I expected him to be going faster.

Nyet, nyet, nyet!

Yeah of course they either had a lock on him or had a lock on his emissions in passive those scalable beams are something else hey yury we couldn’t get a good lock go out and get a lock okay Fedor get in plane ha he wishes I’ll fill out a report saying I did it

Good points - Massed troops and minefields.

“Such a setup would be ideal for long-range ship-to-shore area suppression and attacks on large fixed targets.”

Those who think a fairly short, violent, regionally defined conventional conflict with a near peer state competitor is impossible due to nuclear escalation or perceived economic MAD are wrong.

9,000 gallons is about what a tanker truck holds... Why not have Mad Max just drive it in?

Very much so Matt. US has a netcentric battlespace with superior situational awareness. During exercises these ROEs can be stripped away, even the use of certain radar modes or data-links may be prohibited. As such, certain skill sets and/or technological advantages of one side’s crews and aircraft can be better…

As one who participated in many combat exercises with our Asian allies, I can say that the press realeases of ‘who won what’ or ’ kill ratios’ or ‘who was better’ will never be released. Asian nations do not want to be embarrassed and our Generals are kind sorts when the State Department is monitoring the exercises.

ROCKET BOOSTER.

The closest I can think of would be things like Fleet Week for the navy/Marines, and airshows. You’re right, I can’t think of any sort of serious ground force exhibition.

Yep, I kinda knew the numbers

I disagree. The President is not a man that likes to be adversarial in any situation but here he would have no choice. He can get away with letting groups like ISIS off but Iran is a legitimate state and attacking a US Navy ship is an act of war. The pressure from the country and congress would be too great. In…

The entire 5th fleet is headquartered in Bahrain. Not to mention several mutinational Combined Task Forces (CTF150, CTF152, etc.)

Not really a weapon, more like a means of ‘communication’ = GTFO of our waters.

The Bradley has more than proven itself. It had a whole lot of critics when it was first deployed — the same people making basically the same criticisms against the M1 Abrams, in fact. But since then, it’s become a highly valuable asset.

The same way Greece (my country) keeps our F-16s flying, despite the government being mostly penny-less: Keep flying those things sans-maintenance, or with bad maintenance, and pray they don’t fall from the sky, or when one does that it doesn’t fall on too many heads (so far Greece has lost two modern Block52M’s…

US Naval operations and regular DACT is a LOT harder on airframes then the Iranian usage. Even during the Iran Iraq war.

The Mig29 may be “younger” but it is probably the least capable. Its the original gimpy export version sold by the Soviets. No range (doesn’t even have aerial refueling capability), primitive avionics. Just a very limited combat aircraft meant for limited use centrally controlled intercepts. In airshows and WVR…