no definite consensus on who shot it down my friend. My guess if they had it, they would have already presented it It comes from the authorities to which the plane did belong ( in this case Malaysian ). But we all know who shot down Iranian commercial plane in the Gulf in 1988 in Iranian air space. And who…

When I saw this ship in the service of the Soviet Navy docked right next to us as "Baku" it had pretty capable AAW systems. In fact all Soviet/Russian capital ships had plenty of those goodies. I wonder if specifications for the Indian Navy were very different than ours and they omitted them. Who knows.

Your knowledge on this subject is irrelevant. It's actually below zero. If you knew anything about the mode of operation with or against the US carriers on real deployments ( I have 3 of those ) you would have known that in the real wartime this ship would of been sunk/heavily damaged. Remember a thing called Pearl…

You should tell that to the pilots of the Russian Air Force who overflew Kitty Hawk in the Western Pacific in 2002 & then emailed surprising looks on the deck crew's faces to the ship's captain. It will give them a good laugh.

I agree. I remember after the first Gulf war I was reading about their 'amazingly high" 44% success rate against a missile system that was adopted by the Soviet army in 1955 & thinking it doesn't get better than this

In theory my friend any Aegis equipped ship can protect itself from any threat. In reality there is a big gap between of what this system said is able to do & what it actually CAN do. Let's take a look at two separate instances when USN ships were faced with the threat of ASM missiles. We all know what happened to…

Overall it would not handle it very well. During my days in the Navy, they figured out that after firing 20-22 high-speed ASM's at the average carrier group it's ability to shot down incoming missiles decreases sharply. So they would practice hitting it with 30-40 units coming at the same time from the different…