I work on an intelligence gathering and analysis system for the Navy, and I have a master's certificate in Space Systems Engineering, so I'm quite familiar with satellite imagery, its applications, and its limitations. The government has long acknowledged that it limited the resolution of both commercially obtained…

Clickbait. Make outrageous claim about foreign military weaponry, then state nothing that backs up said claim. Typical Gawker.

Does anyone else think it's rather odd that the resolution capabilities of satellite imagery is governed by the Department of Commerce? It seems like that is something better left to DOJ or DOD...

One of my buddies started as an enlisted guy in the NJ ANG, as a boom operator. He's now a KC-135 pilot. I'll have to ask him, the next time I see him.

Something, something F-22, awful aircraft, something, something...

I've actually never been down Micheaux Parkway...I always just thought it was nothing but an entrance to Joint Base Charleston, but now I see that it goes out to Dorchester Road. I was just as the airport for a flight to DC (on a crappy Embraer E-175), and a Dreamlifter took off as we were taxiing out to the runway. …

I work around the corner from the Boeing plant (well, across I-526), and they're gorgeous planes. I still haven't flown one, and likely won't, for some time, as the majority of the aircraft that fly from CHS are short hoppers, but I can't wait!

Would you mind posting your source? It's been a while since I completed my course in orbital mechanics, but I don't believe it's likely that they'd launch something into a 3,600 mile orbit, then de-orbit it, within a four-hour window.

So they invented a new mainframe?

As evidenced by his reply to me, it has been several years since he's touched the Android UI. That said, if you'd prefer to be somewhere that people don't have discussions about relevant topics, you'd be more comfortable elsewhere.

I think the rumors of the Nexus line's demise have been vastly overstated.

You obviously have not messed with an Android phone in quite some time, and you've DEFINITELY never messed with a phone running stock Android or Cyanogen(mod).

I thought there were no guns in Chicago?

Where's the Gen II Taurus SHO that they actually used to use at Bondurant???

I'm not sure that you understand the concepts of drag or terminal velocity.

It will still have parachutes as a backup option, but the engines that Dragon V2 will carry will allow the spacecraft to be landed precisely, such that you don't need an entire flotilla of ships and search aircraft to locate a spacecraft landing in water, or a massive number of aircraft and ground vehicles for a…

I saw a scale model of the Dreamchaser, when I was at Kennedy, back in February. It was only about five feet long, but damn it, that's a good looking vehicle!!!

The vast majority are SM-2, SM-3, and SM-6. AAW and BMD, as far as DDGs and CGs go, are vastly more important than strike.

What's awesome about the SPY radar, is that all the CGs and DDGs have Cooperative Engagement Capability, so they can utilize the radars of other ships and aerial platforms to fire missiles beyond line of sight, and over the horizon.