With what? A slingshot? A blowpipe?

Who will they use it against?

You know those pilots are buzzed out of their minds on some really dank Tripoli Gold weed. Pilot’s probably giggling and flying with one hand on the stick and the other buried in a bag of Funyons.

This is the Russian version of “stealth” —- fly low enough, and no radar on earth can track you. Just gotta watch out for trees and deer.

From the Grumman F4F Wildcats, to the F-111 Aardvarks, to the A-6 Intruder and EA-6 Prowler, and of course, the iconic F-14 Tomcat .... Grumman made some pretty damned good warplanes, didn’t it?

Why? So it can back its ass up properly when it parks on the handicap space on the lot?

“There’s no such thing as a nimble fighter that has a STOVL variant”

That’s ridiculous. Tyler’s been pretty even-handed with the F-35, objectively calling out both its merits and B.S.

Yeah, now you’re finally starting to understand the insanity of it all, and why so many of us are just plain furious and disgusted with the F-35 program.

The pilot CAN’T EVEN TURN HIS HEAD because the HELMET IS TOO BIG.

Excellent, almost common-sense analysis. Of course, asking the military to make sense most of the time is futile. An F-16 would be hard put to stand against a Chinese J-15 or SU-30/33 derivative, with the Viper’s meager 7,000 lb internal fuel load / 300+ mile range, versus the J-15’s 20,000+ lbs of internal fuel /…

If those MIG-21’s are armed with Vympel R-73 air-to-air missiles and their pilots have High Off Boresight helmet-mounted target cueing, those F-15’s and F-16’s are going to be fighting for their lives. In a dogfight within 15 miles of each other, my money’s on the MIG’s and their ridiculously cost-effective air-to-air…

It’s a beautiful plane, in a steampunk-sci-fi sorta way.

Cluster bombs should be BANNED, period. We criticized the shit out of the Soviets when they used cluster bomb weapons in Afghanistan —- especially when not all of their cluster munitions exploded, and some poor Afghani shepherd boy would trip on one and lose both legs as a result.

See, that’s the good stuff right there. Keep that porn coming!

ISIS is different from Al Qaeda. AQ is ebola —- and ISIS is ebola gone airborne.

Hey hillbilly, when you’ve had a chance to get out of the jacuzzi in your pickup truck bed, why don’t you think about getting that GED like you’ve always dreamed of doing.

Obama’s doing that whole distance-peeing, saber-rattling & dick-measuring thing on the wrong front: these bombers (and other weapons) need to be over Ramadi, Anbar and Raqqa.

In some parallel universe, or in my dreams, the B-17 Flying Fortress still flies.

Point taken. But how about the mecha tanks?