Yeah, wait until the new Fusion is revealed.

Damn...is there nothing that you can't find on the Internet?

That was a spectacular toy. I also remember finding smaller ones in die-cast that I never got around to buying.

That's actually an interesting perspective. I hadn't thought of that context.

There wouldn't be because the local populace wouldn't require hard-hitting weapons to kill them. You probably don't remember the half-decade of systematic massacres of Afghani civilians at the hands of the Taliban. No need to build IEDs when you can kill all the people you want with AK47s.

Everything that FB has done lately has screwed up my ability to self-manage my profile. Auto lists, subscriptions, changing the way the news feed works...come on, I had it all sorted out and now I have to contend with automation I can't turn off.

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It's not to hide it from eyesight, it's because even when the gold is so thin that you can see through it, it still blocks radar/EM from penetrating the canopy. I know that at least the F-16 also has a canopy like this, and probably other fighters do as well.

All day long, if they'd let me.

Most defense-related articles posted to Gizmodo have at least one egregious factual error or flaw in reasoning, so don't let it get to you too much. The best thing that informed commenters can do is what you just did...post corrections or clarifying information and hope that the rest of the readers get to see it.

Whoa. The 1815 eruption was way bigger than Krakatoa...

Korben Dallas: Yeah. Just one. Why me? I retired six months ago. You remember?

Here's a question. Would The Fifth Element have ever been conceived/made if not for Star Wars? And if the answer is "yes," would The Fifth Element have captured the imagination like SW? Because to me, it's the best single example of space opera ever, after the SW original trilogy.

My 6yo kept talking about pigeon milk a couple of months ago and my wife & I kept trying to convince him there was no such thing. He insisted that yes, there was, and he'd learned about it on Wild Kratts. I was thinking "How on earth could a PBS nature show have blown it like that?" until I looked it up. I think we're…

Heh...I bet there are a lot more people safely carrying firearms in Anchorage than whereever you live.

I remember that from the ROTJ novelization.

Yeah, the last Maglite I bought (2-D or 3-D, can't remember) came with an LED and out of curiosity, I focused the spot & flashed myself in the eyes. Made me go weak-kneed...actual physical debilitation.

No, I agree, the Herk is a singular success and they tried and failed once before to replace it with a STOL jet platform that didn't have all of the stealth issues. I don't think this would even be considered a real "replacement" for it, at that...cost and operating issues will always get in the way of widespread…

The final product will probably look much different from the front. I think right now they're more concerned in just determining if they can get the layout to work.

The renderings of the (currently) final version are scaled correctly to what it'd need to be dimensionally to do the Herk's job, and it looks incredible.