In almost all cases, aircraft are identifying themselves so as not to get blown out of the sky. In this case, the aircraft was either not squawking or was on an incorrect frequency.

Call the engine family by it's original name - TwinForce.

Yeah, and Kinja isn't letting me update.

Yes. Correct.

Now, in that case, and I have a lot of experience with AEGIS, though not those ancient baselines, the story was that the Identification Friend/Foe (IFF) noted that the 747 was squawking on an enemy channel, and the system and/or operation identified it on an incoming attack vector, rather than the correct vector,…

And that's one of the main reasons I'm waiting for the 2016!

To be fair, the USS Vincennes classified an Iranian 747 as an Iranian F-14.

What weighs more? A pound of Alcantara, or a pound of bricks?

More than any of those reasons - world police.

Adopt me?

10/10.

Or, maybe the US leveraging smaller items, like handguns and armor, means that it wants to focus on the bigger, more expensive stuff. One look at Australia's inventory shows that there are no indigenously designed and built major weapons systems. One look at the US inventory shows that every major weapons system is…

Considering the vast majority of your air and sea fleet is US or Great Britain designed and built, I'm not sure you have much to stand on. Australia might have the ability to modify another country's design and assemble it, but designing, integrating, testing, and fielding complex weaponry seems out of Australia's…

Except for, you know, not being able to design and build the plane, itself...

I just happen to have that P-51, farthest away, tattooed on my forearm. This is a crappy selfie of it...

Now that's what I call canyon carving!

The Zumwalt-class uses a tumblehome hull design, rather than the more traditional flare-hull design. It's supposedly more stable in tough seas, but they have a tendency to pitch downwards when hit with a large wave, and...continue downwards.

Also, it's tough to prove a point when you make yourself sound like a dick.

I get that the overall work in Washington is greater, but the amount of expansion that's planned for North Charleston is insane. They've bought up basically all the property that the airport and Air Force base aren't currently occupying, including a decent portion of land that used to be USAF. I believe they're…

I actually think this pales in comparison to their upcoming work at their North Charleston, SC factory. The amount of work planned is absolutely immense!