And of course the US would see it that way and shall continue to see it that way until a foreign warship of a less than friendly power starts going up and down the US coast.

I read 1, 2 and 3 over the course of a month so I can't really separate them in my mind. There wasn't a lot of action that I can recall but there were some nifty little sections, particularly in regards to the technologies involved, spooky gunships out of DC-3s, Australian soldiers with AK-47s and the aforementioned…

Something vaguely similar with an obsolete aircraft carrier in World War 2.3 by John Birmingham. The Japanese stack out the flight deck with vertical launch Ohka kamikaze missiles. Just goes to show that it wouldn't take too much if you had the right suicidal resources.

Could they pave the flight deck with concrete pavers?

Seventy years later...

I choose to read the ship's name as the Ferris Beuller.

I was expecting them to be standing closer and vodka/implausible heights be involved..

Wang! Stop looking out the window and pay attention!

why the hell doesn't Sukhoi up and shift it's factories to China. They may as well. It looks like more Sukhois are being built there than anywhere else.

Yeah, there's no comeback for that when you're six. The other kid simply owned him.

Foxtrot Alpha has one of the best aviation photographers in the business attending, so stay tuned for some fantastic images and updates.

When you've got children choosing toys based of a logistical support and maintenance package, something is really, really wrong.

I read the writing aft of the cockpit as "Pick Me!" and I thought "That's a brave strategy for weapons sales".

Can someone please explain to me just what is so hard about building steam catapaults? They're fifties technology but the Russians, the Chinese and the Indians don't have them. Why? Don't the indians have a catapault on their other carriers (or at least one of them)?

This was a well-written, thought-provoking article about a topic which I had never considered.

i regularly work elections here in Australia and I am dismayed/disgusted at how US elections are run. It really has reached the point where you can no longer say that the US is a democracy as the number of imprediments to vote continue to grow and deliberately exclude groups from having a say. Where I live, the…

That is a flat-out awesome thing to do. They will cop something for it but it's soooo worth it.