It’s a great defense, be inconveniently distant and useless for any real reason.

Good point, it may have made more sense now to have gotten something a little stronger in writing. They were down to A-4s and nothing to target from NZ with those.

I wasn’t advocating isolation, merely commenting on the bizarre relationship between Middle Earth and the outside world. It works for them, I don’t think it’s a good decision but they are the exception that proves the rule.

This... they can fix them and learn the failure modes as the same time, this tech will be evolving so repairs are not as likely as Block or variant upgrades.

So make no progress at all... until some unknown time?

Yep, isolation also works... New Zealand gave up their Air Force fighters awhile back. I guess the thinking is Middle Earth will be fine with Australia/USN/Gandalf to protect them.

The USN test squadron VX-23 has flown 100 percent biofuel Growler, hopefully the new administration won’t cause the sun to set on this test series...

Proud of your willful ignorance of the article? Why comment then?

We’re through the Looking Glass... Mattis and McMaster are the grown ups in this administration. Military control of strategy has surprisingly become a safety feature.

Even more amazing is its 194mph speed, at those altitudes it must have a cold fusion powered eternal reaction jet...

Comprehensive immigration reform?

The navy guys are really pushing for the F-35C as the “Reaper” for its carrier name.

You walked into that one...

That’s thing is awesome...

Kinja’s the reason we’re here if we’re being honest. It’s the best comment system on the net, and having a cross blog comment system makes it even better.

German Dance Music kills....

The inherent problem of ABM is that it will always be cheaper to launch more missiles than the ABM system can handle. The defensive posture requires tens of missiles and vast materiel resources for each potential target/site. Against a NK/Iran threat it can work. Against any real threat and the cost would be too high.

HAWK is still deployed by an absurdily large number of nations.

That’s just corrosion protection...