I can kinda see this thing being equipped with nightvision cameras and a load of mortar rounds and being let loose.

The “Oh fuck!” moment over, a lot of people would start laughing - it helps deal with the adrenaline. I know my stress response is to tell bad jokes. This is not always appreciated by those around me.

oh, good that they've got the new(ish) ones otherwise that would be ten percent of their F-16 fleet right there.

I figured that was a de-icing thing.

land a chopper on it and write "The French were here"

Hey! My town made Foxtrot Alpha!

Noice!

i can see the response to this as setting up a barrier of unarmed commercial vessels and having the sub go underneath. The vessels then surround the USS Darpaship and it pings off them until it hits one, creating an incident.

Whenever I see a pic of a ship like this:

meh, cool plane which should have been kept in the inventory (well suited for COIN and I did think it was being used in counter narcotic operations in South America) but for Iraq and Afghanistan, probably better providing a couple of hundred upgraded AN-2s.

I swear that I've seen a JSDF recruitment ad with the Star Blazers them but my google-fu is failing me.

Obligatory.

So, how quickly IS China building these? Are they getting it down to an art-form and able to knock up an island from a reef in, say, a month?

Daaammmnnnnn... That's an impressive image.

the big booms amongst the swarming boats at the 16 second mark of the second video sure do interesting. I wonder if everyone made it back to land.

The Ukrainian Spider Response Group DO NOT fuck around!

So...

is it? Poo. Google image search has let me down.

Anyone else see a potential family resemblence here?

Perhaps a more interesting question would "Would the cars drive on the right in New York and on the left in Los Angeles"?