OPFOR makes the most sense, but it just seemed odd to see seemingly foreign camo on US troops, even in training.

Crye’s too rich for my blood, though they have no nice patterns. I just found it odd that US troops would be wearing non-standard camo, but if they’re OPFOR or the super-duper-HSLD types, they can probably wear whatever they want.

The accuracy of the weapon is only as good as the aim of the shooter. Precision of your weapons don’t matter much if you shoot at the wrong target. The Russians don’t even profess to care, which suggests a different - and more callous - mentality than the US government professes*.

In the open desert, sure, use dumb bombs. But in a densely populated urban area? That’s apathetic at best, callous at worst.

There are plenty of videos from the war in Ukraine if you want a taste of that. Massed artillery is terrifying.

I’m at work, so I can’t listen to the sound, so this might be really obvious to someone who has but...

Agreed. I’d like to see a TIE Fighter stop an AMRAAM

Do you have more information on the reliability of the CVNs, and other Navy ships for that matter? I’ve never seen that discussed in open sources.

It looks like chin beard to me, like Tito from Rocket Power:

NP. Buy it and drive it until the rust tears the body apart, then use it as a parts car to keep a less rotting one going.

Quoting myself here:

I can do one better - I saw a CTS Coupe with a cloth landau top. It had the stock wheels, but it wasn’t much better looking than the monstrosity below:

This whole thing is awesome, but keeping poverty caps on the wheels really makes it.

Is that overall reliability, or powertrain specific? Likely the only truly Fiat engineered part of the 124 will be the engine. If that’s reliable in the other Fiats, the rest of the brands reliability ratings are irrelevant.

I had ZIP disks too. Kids these days look at me like I’m nuts when I bring it up.

Good lord. What did they do, have a few dozen officers mag dump into the building multiple times?

You guys should frontpage ttyymmnn’s ‘This Date in Aviation History’ posts from Oppo more often. He does a fantastic job of dredging up obscure aviation history and technology, which is something Flight Club probably should have be doing in addition to reporting general aviation news.

Jalopnik is the ‘mother’ blog, with Lanesplitter being a sub-blog, therefore Lanesplitter’s posts are shared on the ‘mother’ blog to draw traffic from a wider audience.

Here’s one better - I’m 26 and I never used floppy disks when they were floppy. By the time I was using computers, they were all plastic cased, so even when I was using now-obsolete technology, the terminology was out of date!

To me, this seems like a great idea. This round of upgrades allows your smartphone - constantly being updated, replaced, and improved - to be the brains behind the operation and your car simply becomes a hub or receptacle. I’d rather have every bit of integration software possible in a car, so the automakers can stop…