They just had the wrong pilot

I’d rather destroy a *comparatively mass produced 115 million dollar plane than a one off 290 million dollar satellite.

Just the airframe, everything else can be salvaged

Found on ebay:

2015 USAF Ghostrider Gunship
One of a kind
Babied...never tracked or raced...never wintered.
New wings and recently replaced OEM flight crew buckets.
$50 million OBO.
No tire kickers, no mavericks.

ISIS is our biggest enemy? Sorry but ISIS is not an existential threat other than in the form of reactionary people wanting to throw away rights and freedom to feel safe. Russia is an existential threat the the US. China is an existential threat to the US.

The battleship Missouri went through the canal, but by then it was a support ship, not a capital one. I don’t think the navy will ever let a carrier transit

Theoretically the dimensions at the waterline would fit, but I don’t know that the military would be comfortable with putting its prized possession in such a precarious position. It would be practically indefensible while traversing the locks.

It doesn’t fit in the Panama Canal, so around the horn it goes.

Now that is sad.

It’s not like the front runner on the Democrat side is doing America or democrats any favors either though.

Sikorsky Aviation is based in Stratford, Conneticut and was founded in 1923, 4 years after Igor Sikorsky immigrated to the US from Russia. If being founded in the US 92 years ago by an immigrant makes a company foreign there must not be many companies you consider american.

I believe you are mistaken about this being a Freedom of Navigation mission. You conduct FoN passes through the recognized territory of another state, the US does not recognize the artificial islands or the waters around them as being PRC territory. When making a FoN pass, you usually turn off everything that looks…

Sure... but inaction and indifference also send a powerful message.

The ship would have still been underway, the crew would have still been aboard so I don’t see how it would be an additional cost to the budget. Do you think ships just sit at pier until needed?

I noticed that all the shit in Middle East, Afghanistan and Northern Africa since 2001 has come because of intervention.

That doesn’t make sense, government does not sacrifice.

The ruling class has used its intellectual class to invoke fears of climate and weather in order to control and exploit the masses for thousands of years. Human society isn’t any different today than it was then.

“Al Udeid’s CAOC stated that allied aircraft are guzzling roughly 4,000,000 pounds, or 588,000 gallons of jet fuel a day,”

Lolz. You’ve bought into the absurd notion that the reason that Islamic Jihad exists is because of poverty. It has nothing to do with poverty and instead, it has everything to do with their faith.

This is so true. The Echos are pretty bad. I saw one blow a seal around the rotor and it just bled hydro all over the side, so much fluid it looked like it got slimed.