I’m quite sure a baseball bat is capable of doing similar or worst damage when compared to a baton.

Yes, they could be. I watch the markets as well and currently it doesnt look like they will be able to afford to put together a force similar to ours. The islands they are building are a good compromise they can arm them with all kinds of ground to air systems and an air force, but they lack mobility. China also as…

It’s dickbutt is hideous though.

Every deployment has what’s called a Unit Type Code, the squadron itself doesn’t decide how many or what kind of forces it deploys, that comes down from the national command authority. In this case the unit type code called for a package equal to half to the total size of the squadron.

This. Our little set-aside city for liberals and such. #Houston would have had a different story.

Its a better choice if you really wanna go to jail, expandable batons are illegal in both CA and TX and they should be. You aren’t going to do too much damage with a metal bat, probably just leave some bruises, but you can kill someone with a baton and for sure you will leave some broken bones.

This was in Texas where many people carry guns as a religion. Pulling one of those out at close range gives the other guy a reasonable justification to shoot you.

China can project power, just regionally rather than globally. The problem for the US is that we want to basically be as strong as every regional power within THEIR region.

The bad news for the Chinese is that simply stealing other countries’ tech and spending your way out of the military dark ages eventually stops working.

You sir, may have a star.

We fly them, refueled in mid air by tanker aircraft.

They fly them. Normally with air to air refueling, though I think they have enough range to island hop as well.

Do you mean a wave of your gun, or some sort of generally accepted hand signal that unambiguously says “I have a gun”?

I’m happily surprised that neither combatant resorted to gunplay. Then I’m sad that such a small display of basic sense surprises me.

It’s a matte black wrap.

China wants to have international force projection in the next twenty years, when we do things like this I just dont see it happening the way they want. They have to steal everything they build as far as aircraft, and cant even refit an already built carrier to go nuclear within the span of a decade. The way we…

Don’t know where this is but it’s waaaaaaay cooler.

But curving it as a solution for speeders?

Love the shots of those D-21s on the back of the MD-21 and under the wings of that Buff.

That huey looks like she’s taking off at North Island!