One difference is that a nation which developed the weapon has the innate ability to maintain and restock such weapons. The inherited stockpile would have a shelf-life that the custodian nations may not have the ability to replace.

Nuclear winter is a flawed concept and has largely been shown to be barely possible, even under the politically motivated worst case scenarios of the original authors... these same people thought the Iraqi oil well fires from GW 1 would cause a nuclear “winter” effect, it turned out they didn’t do shit outside of the…

-“After all, America’s military might can easily topple any third world government, the military part of the operation is not the challenging one; it is the political one that follows that is most perilous.”-

I think you have to come in fast and land quickly in case the ship moves due to the ocean. Better to get down fast than have the deck slam into the aircraft from below.

Well, you’d make some effort to ensure that the beach was “safe” for the landing to occur. Drone the crap out of the missile systems. Parachute spec ops to secure the beach?

Stories like that with absolutely no context are worthless. Like how a Rafale ‘shot down’ an F-22 in another exercise.

As a European I don’t like it either. Not because I think they’d be bad candidates, but because I think it’ll get into the same problems as the EU has gotten itself.

Oh yes sure...“defending it’s airspace” - from a lone Su-24 operating over Syria. Only a moron would see anything good out of this situation. I suspect escalation is on the way now, we’ll see how ‘brave’ Turkey is when faced with the backlash.

Teddy Bears? Ewoks are Human Eating fur beasts... you know they were gonna cook up some Roast Luke with a side of Han before the Golden God C-3PO was about the unleash his “wrath”

Doctor’s also report that he was able to remember to “Pass it to Kobe.”

War? That’s more or less how the US conducted the “peace” for most of the 1960s. Though it was controversial even at the time, my (mis)understanding is that it ended less because of philosophical epiphany than because of the rather sobering cleanup cost after one of several weapons-related accidents, the one in…

The numbers are pretty classified in the case of the Trident series other than “larger than Poseidon,” but the MIRV “footprint” is often surmised to be an ellipse with a major axis (downrange) of a few hundred miles and a minor axis (crossrange) of perhaps a fifth that. The energy of the third stage + weapons bus…

Putin is helping a dictator that at least keeps the place together - kind of like what Saddam did in Iraq and what Qadaffi did in Libya. Obama is helping the people that took over after Saddam and after Qadaffi. We can see how well that went - I mean Libya is a shinning example of what happens when you let “moderate…

Nah, they’ll just behead 10,000 people, throw gay men off of 10-story buildings, teach pre-teen kids to kill, and rape and disembowel women. And capture most of it on Youtube and/or Instagram, and brag about it.

Yeah, clean it up then go from there. Its a shitty dictatorship but at least it wasn’t displacing millions of people.

“Does anyone HONESTLY believe that ANY of the forces fighting against Assad can really put together a government we would support?”

Some of this has to do with doctrine of how we’ll fight. Russia, China, and other nations have supersonic antiship missiles because they HAVE to have them. They know any actual full up war with the US will involve US dominated seaways. Nobody, but NOBODY is going to be able to challenge the US Navy on the high seas.…

My sister-in-law wore her wedding dress to my wedding. [drops mic]

F-35 has double the range ( 600 mile combat radius with 2x2000 bombs and 4 missiles which is more than f-22, f-16, f-18, typhoon, Rafale,etc) and can carry 18,000lbs and will carry many more advanced weapons and target and deliver in all weather with little to fear from its enemies. A-10 carrying that much ordnance,…

You are kidding, right? Tagalog is the language of the Philippines. While it has some roots in Spanish, it is considered Austronesean.