I went to test drive one at a large Hendrick dealership, and while they had two, both were autos. The closest manual-equipped SS was over 400 miles away. I had a sad.

It’s actually pretty freaking hard. Remember the size of ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’? They were MASSIVE. That’s about the level of sophistication of NK’s nuclear program, at this point. Given the amount of money that NK has to devote to their nuclear program, it’ll take quite a bit of time before they’re able to create…

My buddy was actually supposed to be in Japan, doing installs for the Japanese BMD program, but his trip was pushed back because of this. All the ships were at sea, just in case. I guarantee that if that missile had started to head towards Japan, you’d have seen the first practical application of AEGIS BMD.

You’re completely wrong about there being no evidence. Any launch of a system like this will be tracked in various spectrums, including infrared, and they’d see a massive heat bloom.

They’d have seen the heat bloom from the laser via infrared. If they have that sort of thing...

I’m just imagining the Emerald Aisle at National Car Rental.

The difference is that there were a very limited number of GT350s, and an even smaller number of GT350Rs made for the first model year. IIRC, it was 100 GT350s, and 37 GT350Rs. Thus, the first year markup is going to be insane. Course, the second year will be here very soon, and they’ll make at least ten times what…

The Voodoo is based on the exact same block that the Coyote uses, it just had a different bore and/or stroke to make up for that extra 0.2 CID. The engine his highly reworked, but people put down stupid power with the Coyote all day long.

So, I’m a big Mustang guy, and have read various sources that quote the replacement cost of one of those wheels at $4,000. For me, those wheels would come off, and only be used for certain instances. I’m sure one of the wheel manufacturers will have a set of forged aluminum knockoffs very soon!

That’s not completely true. You don’t need onboard sensors for over-the-horizon missile shots, you just need sensor fusion and the ability to view radar pictures from other vessels. Once the F-35 is operational, various vessels, including LCS, should be able to use its radar and data link capabilities to fuse data…

As someone who was working for Lockheed Martin, at the same facility where LCS was developed, it really makes me sad that what you see is what you think the LCS was originally supposed to be. Requirements changes (from the Navy, mind you) drove significant design changes late in development (like almost every other…

I call bullshit on your supposition that we wouldn’t export the F-22 because of Ada. There are plenty of anti-tamper safeguards that can be applied to protect the code, more so now, given the leaps that computing technology has made since the F-22 was put into production. Hardware based encryption would be an easy…

This makes me so happy I didn’t take that Cybersecurity/IA job on ALIS like six years ago. I’d probably have had at least two nervous breakdowns, already.

I’ve lived in three states, and all have been pretty easy to work on cars, though the rules for emissions were widely different.

HOAs typically bitch about anything going on within view of the public, so as long as the chickens stayed in the backyard, and the coop was out of sight from the street, they were probably fine.

Engineering?

I suppose he could have taken SEPTA. That might actually be the only thing that’s LESS reliable than an Aston Martin, though...

Then, we would eat pizza.

The USN and NATO probably do track all subs that come into their operational areas, but I very much doubt they have an attack sub shadowing and tracking the movements of these boats.

American crews don’t need to worry themselves too much, Israel is our biggest ally in the region.