300,000 of them solved their problem by walking south and surrendering. These were military units well armed and retreating intact, and therefore were legitimate military targets.

Most of the Iraqi army looked just like this, it was just spread out more.

Then again, if the equipment fails the test, you'll figure that out flying it into the facility the first time.

And it helps to be near the aircraft, so you don't have a 6000 mile round trip every time you want to use it.

Sexy like a farm mule!

The ruskies do have a gift for building gorgeous fighters, a skill which is offset and negated by their ugly assed helicopters.

Laughing at the last photo. All that technology of testing aircraft to operate in the cold, but it is still 6 poor bastard airmen digging out an armed Eagle with 4 different kinds of shovels and brooms.

Actually in the weeks before the war it had rained incredibly hard and the locals were all freaked out at how much rain had come. Like another commentary wrote, the sky to the north was black from all the air strikes and that only got worse. Once they lit the wells on fire it looked like you were headed into hell the…

We flew back on a C5 and everyone was loaded up with trophies of one sort or another.

What starts by the spa pool ends in a spider hole with a US boot on his head 👍

Actually this photo had me laughing for another reason. The chocolate chip desert cammies were in very short supply, especially as the deployment built up. Many units were stuck in woodland pattern camo right through the war, and an informal humorous situation developed between the guys in chocolate chips and the…

The Iraqis were over confident from day 1. This was nothing more than an armored raid that was crushed.

Actually having only OP’s within enemy artillery range is completely normal. When we arrived in Saudi Arabia in force, the Iraqis were already on the Saudi border. This isn’t World War 1 when everyone masses up 300 yards apart. US forces were massed further back and spread out along the border outside of Iraqi…

You are Not going to see more F22s, no matter who gets elected. I will be the very first to agree that we should have built more, BUT, the real issue here is the need for the services and the military-industrial establishment to get their act together on design and production cost control. Every major weapons system…

That's what Saddam said too.

Enjoy the F22 and the F35, because everyone will be howling even more when they are replaced with autonomous fighting aircraft.

The quickest way to disable a major Russian combatant is to sink the tug that is towing it.

Draw no strategic naval logic from the Russians.

That is true.

You're not American. It's not supposed to make sense to you.