“Faced with a declining revenue stream, there are two choices for most businesses: sell more of your product, or charge more for it.”

Have these stories been around for a while or have they just been declassified?

Lol. Warriors for justice. I’m still waiting on you to lay out the conspiracy of Patton’s auto injury.

You act like we don’t have definitive proof of what a Germany vs England and France conflict would look like. In six weeks the combined French and English armies were decisively beaten on the battlefield and France was forced to surrender.

“What is it you think the UK and France could have done to save countries that they didn’t even have a land route to access?”

Actually, what you need to do is get your head out of your ass. You’ve got a simplistic and uninformed view of history. You say France and the UK did nothing? Of course you use insulting terms instead of referring to them by their name. Only they did do something, they declared war on Germany and as a result suffered…

What aren’t you getting? Legitimacy doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with what Joe Stalin did. The issue was what could we have done about it. We had a handful of nuclear weapons at the end of WWII. They were definitely a fearful weapon but they alone couldn’t have defeated the Soviet Union. There’s ZERO guarantee that…

The numbers were staggering but so were there capabilities. The T-34 is generally acknowledged as the best medium tank of the war, far better than our Sherman and they had them by the tens of thousands. The IL-2 Sturmovik was a war winning attack aircraft and Soviet artillery capability was second to none. It was the…

Yeah, they were invaded by the Nazis and then forced out by the Red Army. An Army that DWARFED the Allies. There was ZERO chance that the American or British public would support going to war against the Soviet Union at the end of WWII. Allied casualties would have at least DOUBLED and there’s still no guarantee we…

The idea that the US and UK had any real way of preventing Stalin from staying in countries that the Red Army was moving through while defeating the Nazis is pretty ridiculous. Short of going to war and invading those countries, what exactly could ANY President have done?

If being vegan is such a great thing why do you want to duplicate products that you’re trying to get rid of? Leather is the skin of an animal that you don’t want killed in the first place. Why not use the obvious non-leather alternative, cloth? Hamburger is the definition of eating meat. So why come up with a veggie…

I imagine the security around those ships must be pretty tight. Small tactical nukes would make quite a prize for a terrorist organization. That or harming the subs while they’re in-transit on the surface.

In the end, that gets to my question. Would we be better off buying some new build F-15s and F-16s versus trying to extend the service life of 30+ year old airframes. One of the risks in rebuilding such aircraft is that an unexpected problem comes up and requires a very expensive fix. There was an accident a number of…

Just to explain where I’m coming from on this. We have a challenging budget situation overall and have some shortfalls in projected procurements as a result. We’re going to need to keep F-15s and F-16s in service far longer than was originally planned. Let’s take the F-15s as an example. They’re proposing extending…

Wouldn’t it be cool if Buick announced the Avista was already for sale and just started taking orders for them. Now THAT would be a show stealer.

I’m surprised they don’t have Putin in these shots. He’d be bare chested of course. Who needs stinking dive suits.

I’m curious, how would you rate the aircraft after its been rebuilt? Is it a band aid or does it truly approximate a new build aircraft?

Thanks for the info. Though I’d disagree that the S-3 AWACS wouldn’t be an improvement over the E-2. Faster transit speed, longer endurance and faster coverage(fixed radome with 360 coverage) would all be welcome improvements.

That’s like saying that because Alabama has won LOTS of National Titles in the past that Nick Saban wasn’t needed there to win another one. Or Kirby Smart running the defense, or how about the players, they only stay 3 years if they’re really good.

You mean for an AWACS version? The triangular radome solved that issue.