On one hand I’m happy to see that someone still flies F-14’s.

This bear’s playing the long game. Let the idiot make his video. All the other idiots will see the video, and try to splash other bears.
Boom! 1,000 easy bear meals.

Yes, THIS. Continuity is often overlooked. You have teams like the Clippers overhauling their roster thinking they can add missing pieces. But there’s a lot to be said to having a core 5-7 guys that have been together for a couple of years and know each other very well.

In Mali they had a population cheering them on as they routed desert wahabis from modestly developed exurban communities. I suspect ISIS has some sympathizers in the disaffected Sunnis of Iraq. Sure the Yazidis will cheer when we arrive, but who among the Sunnis will welcome central Iraq state control of Western Iraq?…

Consider operation Serval by the French in Mali. It is template for how good an operation like this can go. I doubt the French have the stomach, nor the Russians the competence to do it in Sunni Iraq though.

First, the writer notes that in the aftermath of the bombing of Turkey’s capital Ankara that took over 100 lives and injured more than 400 others just over a month ago, there weren’t any similar shows of solidarity during international matches

Yes and no. Test pilots aren’t always the most experienced in their field. It’s more of a specific job that pilots will pursue, if they choose to, at some point in their career (and that certainly doesn’t need to be the end of their career).

Supposedly the -J’s have some major COG and flight characteristic differences from earlier hercs, which the AC’s boom-boom kit apparently exacerbated.

All I can say is that Wikipedia is wrong. The Tu-160 was a response to the XB-70 and an evolution of the Myasishchev M-18, the B-1B is an evolution of the XB-70.

It is widely known, and accepted, that design work on the Tu-160 started 1-2 years before the B-1; the Tu-160 had its features lifted off the Tu-22M…

If you have read what Isis does to the civilian population you would understand those innocents who could flee fled, those men who resisted were killed, the women were raped and killed or sold, and the children raped and killed too. Isis traffics in body parts of the civilians and feeds on them that can’t be sold,…

I always remember that story about the KGB and Beirut’s wave of kidnappings in the 80’s whenever the Russians talk about hunting...

A joke, of course, but it does take a substantial chunk out of the net velocity of the rounds, making aiming a different breed of cat entirely. Say, at 600 mph, take 880 feet per second off the velocity of the round, which is comparable to a WW2 Oerlikon, or a Brobdingnagian .30-06, at 2300 fps.

Russia uses the Happy Gilmore approach...ie, UN: “you just hit that guy!” , Putin: “shouldn’t have been standing there!” Then they just continue on giving negative 5 fucks what anyone thinks.

Mmm, tailgun. No sneaking up for a donkey punch on this one...

Why are we dicking around? Nuke the city.

Something something Danger Zone...

Damn, this guy must be on a whole assortment of government watch lists.

Validating our long-range nuclear ballistic missile capability to the world may sound morbid, as using that capability operationally would probably mean the apocalypse, but it is entirely necessary. These missiles stand as our deterrent against such a reality ever happening. Testing them occasionally provides…