FYI, the main reason why the F-22 is banned from export is the software. Put simply, it has zero security. You can dump the whole system simply by walking up and plugging a laptop into it (it uses FireWire, so cables are cheap and plentiful) and running the right commands. It’s inherently permissive, because it was…

The main reason they’re going to replace the radar: it and the ECM suite interfere with each other. That’s right, when the B-1 turns on the jammer, it jams itself. It’s been a known issue since the type entered service.

And you can still get 2 stealthy F-16s for the price of 1 F-22.

The reason why we don’t have more F-22s is because (in 2016 dollars) they still cost over $200 million fucking dollars a pop AFTER all economies of scale were realized and R&D costs were paid off. And that’s also without all of the mods we added after production shut down.

“But it’s also useful to remember Rubio’s stances on things like abortion, given that he has a very, very real chance of becoming the nomine”

There could be as many as 5 designs. They’re aiming for some commonality in engines and systems, but that’s about it.

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