Marpat, or is this what the Koreans use now?

Delta seems to be snapping them up, though they love buying cheap and overhauling as much as Tavarish does. There’s certainly a niche in the market for them - maybe a factory engineered re-engining would make the most sense for airlines that like them?

While you make a good argument for Nissan, Volkswagen is truly the most insane car maker and here is the proof:

OK, so the 747 has it’s own separate line/section of the factory?

Potentially dumb question: if the 747 were to go out of production, would Boeing shutter the plant or produce something else there?

I would LOVE to see this thing on a chassis dyno.

This isn’t a comeback - if any Corvette was a return to tire-burning form, it was the C4, preferably with the LT-1. The C3 was a long, slow, and painful decline into irrelevance. The C4 instantly raised the bar for American performance cars with it’s spaceship looks and world class handling. It took until the ZR-1 to…

I’ve been reading Combat Aircraft Magazine on and off for 15 years, and some of the information has stuck. Glad I could help!

They’re IFF (Identification, Friend/Foe) antenna.

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…