Part of the problem is the MQ-1 doesn’t have space, power, or weight available to handle a lot of the upgrades coming down the path. Improved waveforms, native HD, etc are slated to be MQ-9 only in large part due to the fact the MQ-1 airframe can’t handle much more. Not that the Predators couldn’t be used for other…

Can you? Other than slash the budget?

To what?

“Barely average”? Really? Based on what?

This. During my 15 months in Afghanistan, I ran into this sort of crap time and time again. And not just weapons system. Some douchesnoggle decided it would be a good idea to equip the Afghan army with a computer for every 10 soldiers. This for a force where literacy was around 10%. Wireless data devices for their…

Got this for my 13-year-old daughter for her birthday. I am now the Best Dad Ever. I think young teenage girls are the only ones capable of doing those DIY kits properly

You sound like a fun person

Learn something new every day. Thanks!

The yellow cards carry over matches? I always thought if you got two in one game you were sent off and missed the next game, but if you only got one it went away

Do you have any examples?

Bet if it was the Bush family, you’d care

You must be the life of the party

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You obviously haven’t served on a ship. No captain is going to run a submarine (or a ship for that matter) at flank speed longer than is necessary. Not only does it render the sub blind it also puts a lot of stress on the steam plant. I’m sure NATO would have loved to have a bunch of Alfas pass over the SOSUS line at…

But how, pray tell, would the Seawolf’s speed counter that (also not a “strategic” advantage, mostly tactical)? Agreed the counters to the Alfa were mostly developed out of fear, we know now it was a inefficient death trap. US subs have always been about being quieter than the Soviets. The Alfa was a special case, my…

40 knots is indeed very fast for a submarine, and is probably not too far off reality. Remember high speed does bad things for sonar, both making you easy to hear and making it harder to hear the other guy. And the nuke carrier I was on never made 40 the 3 years I was on it, even during sea trials. Not that it…

Hardly. Submarines don’t hunt other subs at top speed. Sonar is greatly degraded after about 20 knots, and cavitation at high speeds gives away your position. Speed is not an important characteristic for submarines really, unless you plan to be running away from a lot of torpedos

I don't think AA is considered "therapuetic" in that sense. I seem to recall a case where someone confessed to murder in a meeting and that was admitted as evidence at his trial. I am far too lazy too look it up, though. Anyway, that sponsor is totally in the wrong. Part of AA is the assumption that it is safe to…

You can talk via radio to the UAS operator as well. Of course a FAC-A is going to be the best, but IIRC there aren't that many FAC-A qualified A-10 drivers out there.