The “easy” fix regarding connections would be to modulate it all onto a single RF carrier, run the connection through a relatively simple 1 or 2-channel rotary joint (depending on whether you want to separate the opposite direction onto a separate physical channel or just a different frequency), then demodulate back…

T-tail shape perfect for placement of LDSD AESA, or AWACs radars

Obama, the guy that had Osama killed and his dead carcass dropped into the ocean? The guy that is willing to kill bad guys with hellfires in so-called friendly countries? The guy that authorized the Stuxnet cyber attack on Iranian centrifuges?

Shut up.

Hi! You seem pleasant.

I didn’t intend to move the goal posts, I’m just trying to explain why an over-dominating navy isn’t really necessary. Not only to we have superiority in the sea, but we do in the air as well.

Great Britain was Germany’s largest customer before WW2. At some point “they are our largest customer” becomes less important.

What the fuck is wrong with you, exactly?

If the internet existed 150 years ago you would have said the same thing about the USA annexing Native American territory, but now that it’s long in the past everyone accepts it as normal. For as much as Americans love to remember the Holocaust they seem to forget just about every other genocide in history. Every…

The f-35 engine now fits in the v-22 with a special packing case. One advantage over the c-2 is the ability to deliver supplies from land straight to almost all navy ships or from the carrier, these days it has to go on a c-2 then a helicopter or underway ship to ship transfer. However the c-2 will be missed and in a…

Excellent choice, RoK.

No female soldier so it fails and therefore it is blatantly sexist ;)

I grew up in Groton, CT as a Navy brat on the submarine base there, and we spent a lot of time on the water on our boat out of the base marina. Nearby were a few drydocks, and the subs would come in and get floated out of the water for maintenance. I always remember them throwing a large canvas over the props so they…

This is actually so accurate it hurts.

Oh, you can do better than that.

I guess we got a Lucky Strike with Marlboro Man

His uncanny ability to survive over a terror career spanning more than three decades is said to be due to his ability to melt into the local populace, taking wives throughout the region. He is considered to be one of the most hardened and experienced terrorists in the world, as he learned to fight with the Mujaheddin…