Because we need more oil field fires dumping noxious black smoke into the world’s atmosphere for weeks... Oil fields ought to be off limits.

I don’t see what is so “illegal” about it. If a country keeps launching attacks on you from an area, you get fed up and take it in a war they started with you, I don’t see that they have any “right” to have it back.

I have to say... the UN has not shown strong leadership in a very long time. I seriously doubt they ever will. The security council veto keeps them from ever really doing anything at all where any of the big 5 are involved.

At least they can be happy we didn’t send the hellfire to them in the usual way we give hellfires to other nations...

Welcome to 2016. A lot has changed. You might want to check out Wikipedia to catch up. At least 80% of it is true.

To be fair, his post was only about as ridiculous as the one to which he was replying... There are people out there that believe if you just put down all weapons, hold hands, and sing an acceptable secular version of kumbuya, everyone will just leave you alone.

They could go to a subscription model. Everybody else is...

True, though if it is just an engine failure and not catastrophic bug/rotor assembly failure you can auto-rotate.

Although in this case you can see the blade changing pitch as it moves around, so it actually does appear to be beating the air into submission.

This was my first though too.... so cool and mesmerizing, yet I think I’m going to be sick...

So when you can’t find a comment to complain about you create your own pretend ones now?

Actually, Sanctions are the quintessential diplomatic way of applying pressure. You seem to be trying to redefine diplomatic pressure because you don’t like sanctions.

What I am thinking of was when Maverick tells Goose “I’m going to hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by” and then pushes the throttles forward instead of pulling them back. Bugs me every time I watch it now.

There’s a lever in the cockpit for the pilot to change his command-eject from Pilot to RIO. Setting it to Pilot means he ejects both, but the RIO only ejects himself. If it is set to RIO the RIO can eject both.

Of course, it could go the other way too. The RIO panicking and prematurely ejecting. Particularly when they aren’t even a real RIO....

Wikipedia has some good sources on the TALD and newer ITALD to start. There’s also a lot of good info on how they, and other tactics, were used in the air war here: http://csis.org/files/media/cs…

There was also some point in the movie where they were going either full throttle or to idle (I forget which), and they pushed/pulled the throttle in the wrong direction.

Yeah, it was funny that after the first night of the war Iraq was claiming to have shot down dozens of coalition planes. They had not yet figured out they were emptying their missile magazines at TALDs.

That happens when you spend years setting up one of the most advanced IADS in the world, and then it gets dismantled day 1, and you’re left having to figure out the best way to use the individual pieces you have left without the benefit of the IADS.

If they manage to see it. If you’ve ever seen the bay doors on some of the stealthy aircraft, they aren’t usually open more than a couple of seconds. The longer range a mechanically-scanned radar, the more slowly it needs to scan and the longer the PRI (Pulse Repetition Interval) it needs (lower PRF).