I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what Russia’s going to do. Excessive application of tanks does seem to be the time-honoured way of Russia doing battle.

Yeah I’m sorry but they did not have the ‘right’ to annex part of Ukraine. They may have pulled it off without major consequences but it was still wrong. Legally and morally.

Now, how does Russia fit into this simple chart of the Syrian conflict?

Remember the opening of Alas Babylon? It was a strike on Latakia that started ww3.

1. This article doesn’t mention the weight at all, and a marginal increase in weight for the capability to land nearly anywhere for a military or rescue helicopter would be an awesome added capability.

The military does the field testing, at the cost of their lives, then the civvies get it.

Hillary, when she thought her deleted mails were wiped for good:

But that’s a wheel loader.

Mostly it is the movies. Oh we would win, don’t get that wrong, but to do it properly would take more boots on the ground than we ever had in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, and they’d be there for the next quarter century at least, and taking daily casualties. It isn’t winning the war that would cause the problem, it…

I'm surprised that they caught up to him on horseback.

As I understand it, lack of fly-by-wire was a huge part of the reason the Flying Wing didn’t take off when first introduced. The test pilots, who are usually the best of the best, had a hell of a time keeping the thing oriented and heading the correct direction. Now that we’ve got the “software” to match the hardware,…

Big update coming, probably in a new post. One of our readers linked us to new imagery proving that this thing is indeed a full stealth rework of the Hornet exactly as theorized, and was envisioned almost certainly to be unmanned. No trick of the camera or unknown variables at play. Stay tuned.

Well, someone needs to open the rest of those crates and finish the kit. Does Amazon have 50-gallon drums of plastic glue? :-)

That I 100% agree with. The most credible threat we have is that we can destroy an enemy without mass casualties.

It also represents a potential disconnect between the operations of China. Which is a nation that has a pretty healthy history of civil wars that end up decimating incredible portions of the world population, all in China.

Personally, I’ve always hoped that we secretly have a couple kinetic-kill satellites up there for just such an occasion. Oh, your fleet is getting feisty? Here, let me push this button and sink every boat you own with the bloody hammer of god.

More to the point, a mass launch of ballistic missiles would immediately interpreted by both the US and Russia as a nuclear first strike. That would end well.

I should note that the original version of the remake of Hollywood film Red Dawn originally portrayed China invading the U.S., before digitally being altered during post-production to a North Korean invasion to avoiding hurting Chinese moviegoing tastes.

I’m pretty sure the government in Taiwan beat Japan, you guys

Oh China. You’re so cute when you’re angry. I think they have been playing too many video games.