US consumes 18.8 million barrels a day, China consumes 9.8. So we have 37 days of strategic reserve, they have 20. That’s not war footing either, that’s just the dialy economic grind. Anybody here think a conventional war with China might last waaaaay longer than that?

Um is he 4’9 or did we just troll the Chinese by sending over every piece of naval brass over 6 feet tall?

their new long range bomber is so fucked they’re going back to the cold war era TU-160 Blackjack instead

edits

Nothing wrong with the Flanker line at all, it is, as you say, a sucessful airframe with upgraded avionics.

Yeah, I cut out the single Boreis hull for time. I read the article you cite, the one that’s the first google hit for “new russian sub”, same as you did. Not saying this is absolutely the case here, but you wouldn’t have to dig very deep to find alarmist defense writing that lays out the case that we need weapon…

Is it just me or does this look like Soyuz’s lost little bro

What are you talking about, this is the LCS. By definition that weapon is pointed directly at the threat: dead aft and 40 knots further away every second.

Jeez, Tyler, I love your writing, absolutely love it. You are doing important work, democracy itself owes you a couple gift cards. That and you have a way with language, you can really turn a phrase sometimes.

More like, what successful Russian advanced aircraft and subs are you accusing him of missing out on? Their 5th gen LO fighter is stalled in development (it likes to catch itself on fire), their new long range bomber is so fucked they’re going back to the cold war era TU-160 Blackjack instead, and their best air…

That is literally the opposite of how wooshing works. Do you have a drawing for irony too?

Careful, some of the trolls here are on the KGB payroll. This one, probably not so much, unless it’s a sophisticated reverse-troll trying to lower my morale re: my fellow ‘muricans.

I think it has more to do with it being a torpedotube-mounted selfcontainted missile launcher (like a bullet that doesn’t need a gun) than it does to do with disguising the launch point by a scant few meters.

I literally think zero of these things are true, suspect nobody I know outside my dad’s mom thinks any of these are true. Got a lot of grandmas reading Kotaku lately?

Yep. Let’s not underestimate the dangers of the time travel component of the NFL catch rule. If he doesn’t maintain control the whole time, then retroactively his catch/possession/down by contact/TD/play over sequence never happened. This loss-of-posession-after-down-by-contact that happens is literally after the play…

Also, Ed Hochuli thinks that the Mayor of London is old enough to get that call, so tack on 15 yards (more like half the distance to the goal, amirite) for a facemask there.

So I’m used to american football and to me it looks like we should instead be celebrating that a 42lb linebacker stopped a 235lb wingback (or something) for minimal gain.

Pshaw.

Two yards and a cloud of Civic parts

So this one is weird because usually when a seahawk feels something bounce off him and then keep on moving it’s in pass protection for Russell Wilson.