Arguably peace in Europe didn’t occur until after several continental wide wars over those 500 years. Since 1515, ignoring dozens of smaller wars, you have the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), the Nine Years’ War (1688-1697), the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), World War I (1914-1918) and…

In a modern Fulda gap scenario both the F-16 and A-10 are not survivable aircraft. For the A-10 it is vastly outmatched by the Pantsir (SA-22) given it’s one generation past the system that was designed to destroy the A-10 (Tunguska or SA-19).

Except we’ve never really needed the A-10s given the number of F-16s we have. So yes, I’d much rather have 20 more F-22s than 283 A-10s and fewer hours on F-16 airframes.

New F-16V won’t cost much less than new F-16 E/F Block 60/61s and those have a unit flyway cost of around $70m-80m. UAE spent $3B on R&D for their aircraft.

Except to “address any need in the foreseeable future” you don’t need just 4 F-16 but also 4 F-18Gs doing DEAD/SEAD to ensure the F-16s reach the target as something other than flaming wreckage.

The same congress that did the math on the F-22? Those guys?

You mean like calling the F-16 “Lawn Dart” was a real issue?

Funny...there’s more than a couple guys that flew A-10s in the ANG (104 FS) who have said different in the past. I’d take that bet even in the 104th’s ready room.

It’s funny that this article is linked to “Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right” when what cost us more F-22s was congressional (and idiot blowhards like Sprey) support for legacy aircraft like the A-10 and poo-pooing the USAF when it stated it needed more 5th gen fighters for the future.

Tyler: The best fighter for Canada is the F-18.

The USS Iowa is an All or Nothing design. A quick read of any of the BB reference books (Friedman, Conway, Dulin and Garzke) or even a cursory google search would have indicated this.

I think Tyler is most enjoyable when you don’t know the topic he’s writing about.

This is an old post I bumped into but if you want an easy way of making these try doing them in your microwave. The oils in the cheese fries the cheese in about a minute. You’ll have to watch and experiment a few times to figure out the right amount of time to get the desired crispness.

Not a whole lot that I recall. The Orlando and 80’s vintage Pcheca (sp? English is bee) is what I remember them having with some other lightweight drones.

Russians will simply shrug and say it’s not theirs. Given its just an Orlan-10 it allows Russia to test Turkey and Turkey to respond aggressively for the benefit of domestic consumption.

Did it go triple myrrh?

We know why this is happening. The completely inept handling of post-war Iraq by the Bush Administration. If they had kept the baathist around and the army employed there would be no ISIS.

20’ 16/2 small appliance extension cord from Amazon: $8 (2 prong) The three prong ones are around $15.

The brits released a lot of documents from the era. There was a March 1938 report from the chief of staffs that England could not stop Germany from taking Czechoslovakia and the RAF, RN and British Army was woefully unprepared for a continental war. The 1936 RN rearmament had only really just got underway and wouldn’t…

Lol...for someone attempting to use history as a trump card you fail to realize that in September of 1938 England had 2 Hurricane squadrons and 0 spitfire squadrons. Only 4 radar stations existed and British Army could only field 2 poorly equipped divisions in support of the Czech. The RN also wasn’t in as good a…