Anyone who thinks a planeload (or ten) of small arms registers as even the most minuscule blip on the balance sheet of Pentagon contractors is just totally out of touch.

That’s where R2D2 sits.

He’s offering a self-issued certificate of authenticity with his own signature. Seems legit.

It’s already out of control. It’s just a matter of time before something like this happens, regardless if this event is true or not. Too many trigger-happy wannabes with something to prove.

I, too, hope the reports are untrue.

Turkey is, from a strategic perspective, one of, if not NATO’s most important member. All of us Russia’s actions to protect their naval bases in Crimea and Syria will be for nought if Turkey shuts down the Bosphorus straights. That and their proximity and access to Russia without overflights being necessary makes our…

Not only knocked out in the first quarter, but on the first offensive play of the game. His leg looks like Harry Potter’s arm after Gilderoy Lockhart tried to fix it.

Even if this story is complete bunk, it’s only a matter of time before a Russian jet goes down, be it from malfunction or a surface to air missile. The Russians are flying 40-50 year old airframes that have been sorely lacking in maintenance for more hours than they’ve seen in years. Not to mention the proliferation…

Let’s hope the report is false. And if it *is* true - let’s hope it was a Syrian aircraft, and not Russian.

Sexy footage, too bad he/she couldn’t hold his phone the right way to film. :(

These videos are dick-waving. Period. Granted, the Hind is a formidable weapon, but dumb bombing, flare-dropping, and various hoonery is not meeting any objective.

Perhaps not.

Ironic because his wife’s game says it has in app purchases on the Play store.

Let them all kill each other now. Our chance to positively effect the course of events in Syria has come and gone, and the only good option is to write it off and watch the fireworks. It would be supremely stupid for us to arm any group in the region with MANPADS (tempting though it might be), as none of them seem to…

A helicopter dropping bombs, that just seems odd to me.

I would be absolutely shocked if those kind of tactics didn’t backfire and end in disaster for the russian pilots.

Thank you for your support. We here in the Baltics appreciate it.

Holy shit, is this real?

It's ЭКЖС-40, an anti-rust paint with red iron oxide. On larger ships, the weather deck is usually painted with a darker shade of the paint. Other navies have a similar anti-rust coat applied, but they normally paint over it with a more neutral color.

Interesting! I had always heard the exact opposite. That endurance-run-hunting was the reason human beings can out-endure almost all other mammals. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…