And when the interceptor with your flag about to be adorned on it happens to be 3 miles higher than your ceiling, and can just fire and forget your ass? What then, I wonder?

You want some irony, so ironically ironic that it's almost meta-irony?

While I dearly love me some A-10s, without top cover they'd be slaughtered within seconds or minutes by an actual, real live air force. They've got a specific job which they are brilliantly good at, but they are not "fighter aircraft". Even one of Kimmy's Mig 15s, with some updated electronics, could probably toast an…

Second one, I think.

"Clearly you don't know anything about how the military operates."

Thank you for getting it. Cheers to you. :-)

I hope you get the flu this year. I don't want you to die, but I do want you to puke and shit for a week to teach you a lesson. You and your ilk are Internet Assholes™.

Look up "Spanish Flu", which (fun fact) was only called that because the first cases reported on were from Spain... although it supposedly originated from an American Army base in the good ol' USA.

The "decent explanation" is, don't believe everything you read. Just guessing, but, somebody's Fæcebook post? Many "stories" from or about Europe on American feeds are purely bogus, I'm afraid. :-/

Also, tell them that if they love their children (or kids in general), get them vaccinated too.

While not the funniest gif ever (that one killed way too many Germans for me to post here), this one is apropos in this instance.

Read:

Dayyum...

"Shit, there is a lot of Tacit Blue in that sucker"

"I saw this years ago at the flight briefing room of Bravo Company, 1-52 Avn Regt in Fort Wainwright, Alaska."

You guys may hate me for this, but that is shopped, and quick and dirty, too. Look hard at it it, and you will see why. I'm pretty sure that if that mofo had landed there, the snow wouldn't be looking quite so pristine. tl;dr: bogus.

This one touched me especially. Think of all that power being directed by just one man. I mean, here was just one man, alone on the flight deck of a B-29 carrier, unleashing destruction on Japan just as his daily job. With all respect to today's drone operators, this guy was the shit.

This move is less lethal, but infinitely more terrifying:

I want this. It would be the opposite of the Pike's Peak event, in favour of, "How fast can you go down the hills without dying?"