Don’t be so naive. The real world isn’t a video game. If it were all about air power, ISIS would’ve fallen a long time ago. The Taliban in Afghanistan wouldn’t have been defeated (in 2002). And if special operations troops weren’t humping it on the ground, lasing targets and providing directions to pilots as to where…

When you need to go door to door or cave to cave and root out the enemy, air bombing isn’t going to work. Do you think the U.S. air campaign against ISIS would’ve made a dent if the Kurds and (some of the) Iraqis weren’t on the ground taking the fight to them?

Yeah you gotta learn to put up with the overwhelming American triumphalism on this site; in other words, the ‘Go-Murrica’ worldview.

‘Regimes like Putin?’ What exactly has Putin done wrong? American’s demonization of Putin has made him only more wildy popular in Russia, did you know that?

Those Russian weapons ... always defying the laws of physics.

Yep, totally agree. However, a lot of our friends on here on FTA have drank way too much of the Kool Aid.

Yup, agree. I’m trying to find this video on the net I’d once seen. A Blackhawk came in for an EXTREMELY rough landing: landed way too fast and hard, and bounced around on its fat tires and threw up a whole lot of dirt and dust. It was practically like a controlled crash. I thought the Blackhawk’s nose was going to…

Why is it Putin the one with “different plans?”

Time for both the U.S. and Russia to bring back the old 16-inch naval guns. Or the highly touted rail guns.

Yeah cuz the black smoke’s kinda fitting.

History does prove it, you’re just in denial, that’s all. The U.S. was Japan’s biggest trading partner until right before the Pearl Harbor attack. England and France were Germany’s biggest trading partners right before World War 1, and World War 2.

Damn. Could we get a little anti-trust chaff in the air to slow down the Lockheed missile salvo?

When the ship hit the water sideways, you know there’s someone in the galley going, “MOTHERFUCKER!!!” to the sound of pots and pans banging and dishes breaking.

Yeah.

Don’t be so naive.

Via FedEx. The ship actually just costs $50 million. The other $300 million is for shipping.

Just about as brilliant, bad-ass, beautiful and British as the Hawker Harrier, when planes were planes, and not software development projects. Sigh.

So that’s what $350 million looks like going sideways.

I think I made you a brother last night. Or was it an uncle? I forget whether it was your mom or sister who took it all. Either way they said they wanted another man in the family besides your dad, so let’s hope it’s a boy, shall we?

Why would Russia make war with China? It’s the Chinese vs. the U.S. Russia is no threat to China’s territorial ambitions, we are.