The marines *wanted* a harrier replacement. While VTOL is a handy thing to have, they should have been told tough cookies. The developmental costs to make 3 versions that covered all the things each branch wanted was a bonehead move. Worse is letting the smallest branch dictate the design in such a strong way was…

Why make a custom carbon fiber tub that in production would run 45k a pop and then outfit it with cheap parts? Its a prototype, lacks a vin, and ford doesn’t want anyone driving it on the road.

US built the highway system with a secondary use being makeshift runways. If you want some interesting reading there is a great book called Divided Highways that explains the history of america’s roads in depth.

Cannot have a discussion with someone who only hears what they want to. Enjoy your echo chamber, it seems to be doing you so well.

What exactly are you advocating? That we continued conventional bombing campaigns? All that would have done was risk more bomber crews ie more american loses. The cities would have still have been bombed to oblivion. It was a war conducted with dummy bombs. It was barbaric. It was awful. It was necessary.

Oh, and…

Eisenhower, Eisenhower, what does he have to do with the war in the east? You keep quoting him like he had a real bearing on things, but last I checked he was Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force for EUROPE. Eisenhower was busy with the occupation of Germany and was not involved in the war with japan.

Rally != Endurance

Big difference between running stages and running around a track for hours on end.

“And considering the U.S. is the only country to have used them, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dead Japanese civilians, some would say that the U.S. is the one people should be fearing...”

No bias evident there at all. Not like you come across as having an agenda. Nope, nothing wrong here.

Which country do you prefer? I have lived in 6 states and 3 countries. The US isn’t perfect by any means. That being said keyboard warriors such as yourself with an agenda love to view history through a very narrow lens. It doesn’t matter which country you are educated in if you shun any source that doesn’t agree with…

“Japan was suing for peace.”

Not really. Some within the government wanted peace. The Emperor was not fully in control of the situation and the Military wanted to fight with glory and honor until it was unable to fight, ie death. Japan’s military was happy to arm everyone as well as they could and die for the Emperor’s…

You might want to use these fancy things called facts. The Anglo-American loan was so Britain could afford to fund its overseas commitments. Rather than whittle down and scrape by the Brits cried for help. Kind of bit them in the rear though. Britain was bankrupt and both America and Canada loaned them billions as a…

Gotta love you knuckleheads. US used nukes and killed innocent civilians during ww2! How Evil!

France, sure. Russia, right with you. Canada? Eh? They sent 620,000 in as an expeditionary force. Lotta folks, but compared to the rest? Peanuts.

Except in real life a shot to the arm can incapacitate a person. Explosive ammunition (Eastern front by the russians and germans) or a large enough caliber weapon will take your arm off. Short of that nicking an artery will take a person out.

War != fun.

By the time they mark the price down I can build a better pc for less still. I have done it before. That being said pc gaming vs console gaming has all kinds of pros and cons graphics aside.

All depends on where in the console life cycle you are. If you build it when the consoles are where they are now? Yes, totally doable using black friday sales. When the next gen first comes out? Not a chance.

That depends. 80 vls cells pack a lot of punch, but are they able to punch through battleship armor? As neat as the iowa’s are their time has passed. It requires too many men to man them. The architecture is archaic.

Which is why after the incident they shutdown all the reactors at the site. OH WAIT, NO THEY DIDN’T. They didn’t turn off the last reactor till 2000. Seems like we learned a lot.

Eh, why? Forests burn down periodically. Its part of their natural cycle. Humans don’t like this because we build in these areas and don’t want our stuff to go up in flames with it, so we do our best to prevent or stop it. This only increases the chance of the next fire and when it does happen its worse than it would…

Uhhhhh so much wrong here.