Leopard II’s I think. There was also a lot of footage of Leopard I tanks with bolt-on armor upgrades.

Hot == thin air

Its painful to hear about a tragedy like this. It will be even worse if the cause turns out to be related to the age of the aircraft though. The warning signs have been there.

Loops and spins are done at recovery height. That’s why each one doesn’t end with a fireball...

Ah, so that’s what they mean by “news cycle”.

War is almost never about good vs evil, its about the people in power wanting more power.

I’m just trying to figure out your logic. You are shaming what the British did in the war as unnecessary, seemingly only because they joined the war before they were directly threatened and the Germans weren’t very good at bombing them. They were fighting for their lives every bit as much as the people of any other…

“Fighting for their lives” would be a lot more applicable to the Soviets.

Honestly they probably won’t be. I don’t think there are many fighter aircraft that fly with full fuel and weapon loads unless there is a certainty that they will be expending a lot of gas at least some of the weapons, because the max takeoff weight is often a lot greater than the max landing weight. I just think they…

Perhaps I did and it was not?

The completely generic and undefined “Mission Effectiveness” metric is hilarious.

I don’t even like CoD in general and I thought the trailer was pretty cool.

No, that was BF: Bad Company: Vietnam. There was a stand alone BF Vietnam between the BF1942 and BF2 games. Good game, but didn’t attract the same following as its predecessor.

When I call it the “Imperial System” I can pretend I’m designing the Death Star.

Engineers usually use whatever measurements will be used in manufacturing. In the US, that frequently means the imperial system.

What exactly makes this statement so astonishing? While RPG is a pretty general term English usage, it does refer to weapons that are designed to penetrate tanks. The proper usage of the term refers to a family of anti-tank weapons (Ruchnoi Protivotankovyi Granatomyot) that the Russians started in 1949 and has…

Just had to go poking the grumpy old Soviet bear, didn’t you?

I mean that helicopters are generally considered far more dangerous machines than other aircraft. “A conglomeration of parts going somewhere to crash”, if you will. Which does make pilot skill rather important.

In Soviet Russia Helicopter crash you.