Somehow, I'd always assumed the prototype ended up in China,

The link is tenuous at best but there's a storyline about using drones to deliver food from a repurposed aircraft carrier (the USS Flagg).

Precision.

As an aside, this has been the ongoing storyline in the Least I Could Do webcomic for the last couple of months.

Broken Arrow close enough?

How are those ankles?

I wonder where they get their tobacco from? Bit of a luxury item for hard cash sales you'd think.

Mind you, so would be a room full of cognac.

Thank you both, gentlemen (?). I figured there must have been some practical on-the-ground kind of use but I just could not pick it.

This may well be filed under "Missing the Point" but what's the significance of the bottles taped to the antenna?

What's NSFW about that?

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.