So the head of MarineAir is lying when he admits this major issue? The Virginia Pilot made this up? I have heard similar things from the community directly.
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The story of how Iran flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf has been hot defense news…
It also remains one of the bloodiest moments in modern warfare that some would argue was entirely unjustified.
My grunt buddies beg to differ. If they heard that a pair of F-16s were on the way, they could expect their fast and fragile saviors to stick around for 10 minutes, drop a few bombs and leave. A Hog sticks around, low and slow, for quite a while longer. Ask a soldier which he prefers over the battlefield.
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Because Kei cars make up about 40% of the market, with most of the rest being sub-2 litre 5 door hatches. “Trucks” pretty much don’t exist, except as commercial vehicles. There aren’t any restrictions on where you can drive a Kei. You see plenty on the expressways, and I recently drove one on a 4 hour trip, mostly on…
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The perfect hull shape for making Kraken Sashimi. No longer will our outward flaring hulls fall easy prey to that monster of the deep’s tentacles!!
Sure thing. Back in WWII a pilot could be fed a target via data link or self select a target that may have a relative speed of 1500 mph and just let the weapons system calculate a firing solution and even control the aircraft to meet it without exceeding airframe load limits or throwing away energy, firing a very…
I think their windows were inspired by the Camaro
There are, in fact, two planes. One real, one decoy.
I've neem reading your stuff Tyler for awhile now and have been enjoying this site immensely. I enjoyed this article too. I don't have anything particular to say, though. I just feel ashamed that I haven't chimed in to tell you how much I appreciate your tireless and interesting work. Well done, man.
Many years ago I was in the USAF for Desert Storm. I was at KKMC where we had a squadron of A-10's and F-16's. When the first A-10 to be shot out of the sky went down a foursome of F-16's took off in anger in an attempt to find and guard the downed plane. I have never seen a jet move that fast in my life. All 4…