The program you’re looking for is Future Vertical Lift. It’s a 3 part program to replace the Blackhwak (pt 1, utility), Apache and Kiowa (pt 2, attack) and the Chinook (3, heqvy). It’s early in the program, but some of the candidates for the utility vehicle are the offshoots of the Sikorsky Raider and the Bell V-280…

Tyler was fucking wrong about that. He can pull facts alright, but putting them into proper context? Wrong more often than he is right. Usually because he he some axe to grind about some bigger issue. It blinds him to simpler truths.

I think I get it. Thanks.

Your comment confuses me...please elaborate. Because this is a public website, and posting your writing to it is accepting that it will become part of the public discourse (as good and bad as that can be). Debating what rape is seems like a likely outcome.e to the headline and story. I wonder if getting us to talk…

Umm...no. Countries around the world realize that what you get is somewhat proportional to what you’re willing to spend. That’s why the F-35 has a dozen countries lined up for shiny new pointy jets and the S-3 has *maybe* one, but only for used models.

B-1B is, and has always been, more expensive to fly than the B-52. However, it’s a lot more reliable these days. Which is why the B-52 hasn’t dropped a bomb in anger in 10 years while the B-1 has been flying just about non stop since 9/11.

That airframe is also falling and/or rusting apart. There’s a reason it hasn’t actually dropped bombs in combat in almost 10 years, even though it’s cheaper to fly than the B-1B.

Saudis are Wahabi. Saying that is the same as general Sunnism is like saying Lutherans are the same as Westboro Baptists because both are Protestant.

Umm...no. The Sunnis were not our allies. They were Saddam’s allies. And we were doing even worse with the Shiites, because we assumed they were all Iranian proxies.

Actually, America *and* China have precisely *zero* claim to anything there. Nobody owns it, so they can build a base there, but that’s not the same as having a right to the land. Example: they get no say if America, or anyone else, wanted to park a destroyer 500 feet away from the shore. Hell, America could build an…

Not every antibacterial is like antibiotics. Most bacteria will not, for example, develop a meaningful resistance to alcohol, or direct UV light...ever. Things like that don’t just attack a receptor, or a protein. They start dissolving the whole cell. One mutation here or there doesn’t do a damn to stop that.

That is a sad, lazy defense. You bold the only two lines which aren’t offensively patronizing, and claim, what? That suddenly the rest, which provides *explicit* context as to his meaning, suddenly don’t matter?

No, autocrats are how this shit got started. The Sunnis of the Levant need to figure out how they want to exist as a nation and that can’t be imposed from high by Daesh, Assad or America. And that might take a generation.

Nice spin, but no. He was quite explicit about it. Here’s a line from that same recording

No tray, no cleaning, plus it’s getting mixed in with really, really hot air straight out of the furnace. Is there bacteria? Maybe. I’m not pulling the thing apart to check as long as the air isn’t musty.

Nope. Not even close. Congrats on being a tool, though. How’s it working out for you? Given how often you’re on here repeating tired lies of the rich and dishonest/stupid, I imagine you’re not working at all.

Ehh...Mitt Romney seems to have been pretty honest (for a national politician), which was kind of the problem. He believes some really awful, classist shit.

If my point had flown over BobS’ head any quicker it would have made a sonic boom.

Empty the water reservoir every day? Fuck that noise. If you need humid air, get one added to your furnace. Plus side, since the water tank is usually *right* next to the furnace, it’s fairly easy and cheap to just plug the humidifier into the piping.

No, you wouldn’t want to be the pilot who, though he shot down a Sukhoi, started WW3 and got a billion other people killed too. Can’t have much of a career when your country got mutually annihilated.