Lol. Enjoy eating double digit SAMs for breakfast.

Not according to the Dutch pilots:

The F-35B can carry SDB-II just fewer until a hardware mod is done and the SDB-II doesn’t enter service until 2017 anyway. The F-35 won’t fly with it until 2022 but has other weapons it can employ.

LOL, the shuttle served for 30 years and 133 successful missons.

Material and shit is required as well to win unless you only wish to carry out guerrilla warfare after you’ve been conquered. This is why we teach DOTMLPF and we have the saying that amateurs study tactics while professionals study logistics. Napoleon and Hitler lost because of logistics as much as weather and battle.

And Russia without the British and US help might have lost in 1942. In December 1941 30-40% of the heavy tanks defending Moscow were British Matilda and Valentines. By July 1942 16% of the Soviet tank force were from lend lease.

What? No. The New Horizons mission cost $700M. You’re only off by three orders of magnitude.

DoD loves acronyms but DOTMLPF exists for a reason even if hilariously ungainly.

Lol, Ramon is stating that Russia is so badass that they’ll invade Poland and bomb Germany.

Right, and the Shuttle program was the model of government efficiency with no cost overruns, development delays or performance compromises. I work space too (sorta). Some things are just hard and cost more time and money than originally expected. Anyone who works the “space side of aerospace” should be well aware of…

Defend the target with a Buk and it suddenly becomes clear why the F-35 is a superior CAS platform to anything else.

Lol...the day Russia drops bombs on Berlin is the day they all realize that if the US was on the side of Germany they’d have lost WWII in a big way. The Germans may have an amazingly small military today but if they bomb Berlin they will discover that Germany is an economic powerhouse not built on the price of oil.

You would need “a lot”given we would have a significantly less capable carrier and amphibious force able to project power from the sea. We would as many F-22s as planned for F-35 (for strike missions) plus hundreds if not thousands more in addition to a lot more tankers to offset the ability to park a floating…

Yes, a few dozen F-22s and F-35s would smoke the Russians.

Given the methodology they should have.

Having been in a (very) few bar fights with Koreans in my younger days even the wimpy looking ones can be an unexpected handful.

Peace can work because the “war pigs” took a “hard” stance that folks were wringing their hands over last week about how OMG the “war pigs” shouldn’t ratchet tensions up just because a couple SK soldiers lost their legs...

You are saying that because you agree that the F-4 and A-7 should not be included in the data when it clearly should.

That’s just dumb. You are asserting that joint programs cannot save money because when done incorrectly (by the Air Force) they cost more to operate because they neglect to account for anyone else’s actual operational requirements.

Given that NK called for talks in a conciliatory manner and sent a high ranking official the hard(er) line approach taken by SK worked and all your hand wringing about how SK “escalating tensions” with loudspeakers was stupid was simply full of shit.