Tell you what: next time we talk about an aircraft at the NAS Pensacola naval aviation museum, I’ll be sure to bring up the snotty-nosed Florida kids. :-)

Wright brothers....birthplace of powered aviation....Wright-Patterson AFB...Air Force Museum?

Follow with “the Russians don’t take a dump without a plan”

depleted maple syrup rounds.

Oh those islands could neutralized but that would mean you would be the first to shoot

War is Boring laid out a pretty good case on how easy it would be to defeat China just by choking off its imported energy supply. While these bases can be looked at as stationary aircraft carriers for the Chinese, they will get flattened in pretty short order by the US if things go to blows.

Im not sure what game China is playing here, but then again Im not sure that they do either. The US isnt going to throw the first punch, but is more than willing to drag their chin into the SCS until China does.

Hard to create diversity when certain people don’t pass the necessary qualifications. You can’t place unqualified individuals in positions requiring masterful skill levels simply to mirror population ratios.

Not enough join, and not enough want to be pilots. Go elsewhere troll.

What are you some kind of racist or something. Get out of here.

I hope you weren’t trying to imply that the F-35 is intended to replace the F-22 because that is not correct.

It’s ok those were just terrorists.

Please stop with the China owning the most of our debt. WE own most of our debt, China only has a small percentage of it. And if we went to war with them, do you really think we’d pay them back? China would be hurt the most by war with the US.

Drones generally aren’t inflicting collateral damage—they’re using precision guided weapons that hit their target.

This is true. We’re already steering well clear of Russian jets operating in the area. Putin is not going to shoot down an American drone. This video is purely for propaganda on RT. The Russian public loves this shit.

This is the difference between ‘moderate rebels’ and ‘not so moderate rebels’ in Syria.

Oh, just wait a few days and a new, state-sponsored poll will show how much Russians support deploying troops to syria...

At least he wasn’t foolish enough to have weapons under the wings.

My guess is that pilot was more scared then anyone on that ship. He was probably being tracked by Aegis way the hell further out then his radar could even see USS Ross, and knew it. Can you imagine that conversation?

I work full time looking to call BS on the DoD where it actually exists. Neither Russia or the US are completely innocent in this regard, far from it, but the Russian media machine is an entirely different animal. If you think this is bias analysis so be it, but I would read through my work, I think you will find it…