The "wow" factor is fun, isn't it? I'm pretty convinced I saw a Harrier make it rain during a hover demo one time.

Very well put, and thoughtfully considered. Thanks.

"Donkey show, son. You need to get your little brother out of here."

Yeah, I think about 30 seconds would do it. Couple of shots of Hornets, one of a Hawkeye, and maybe a COD trap. :)

I'd be skeptical, except I remember a story about a 1950s era F-102 Delta Dagger fighter jet (single engine, delta wing...the type that GW Bush flew) that was on a cross-country flight when something went wrong with the engine. The pilot decided he couldn't save the jet and ejected. When he ejected, the force of the…

Not anymore, they don't. You've just posted a picture of the pride of 1970s stealth engineering. F-117s don't even fly anymore.

The F-35B will never take off vertically in any kind of operational scenario. The only reason they even have the capability for STOVL (short takeoff, vertical landing) is so the Marines can use the jets off of their smaller-than-carrier assault ships. There are other navies that also wanted the capability, but IIRC,…

A-10 low and slow is great except for when you're on station 75 miles away from where the FAC starts screaming for air support, danger close, NOW. There's no getting around the fact that an F-16 or other fast jet can get to the scrap twice as fast as the Hog can, and even if the fast jet can't chew up the ground as…

This is more than tweaking, though. This is a bunch of fundamental errors in design.

One of the items I saw listed elsewhere was after a supersonic flight, the test jet landed with its stealth coating bubbling and peeling on body panels. The fleet has subsequently been limited to subsonic flight. That's a disaster for the program. A benefit of stealthy design is how slippery the airframe is without…

The F-22 line is still running, and despite its own issues, it's a hell of a lot more mature of a program and should be kept alive. The Pentagon's reason for killing it was because the F-35 was supposed to be a more cost-effective replacement. It's not. It's turned into an albatross around DOD's neck, even more so…

It's a huge app. I transferred it to SD also, and I think you're right, my phone started acting weird. I ended up uninstalling it altogether.

My kid's in Cub Scouts & I had proposed to the other parents that we use a FB group as a way to communicate and organize, instead of trying to manage multiple email streams. Everyone thought it was a great idea, except for that one family that "doesn't do Facebook." Because of them, we couldn't use the organizational…

Actually, it's the bitching about Facebook that's making me miserable. Sheesh.

My assumption is that Gingrich spent enough time in Congress that he probably attended a fair few briefings about EMP threats that were detailed enough to raise attention but which were (in his opinion, perhaps) significantly undervalued and underreported.

The performance of the F-22s in exercises has been even more impressive than that. The radar on the 22 is eyewatering and the way it works...I wish I could see it in visible light because it's probably like watching one of those million-light xmas displays cued to Mannheim Steamroller music. Datalinked F-22s feeding…

Don't worry, he'll tell you?

Or you could just not go in the first place.

But you have to admit, it looks like Battleship has been filmed beautifully.

It's astonishing how often a Giz article ends up taking the precisely opposite point of view from mine. This new update, at least on Android, is pretty slick.