Don’t even go there about the Russians. They’re notorious for blatantly stealing American technology.

Maybe on flat, paved roads. And those things feel like they’re going real fast when they’re going 25 mph. And you really can’t go far on them.

By the time you take a mountain bike and fit it with a motor, frame and suspension that can meet the speed, road surface and distance specs of one of these, you’ll have a…

Man, I miss staying up late on Saturday watching Wings on Discovery Channel...

Oops, did we turn that on?

So I ask for alternative news sources since my last comment was deleted and this page is all but dead, it’s now averaging 1.5 posts a week which is just blah! So, before my truth is deleted on here, can someone please throw me a hyperlink to a website that has journalistic activity at more than a staggering 2 articles…

There’s a field of study in mathematics - I think numerics - where zero doesn’t exist as zero, but just represents really small quantities. Therefore, dividing any number by zero results in a very, very large number. This concept is familiar to most people via limits in integral calculus, but even in calculus zero is…

Still better than living under the Soviet boot; you know what they say better dead than red

So, ignoring international law, you think killing civilians is going to help? You’re literally helping groups like isis write their recruiting material: “look! They’re coming here to kill everyone, why not help us go attack them?!”

NATO allies do reimburse us for the munitions and anything else we give them, but it is irritating that they never seem to have enough of anything without our help.

I have a feeling if we contracted out $20k per head with privateer soldiers we’d have a quick end to this problem.

I guess the problem is that somehow or other, despite 15 years of fighting this war, we’ve never planned to fight this war. The bombs and missiles we’re buying are for destroying a tank or a bunker, not a Toyota Hilux or a shack.

Agree with this entirely. Makes it even more difficult when the kid’s dad sucks at his job.

One of the major joys for fathers going to work is being away from kids.

I’m picturing this happening at a hockey game and it’s glorious.

Well, you could see why people that grew up with this shit would get confused ...

Nothing says “I’m home” in Mother Russia, like a heaping bowl of shit.

The main utility is that it disrupts accurate shooting. Trying to hit something ten feet wide in a smoke cloud a hundred feet across gives you one-in-ten odds, and hence means 90% less fire is going to be hitting your transport.

Your first paragraph makes no sense.

This. How could it possibly cost 3+ billion to strap a radar unit to a blimp, let alone to then not actually have it work? We put radar systems on fighter jets which have to withstand a ton of G’s and operate in a ridiculous temperature range, but doing the same for a fucking blimp is beyond our technical or budgetary…