When you actually need to is “Hey look, we’re at war!”

Yep, one way to beat double digit SAMs is to send in enough F-16s that you saturate the defenses.

“I want THAT op center!”

The expression of a man who’s own military parades involves fire extinguishers and tow trucks...FU Xi...you smug looking bastard.

The look of a man with a major military parade where none of the tanks caught fire and had to be hauled away standing next to a man who did.

To illustrate the point:

There will be no operational unmanned fighters in 10 years.

If you are in the top 10% ($113-159K) then your share is 11.22% of $100B divided by 14M or $801.

Funny that the P-8 was another one of those aircraft hated by the blogosphere as a mistake by the USN. Designed for too many missions at the expense of ASW, too fast to see things, too expensive, no MAD, shorter loiter time, should have been turbo-props, should have built P-3s with new engines, etc.

See ya hippy. /DeNiro voice

And we will continue to suggest that the problem isn’t the site but somewhere between your screen and your chair.

Because we don’t have an infinite supply of SATCOM and will have even less if the balloon goes up for real. You have to assume zero CONUS reach back, and limited SATCOM.

New Zealand spends anywhere from 1.1 to 1.3 percent of their GDP in defense. Which is a hair higher than countries like Canada or Japan and slightly lower than Germany.

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.