That’s a C-17, BTW. The winglets are the most obvious difference, aside from the proportions just being different (C-17s have more of a short and fat appearance). The engine diameter is also a bit larger (overall, but especially proportionally) on the C-17.

Brake-checking is usually illegal. Specifically, in most states, it can be classified as assault as it is intended to cause injury or fear of injury.

I’m sure they ferry them around in cargo aircraft just like the US does.

Most bases funnel the traffic past the main gate(s) towards bollards that pop up very quickly if the gate guard hits a button. If you run through the gate, they hit the button and you’ve got nowhere to go.

From the LA Times article linked above, “the Jeep drove through the air station’s front gate before security had…

There’s actually quite a bit of Iraq where woodland/olive drab camo blends in pretty well. Where it doesn’t, the sand just covers it up, anyway.

There’s really not much to say until we get ACTUAL weight numbers and ACTUAL pricing. Until then, all you can say about it is.. it looks awesome.

It was actually widely expected. First, there were patent drawings found, then Mazda folks had referred to the new design specifically as looking like a fastback, and then there were lots of people who participated in focus groups and were shown something that they described as exactly like this. That was all before…

Nope, it will go down independently.

Well, except for when Mazda actually made a Miata coupe and charged more for them. They were converted by hand, though, and in fairly small quantity, so there’s that.

But they should make it more expensive... and more powerful, and maybe not even called a Miata at that point.

Why would this person be so strangely anti-Miata?

They’ve already arrested some of them: http://abc13.com/news/incredibl…

There’s a pretty awesome video compilation of this. Especially fun for folks in the Chicago area, since you get to see all these reporters that we’re so used to but in a much younger state.

Geosynchronous orbits are at crazy-high altitudes that are pretty much useless for imaging purposes.

Realistically, you could do something like a laser projector that illuminates all areas of the face evenly except for the eyes (will realtime face tracking). Then you’d just need to eliminate the reflection of the face in the helmet. I’m sure this would be very basic tech a couple of centuries from now. So illuminated…

The biggest difference is that electronic systems are 1000x more tunable, and offer a lot of new possibilities, including stuff that the general public prefers that tends to be very different than what the average jalop wants. Many systems deliberately filter out a lot of feedback, do stuff like try to account for…

In conventional guns, the projectile continues to accelerate all the way down the barrel. It does decrease, of course (whereas a rail gun could be fairly constant), but even by the time the bullet leaves the barrel, the pressures are still very, very high (depending on barrel length and load).

The ability of the barrel (and rest of the gun) to withstand pressure is much more of a limiting factor than gun powder. This is especially obvious today, where most cartridges (which were designed a LONG time ago) now use a fraction of the charge that they used to. Reloaders have to be very careful and often…

Looks like a Payload Transporter:

Mission
The Payload Transporter III (PT III) provides the ability to load, unload, transport, emplace, or remove and replace Minuteman weapon system aerospace vehicle equipment (AVE) and supporting equipment in a controlled environment on air-cushioned pallets between the Minuteman…

Nah, your skin’s resistance is too high and the welding voltage too low for this to happen (with most welding technologies).

Eh, if you use the other lane as reference, it’s more like 1-1.5 car lengths. Annoying, yes, but as an owner of the same model dashcam, which has a super crazy wide-angle lens, I can attest that everything does look much farther away in the video than it really is.