If it crashes will I just have to reboot it? And I guess replacing the battery by myself is out of the question.

The US made money from invading...Iraq?

Tankers prefer to face their enemy, so it’s nice to have the extra mass of a giant diesel motor between you and the guy shooting at you. See the Merkava: http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/Meka…

It’s too late. The drone hysteria is already here.

The ICBM that Iran is still developing isn’t for Israel since they’re on the same continent. Who could it be for?

More likely its an anti-tank missile.

Driving a car as fast as you can while knowing you have bad brakes is another way to get someone killed. How is this excused?

It means the same as going “balls to the wall.”

The US doesn’t fight BVR battles.

Can we get one of these for a small Chevy? And call it the Cruze missile?

In order to be effectively deployed the aircraft would be required to fly low and slow directly above the target area. Kind of like WWI when the pilot would fly over the trenches to hand drop a mortar shell from the cockpit. And the opposite of a modern weapon system.

Probably left there by a person who took it for a test drive. Back in the ‘80s a friend of mine took a car for a test drive and it ran out of gas within ten minutes. He walked home and called the dealer. They said put gas in it and bring it back, he said “tough, you should have put gas in it to begin with.” He left it…

I saw the Vulcan at Ramstein, Germany in 1986. When it flew in for the Flugtag it practiced it’s maneuvers before landing. You know how big planes look slow when they’re flying? I was sure I was watching a small fighter tumble to its firey demise. BTW, there was a Lancaster at that same airshow.

I’m guessing the XST would have had a downward ejection seat. No ejecting on the runway when your fuel tank ruptures or the gear collapses on landing and you’re afraid the jet is going to flip.

Because the other planes on the flight line would laugh at them.

It’s been 30 years, so per diem is probably the wrong word. We were paid for the conditions we faced. Long, hot hours picking up aircraft parts and all due respect to the family, body parts as well. We had a Dr. onsite to decide if the small parts were animal or human.

I helped pick up pieces of that plane as well as other things. Hot and dusty, lots of rattlesnakes and the highest per diem the military had to offer for 10 days.

So that’s a Matador!

The main gear is down. Was the jet hit while it was coming in for a landing?

Jets with four engines are twice as likely to be grounded for engine troubles as a twin engine jet.