You should sit out on the tarmac someday in a helicopter cockpit. Every exhaust of every aircraft looks like that. Hell, you should see the exhaust of the ground vehicles.

Looks about the same as any other jet plume!

It would melt the grate then get stuck in the hole.

No, it’s what Radical Islamic Terrorists use to shoot down Infidel Aircraft.

More importantly, here’s what $150M of stealth technology looks like to a $60K MANPAD…

When they are scheduled to receive the upgrade in 2035.

No what you said was

The majority of private security contractors sit on their asses and do nothing most of the time. Its not 24/7 combat.

10 Minutes of training and anyone tall enough can hit a moving ship with that. Takes longer to teach you how to clean and maintain it.

Indeed.

solutions to this problem already exist.

Four or five defensive rifles kept out of sight and locked up, unloaded and subject to inspection while in a countries protected waters should not cause alarm.

Sounds like these countries need to have some kind of treaty regarding defensive small arms in light of the pirate threat to all involved.

I dont get it.

The A10 isn’t even being used for what it was designed for, and it’s original design was a stop gap with a short life expectancy in the technology of 40 years ago.

Believe it or not, most modern fighters are like that.

From 50 years ago? Sure...

That’s definitely how we should have treated his corpse. Allegedly, he was dumped in the ocean because they were afraid his grave site would become some sort of shrine. We should’ve built that shrine ourselves, in the middle of nowhere, and hellfire’d anybody that came near it. Rinse and repeat.

Foxtrot Alpha, dickface.

Burj, Burka and Beyond-Towels for your home and and your head.