I’m always wondering why deployed Navy SEALs look like trash metal rock musicians. Look, I’m former Russian Navy officer and while on training in Naval College preparing to firefighting on the submarine simulator we were told that no face hair is allowed at all as the gas mask then is mostly useless - the poisoning…

99% by occassion and 1 % tactically.

First - when the carrier have been initially ready to host the airgroup, there was only Su-33 (a T-10 model of Su-27K) ready to be embarked. No MiG-29 carrier-based derivative was available to the date. But the sizes and dimensions of the carrier herself were defined by the MiG’s…

Three notes:

1. Is everyone noting the red devices by the roots of the bow launching tracks (105 meters from JBDs to the end of a ramp) that is holding the main gear’s wheels? And if plane is on afterburner and ready for takeoff, the main gears’ brakes are completely loose. Then, on signal of a Shooter, those stoppers…

Yes but I never heard of Turkish AMRAAM or Sparrow fired from their F-16s. And it that was ‘winders, then the Ottoman Falcon itself was, probably, in Syrian skies, trading maneuvers with our Su-24. It seems to be AIM-9 as there was clearly engine’s fire while the Su had been dropped in the dead leaf discending. Silly…

AFAIK, very different leadership style is there in RM that distinguished them from parental Naval service, RN. As it’s been said, the Royal Marine knows for sure that he won’t be asked to do something that RM officer cannot do. If the RM officer can himself (another good warrior tradition - males only) do all that his…