“GOPe” is alt-right Twitter slang for “GOP [e]stablishment,” which started off as an epithet towards the wing of the party that was collectively behind Bush/Kasich/Rubio, but has grown to include “everyone not nuking their own careers to help Trump lose by less than 10 points.”

I’m talking about planes, because really who wants to talk about Trump. We know he’s an awful person, and it’s depressing how many people still want to vote for him, so why not have planes?

Aye. I heard it was a “Noor”. Same difference.

Ghost clutch gets everyone!

Well the good news is, after Brexit, the years you lost over there aren’t worth as much in the US.

Welcome to the reason that the “war on terror” is a murky, treacherous bitch to navigate.

No real mysteries here. Assuming the source is the Houthi (and not one of the bazillion offshoots, splinter groups, or conflicting parties in the region), then they’re being supplied by Iran, likely with old soviet surplus or (less likely) more recent equipment purchased from Russia.

A Navy friend of mine said that if an anti-ship missile gets close enough the CIWS takes it out, somebody done fucked-up good. Not to say that CIWS is obsolete, but its effective range is so close that you’d have to have a severe deficiency in the SM-2 to need it. He also supervised some CRAM (Land based CIWS)…

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I can’t believe this isn’t a bigger story than it is. It’s strange, inexplicable really.

Overkill? Not even... Two Standards and one ESSM to defeat two incoming cruise missiles is pretty damn good.

and they did it well. People could have died and they didn’t. If I was their CO, they’re getting medals. Maybe not a medal of honor, but at least a Defense Meritorious Service and a COM.

Insane, no matter where you stand. This is a major deal and should have been the top story, period. It’s as if the COLE attackers had been stopped by an alert sentry but nobody noticed.

Confirmed:

Yup, but knowing who we are at war with is the tricky part. And like all things in that area, the missiles were probably launched from a school or hospital roof top so any retaliation would make us the asshole.

I am glad to see these systems working, since CWIS was never activated I can only imagine the threat was eliminated early and Nulka was deployed early as a precaution. It can take time for Nulka to maneuver into place away from the ship and at the same time I am sure other ECM is being activated to splash the…

Jumping in early just to point out that “retaliation” is not a simple thing when you’re only operating with a ship or two in the region. Depending on what they were and how far away they came from, there’s a pretty good chance that the missile’s owners were long gone before the navy was able to pinpoint where they…

The destroyer fired three missiles in defense in total: two SM-2 missiles and one Enhanced Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) to destroy the incoming ordinance, along with a Nulka anti-ship missile decoy, USNI News reported:

He was a soulless ginger so you can’t really kill something that was never truly alive to begin with. 

It means he’s trying to save congressional seats. He’s telling any Republican in a race this election to do what they have to do to survive.