Great catch. Thank you!

I would think if it was really super secret they’d be moving via C-5 and at night.

*some assembly required

SR-71 in a box.

In it’s current state, the Kuznetsov is more like a fancy barge.

It’ll be a real carrier, but it’s being pushed by tugboats.

Russia’s not Iran. They do have a real carrier:

Well this is 9 kinds of shady. Still, it would have been hilarious if they had made it to Portland.

they currently have a swan paddle boat, a pair of binoculars, and 2 saltine crackers. They have their best men on the job.

But Tavarish said it was a better value than a new Mercedes C-Class!

Just don’t bring your cat on that hunt

The boat’s XO is right at this minute musing to his captain about living in Montana & getting a pickup truck.... or perhaps even a ‘recreational vehicle’.

Wait — you mean 50 year old Soviet diesels are somewhat less than 100% reliable?!?

This. How could it possibly cost 3+ billion to strap a radar unit to a blimp, let alone to then not actually have it work? We put radar systems on fighter jets which have to withstand a ton of G’s and operate in a ridiculous temperature range, but doing the same for a fucking blimp is beyond our technical or budgetary…

He should definitely do a Reddit AMA.

Of course the Supreme Commander can approach the warhead (which he designed himself on the back of a napkin) because he is totally immune to radiation!

I’ve been flyin’ all night, my hand’s wet on the stick. There’s a voice in my ear, tells me how my weapons tick. My CO called, said he needs me home. It’s 1630 hours, overheated dome. When it gets warm outside and my targets disappear...200 million bucks can’t cure my primal fear. Don’t need to talk at all — I got a…

It was a militant camp, not a village. And by potentially killing a few civilians, you potentially spared a few hundred from dying by suicide bomb.

Carrier Drift!