Not necessarily. The A actually comes out slightly ahead on combat radius as is, because it’s not hauling the extra structural weight of the C’s wing while using the same engine. Besides the IAF’s own combat experience would preclude them from forgoing the option of an internal gun unless they had no other choice.
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Yeah, I had been thinking it would be interesting to see what they would do if they got a similar deal to the Indians for a variant of the PAK-FA and worked it over like they did when they developed the Kfir.
Give that martyrdom act a rest. If you’ve read any of Jeff Goldberg’s stuff over in the Atlantic, you’d realize that the White House “whiz kids” were looking to shit the bed in the relationship from day one back in 2008. In an attempt to ingratiate themselves to the rest of the Middle East.
Unlike the Air Force and their current stealth at all costs mindset, the IAF are much more in step with the Navy’s attitudes towards stealth technology. In that it’s a nice bit of excess capability to have for however many decades it remains effective, but stealth will never truly supersede a multi layered electronic…
You’re right, why worry about Israel when Lockmart and DoD the can “Keystone cops” the F-35's secrets all on their own. I mean never mind the existence J-31 et al.
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Yeah, it was curiously ironic that Hef would leave Esquire all those years ago, only to have the company he started try to elbow its way into Esquire’s media turf in his twilight.
Not going to lie, baby Winston was SO adorable that I really did get choked up.
It was a bit of a cheeky generalization on my part. Apparently the SEALs have been having trouble sourcing enough rifles for units deploying, to the point that returning platoons are having to share theirs with the deploying platoons. In addition, they’re having trouble requisitioning enough live rounds for training…
I hear JSOC was having problems with its supply chains, but shopping out of the “North Face” catalog for arctic gear? Eesh
Nah, when it comes to stealth fighters the YF-23/ Pak-Fa look has always been much more strikingly next gen. Both of Lockheed’s jets look like they bolted stealth facades on gen 4 fighters by comparison.
Yeah a fun little point Lefties love to point out is that the DoD’s budget is equal to the next 10 countries on the defense spending list combined.
Based on insinuations further up in the comments, it sounds like a shore posting with the inconvenience of knee knockers 90 percent of the time.
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Sounds like they were gathering intelligence...
Eh, I only noticed him twice, once when I was string along the Railroad to unlock the courser chip and that other time when I led the Brotherhood raid on their HQ. ;)
As an older millennial, born in the mid 80's, I certainly didn’t help with this. Top shelf Vodka straight or in a tonic is the only booze I’ll allow myself to conned into to buying for my own personal consumption.
Her casting does make a certain bit of sense, if you want to be base about it. Given that the Major would comes across as a mashup of two of her more recent roles, Lucy and Black Widow, to someone from Hollywood.
The moment the Gen-6 fighters appeared in the gif, a bad joke popped into my head.