It would be a windfall for Mexican, Singapore, Malaysia, even India.we would lift their standard of living 6x fold the first year. What happens to China when we shut off Mid East oil supplies and raw materials from Austriala.

Actually South Korea would love it more business for Samsung. And apple though using factories on the mainland primarily contracts thru Foxcomm out of Tiawan. Hell, mosre of the Telcom manufactures sold off their manufacturing to outside parties like Foxcomm much like Detroit uses part manufactures and they only do…

just as long as they don’t allow any of the existing industrial base bid on the drones. If not we will be having the same discussion in ten years about the new 133 million F35 enhance augmented fighting capability drone. Then they will bill it as buy one you know have to buy 5 so a single F35 will cost 90million and…

Yes the money we invest in our pilots. The problem is we won’t have any money left for any to be able to fly them. Hell now we need an advance clean sheet trainer to be able to train then and I’m sure you,ll see active wings still flying trainers instead of f35 because of the op cost.

I like the f35 but it’s development has been a disaster and is why they killed the f22. There is no reason we should have both the F22 & F35. But to put all our eggs in this single basket was a mistake from the get go.

Plane will be around 50 years but the first 25 will still be paying to get it to work. Given that reasoning the F22 was operational with fly away cost also coming down for each additional block. Both planes should have been kept but in a mixed fleet. I have yet to see actually savings from the great shared platform…

Same day same results for dos procurement. Wait till we see the new multi billion dollars Stryker cannon. Yours for the low low price of 3.8 million before they find “integration problems that require the Stryker to get a new hull. Hey at this rate why bother we will have the best equipment in such low numbers and no…

They don't need to try I'm sure if they haven't already stolen both the design and manufacturing processes. In the name f cost cutting we end up out scouring the work to an outfit like Foxconn to build and they end up mass producing them like iPhones. Even offer forgien nation lease options and trading discounts for…

So 400k I'm sure we will see the Chinese version about six months after the 3rd gen helmet if field but their will be built based on the stolen 4th gen upgrades required to fix the bugs in the 3rd gen helmet. Out standing how many Division are we now down to in the army because of lack of funding to pay for actual…

Have you been paying attention to what we are doing these days. We are not bring every tool for every situation. The T90 is a threat that we shouldn’t take lightly I’m sorry but they have the edge right now and are showing it in places like Georgia and Ukraine. You can see the progression from Chechen to Georgia, to…

Be Careful think this is the same as the Soviet Army it may still be a bunch of thugs leading them but they have learned and been watching us very closely and actually learning. There tactics have improved and continue to evolve and we need to make sure we are honest with that and respond accordingly. Frankly, I do…

Tyler agree with a ton of what you write and love your site. Sometimes we do need a capability that is not available and in the case of the osprey its a useful and needed capability for the Corp worth the development cost.

A Very Very Bad Man. Come on doesn’t every body use radiation posioning to kill their dissenters or shoot them behind a garbage truck on a main boulevard. Steal his country’s resource to line his pockets and enrich himself like some monarch. Put his former FM in as a figurehead Presidnet and name himself PM till he…

Be careful where you post this before you know it the buffoons that brought you the F35 will think it would be the perfect LRSB you would need to land and reload just touch and go and pick up or dance and drop it wherever. Of course they will do all use this great favor at 10 million times the cost of the original and…

Pure porn a 100 years of aviation development resulting in the perfect form.

I like plane porn and there's some good porn here.should be like barstool sports have a daily smoke show post for plane porn and let the response apply to the posting. Still get excited by the tomcat dam what a beauty.

It's the hot wheels version or an apc. Think it came with a cool carrying case.

Better yet under one of them.

To match vlad forehead

That’s because General Dynamics helped with design hoping to cash in on upgrades and rebuilds of another shitty GD design. They think Vladimir will pay to rebuild the hull as a VHull after the first deployment, then after that they will get the new advanced front visibility enhancement contact to bolt on an old jeep…