I'll touch on that- 'US interests overseas' are our allies and business partners, and includes most of the world. We have troops and equipment deployed to other nations not just for collective defense, but also for collective operations- we work with them, side by side, everyday. It's like saying to your friend, who…

The Army version for aviators is pretty intense, or so I've heard; it also focuses more on subjecting trainees to abuse (like the Army proper treats all of it's people, join the Marines if you're smart!) rather than actual training, which is what the Air Force SERE school concentrates on.

Cockiness is usually a sign of over-confidence and insecurity, both of which are traits of individuals that you don't want to share a POW cell with :).

I'd be surprised by any Air Force types that 'lost their minds' in Survival School. It's about as nice as you can get and actually accomplish the training objectives.

If you want cheap used glass, any system will work outside of Leica and larger formats (also including Leica).

It isn't updated, it's just different. The AF is faster in some cases, slower in others. The translucent mirror, unlike the moving mirror in DSLRs, always blocks some of the light from the sensor, which is the last thing one needs in an APS-C camera.

Sony stopped making DSLRs years ago.

The a77 is a high-end semi-pro; it out-classes Canon's 70D and Nikon's D7100, and is closest to the ancient and soon to be replaced Canon 7D and Nikon's discontinued without replacement D300S.

It's the non-existent, or significantly over-priced for the performance lens options from Sony that kill the system. Pentax has the same issue.

Best information I've seen so far, and the two questions I asked first, hoping Giz had actually done their homework. A 1" sensor is actually useful (think Sony RX100/RX10).

We had all of those things before we had taxes; taxes make them convenient to pay for, yes, but understand that government is always less efficient than industry. Basic formula is that money is burned (wealth is lost/wasted, technically) when government does something that industry could do better.

Taxes are the same as burning money, sorry. Lowering taxes grows industry and increases wealth. If you want to fix bridges, you do it with targeted tolls that expire when the project is paid for.

You let the rich keep more of their money because they've proven that they can better manage it because they're rich. In general, because they don't need that money either, it goes right back into the market so that poor people can leverage it to make money for themselves, too. No rich people, no loans from banks,…

For weeks bro, for weeks.

I wish you would go use one, maybe you'd realize that you have no idea what you're talking about :)

If you'd read the spec sheets fanboy, you would know that neither the A7 nor A7R, nor any of the NEX cameras on which they're based and whose mount they share, are 'SLTs'. They have no mirror.

I love trolling trolls with facts. It breaks their reality.

Compare the AF of the A7R to the A7, let alone something like the 1D X or D4S. Well, there's no comparison, really. That A7R is best left to things that don't move much, or don't move at all.

What I see missing from this article is how combinations of different weapons systems and platforms between the US and Russia (and China and India and...) stack up.

Talk about the 'wrong' way to use a T/S lens :)