Coming from someone who has lived in NJ for almost his entire life, the problem with the nice parts of NJ is that the beautiful parts of it are still attached to the wretched hive of scum and villainy that surrounds NYC (and to a lesser extent Philly). If you live anywhere within a reasonable drive of a highway you’re…

The point is that yes, you can ‘pursuit rate’ a truck, because the only difference between the Tahoe and a Silverado is the open bed.

Whats the difference between pursuit rating a truck and pursuit rating a body-on-frame SUV?

We got an article like this a year and half ago. Is the new program related to the MALD-J project or is it new? Will it have the same capabilities?

I think this is far beyond ‘right mind’. You do that sort of thing because you want to watch the world burn, not because it makes sense.

So, are going to transfer all the functional mechanical items from Swiss Cheese back onto the red one? That one seemed in much better shape until the engine became a water breather.

From what I’ve been told of Baghdad, the roads are similarly smooth.

Methinks Steph needs a Mazda 3 so she’s relieved of the burden of being Jalopnik’s official Mitsu apologist.

That makes sense. I don’t have motion sickness issues, so that never occurred to me. The smoothness of the tracks is highly variable. Some railroads do a better job of maintaining them than others, and most of Amtrak’s mileage is owned by someone else, so you never know what you will get.

And their only aircraft carrier needs a tow every time it leaves port, while their shipyards can’t build major warships for lack of knowledge. Meanwhile, the Algerians returned an order of MiG-29s due to poor build quality, and the Chinese and Indians report problems with the engines in their MiGs and Sukhois. The…

This. If this is true at all, and not Russian blustering, the Jordanians are using it as leverage to get Washington to increase support. I can see a subsidized F-16 order coming in the next year or so to replace the old aircraft they fly. The Russians stepping in in Egypt is just the leverage Jordan needs to get a…

The Acela ticket cost the same as a plane ticket, but the Regional ticket coming home was quite a bit cheaper. That was 4 years ago though, and Amtrak’s fare rates change with the wind (and Congress’ mood), so YMMV.

Really? I took Amtrak from NYC to DC and back for a job interview and it was surprisingly pleasant. The train was on time, the track was mostly smooth, and they had wifi and power plugs in the Amfleet cars on the way back (ironically enough, there were neither in the Acela on the way down). I don’t think a longer ride…

That seems like an entirely reasonable and well considered alternative.

I think you’re missing my point - that big, slow target needs to be defended regardless. Why not give it some capacity to defend itself so it can supplement the defense by more combat capable ships? Adding missiles and an AEGIS system wouldn’t remove the need to escort it, it would partially reduce the burden of the…

I think the appeal is redundancy - you don’t need the E-2 or as many Arleigh Burkes to cover a task force, which is good because they will be way overtasked in a real war.

But if that slow, vulnerable ship can provide supplemental radar and missile coverage to it’s task force, doesn’t that make sense? Assume that in a conventional war you won’t have enough Arleigh Burkes to effectively cover everything that needs escorting. These might reduce the number of Arleigh Burkes required to…

This, and share the radar coverage load with the (limited) number of Arleigh Burke escorts, which already have to worry about BMD.

I’m still waiting on a Norris Packard and/or Ramba Ral version.

Considering that outside of the ‘car’ is a design studio, I’d guess the picture is of an interior styling buck that they didn’t bother putting the pedals in.