Nice castors. Can I order this drone at Ikea?

Does Dick Cheney own this one too?

Yeah i’m wondering if they wouldn’t be a smidge more effective if they looked more like locals. Pretty sure there’s no LL Bean in Tripoli guys, purchasing local clothes should be on page 1 of the fieldcraft manual.

See cuz Donald was thiiiiiis close to busting out the correct answer, which is that the nuclear triads are dangerous because they can radicalize every chinatown in america. Clearly we need to revitalize our white ninja industrial complex and put some tabi on the ground and I’m going to do it because I’m one of the top…

Hey look, it’s the MiGs from Top Gun!

The Kilo doesn’t have a VLS, does it? Then it’s firing these puppies out of its torpedo tubes, making a saturation attack waaaay more difficult.
Given the fact that Russia has a torpedo-tube-deployable cruise missile for their surface combatants already, this development was probably just a matter of time.

What low-observable destroyer, I don’t see anything

All aboard the USS Merrimack Zumwalt!

It was a slip of the tongue, he clearly meant to say “terrorists” instead of “muslims”.

I guess it’s just a lifting fan that turns to dead weight, not a whole engine.

That’s nothing. Wait til you see Patrick Steward and Pat Quinn (Magenta from Rocky Horror Picture Show) gettin’ it on.*

Thanks for the clarification. I guess I meant dedicated lifting apperatus of some sort that turned to dead weight during flight

What, like a Super Harrier III? I’ll admit I’m curious, since the F-16 and F-18 airframes seem to have evolved so much. And the Harrier starts with the advantage of true vectored thrust, doesn’t have to sport the dead weight of a dedicated lifting engine like the F-35 does.

Yes, you obviously need manpads to defend yourself against massed incoming turkish manpad fire

Because kiss the largest bird in sight goodbye? I mean sure they’re bad for naked flesh, but that’s not a super high explosive warhead, it’s designed to chop up flimsy aluminum control surfaces, not bust bunkers.

Because it was shot down by a BUK, and none of your unresolved ambiguities will fix that?

I know right? These days, what doesn’t.

Can you flesh that out for me, I don’t get it. The Kuznetsov was not attacked by a MANPAD-engagable anything, it ran into bad weather.

Hey you know what, sometimes you encounter aerial threats when you’re operating outside friendly air cover and have to stop the bleeding.

Ah, the Ropucha, or “Alligator” class. Not worth a Harpoon, can’t run from a mk46.