Drone cops, coming soon to a city near you.

I can think of one small boat soon to be ex-lieutenant who could have used a sextant class or two....

First drone pic of the little green men wins! 👽

Well, that's true, but slap an Eagle on a catapult and watch what happens 🙈

Maybe, but then the argument was the strength of warheads. Now the discussion is entirely new technologies that have the potential to rapidly eclipse existing technologies at breath taking speeds. Just like the tank, the machine gun and the biplane rendered then current military technology instantly obsolete, so to…

Except the Hornet / Super Hornet can take off and recover in well under 1000 feet in the middle of the ocean, therefore making it incredibly versatile and totally cool.

There is a reason you are not writing that comment in Russian.

The age of lasers and autonomous aircraft are almost upon us, the need for aggressor squadrons for air to air training is rapidly passing.

Except none of the 300,000 who surrendered were shot, just as we had communicated to them through hundreds off leaflet drops.

Look, 300,000 Iraqis surrender and we round them up and stick them in POW camps, just like North Koreans, Japanese, Italians,Germans and everyone else from pick what ever war you want. They all were legally imprisoned with no criminal charges, just because they were enemy combatants, and that has been going on forever.

Be careful with the rule of law theory, which was all the rage a few years back but is now fall info it of favor in the rise of what everyone calls non-state sponsored terrorism, but in fact is asymmetrical warfare from other than government groups. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Somali pirates, Boko Harem, narco gangs running drug…

Oil.

The F16 is ancient technology now, so for that matter is the F15. Even our top of the line F22 is twenty year old technology now.

The F117 was experimental and cutting edge stealth technology, but it was functionally never more than a light bomber. At the risk of lighting of an F35 fire..... The F35 will be hands down more capable that the F117.

So why not leave them in Gitmo? What's the benefit of moving them to Leavenworth?

In a word? Cost.

Which makes the A-10 the strip club pole dancer ...

This was the same army warned for 6 months to leave or face destruction. They chose not to leave, then they chose not to surrender.

Actually a great many of them fled. If you look at the photos you will see plenty of vehicles unscathed but trapped by the vehicles in front and behind ( and certainly plenty through the column on fire). With the exception of the tracked and high performance all wheel drive vehicles, many could not operate off the…

Wait a minute.... More than a quarter of a million surrendered. These were armed military units moving intact.