Legacy AEGIS baselines still utilize Q70 consoles, which, while complicated and expensive, are fairly compact and streamlined. As CGs and DDGs cycle through refit, they'll be equipped with updated consoles. The CDS displays found on Baseline 9, aka AEGIS Modernization, which is what is both backfitting and…

Man, after reading that, I want to take back my CP vote.

I do like several of the newer Lincoln models, and I'd LOVE to get me a LS LSE. Maybe the wife will let me find a nice one to go with that S550 Mustang I'm buying later this year...

Obvious troll is obvious.

Not likely. Having been around the Taurus forums for some time, the swaps aren't that simple, even when you're talking like platforms and drivetrain. For instance, the PCM controls the functions of the tach and speedo, as well as many other pieces, so it would be hell rewiring and shunting things to make everything…

Because it's probably the best looking Lincoln of the past thirty years, comes with a DOHC V8, is RWD, and they're actually kinda fun to drive. If this were a black LSC, and didn't have those codes, I'd be all over this. I've been missing having a car payment.

What a twat.

Awesome video!

Wait. What?!?

That T-bird.

I think the only way that the Perry-class could continue to be, in any way, effective, would be to strip them of a lot of unnecessary weight, completely replace their combat systems, add a VLS, and use off-board sensors to provide targeting data. Their radar systems simply aren't up to the task of AAW, period, and…

Yeah. We'll remember that the next time some crazy dictator starts invading countries and lobbing bombs towards London.

Those are awful. On any car. Every time I see a base Mustang V6 with the optional door mouldings, I cringe.

I think the most interesting thing about these, is that they're not likely to receive any resistance from those massive Japanese Coast Guard boats that you mention, but more likely, the Kongo and Atago classes of DDGs, which carry AEGIS and a very potent load-out of Harpoon missiles in their 90/96 VLS cells, not to…

The NSC, and the Hamilton-class that preceded it, do have one CIWS system.

While I don't disagree with your closing quip, perhaps it's to reduce off-track hoonage and tomfuckery.

Better, but TwinForce was the best name, all along.

Also, the homage to 'Vanishing Point' from 'Death Proof'.

Those birds fly over my office every day, low, and they're LOUD! I'm about a half mile from the airport/Air Force Base.

Do not want.