I think many of the aircraft currently sitting in the boneyards have high airframe hours, which would require an overhaul to return to service. There’s also the issue of supporting the older avionics with spare parts, which I know the ANG has issues with on their older Block 25s and 30/32s. There’s also the issue of…

It depends on where you live. I lived in suburban PA for a few years and the parking spots were generous even if you were driving Doug’s H1. My Focus was lost in those spots, so I never got any door dings. The part of central NJ where I’m from is an older town so the parking lots are typically tight. Some of the newer…

I’d go so far as to say that they’re a great comeback for the minimalist RWD sports car market as a whole.

Eh, Ford had the 662hp 5.8L Trinity engine GT500 in 2013, which topped the ZR-1/ZL-1 638hp LS9 from the year before, which topped the GT500’s Ford GT-derived 5.4L 500-550hp V8 from 2007. The Hellcat is the culmination of an absurd horsepower war that’s been brewing for years just in the pony car market rather than…

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One of these with a stroked 4.0L from a later Jeep would be awesome.

I hope the 4T65E-HD will bolt in too, because the transmissions in those Citations were made of paper mache and tin foil.

These Ohio conversions might be one of the best uses of military funds in the 21st century. I wish the other services, and the Navy itself, was more willing to spend some money improving existing platforms or adding new capabilities rather than sinking every dime into futuristic mega projects.

Well, let’s think of it this way - what government agencies fly C-235s? The USCG has variants (though the paintjob suggests this isn’t one of them). Maybe the State Department? Probably Special Operations and the CIA/NSA/etc. That would narrow it down to the Stealth Blackhawk or a new spy aircraft/drone in my opinion.

Only if we also have Gundams. Grunt suits have surprisingly durable armor when piloted by Gundam pilots or their allies.

5.45x39 shot out of an AK-74, yes. 5.56x45mm NATO often fragments at shorter ranges (again, highly dependent on bullet construction, weight, barrel length/muzzle velocity, etc). Plenty of rounds do not tumble, expand, or fragment though. Even those that do only do so under specific circumstances. I was responding to…

This looks like a caricature of the space shuttle you’d get on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights.

To be fair, at that range most rifles zeroed at 100 yards will shoot a few inches low. If he aimed dead center, I’m not surprised he hit the bottom of the phone. The fact that he was kneeling slightly downward relative to the phones didn’t help either.

This highly dependent on bullet construction and what in your body the bullet hits. A fully jacketed (FMJ) rifle or pistol round is likely to pass right through soft tissue, leaving little damage beyond the immediate travel path of the bullet. The impact will cause movement of the soft tissues, but is unlikely to…

A star for knowing what 7N6 is.

Until the electric motors that raised and lowered them failed.

So instead of getting run over by the car, the pedestrian would get his face flattened by the radiator? Brilliant!

What is this - a flare dispenser?

Looks like he stuck the landing at least.

I imagine this is what the Roman legions looked like, just with a lot less blood.