I’m sure Congressional deals are what’s getting that Gulfstream a no-bid contract.

Common sense says just get more C-130's to do the mission, if the old ones are wearing out; the Juliet model is still in production. (easiest way to recognize those is they’re longer, and if not moving, 6 propellers vs 4 of legacy 130's)

Fighting in the high frontier is inevitable. Just a matter of who has the technical know-how and political will to do it. The world doesn’t sit still.

Yeaaaah, not gonna lie, not a good look, even if it’s innocuous by dint of her income (not insubstantial) & obvious familiarity with the industry.

There are types of disagreement that aren’t trolling, but go ahead and throw that softball for the peanut gallery.

Those topics had an undeniable political aspect, but articles written about them were not part-and-parcel partisan hatchet jobs.

National missile defense for Israel is a THAAD-level system, because that’s the size of the country.

What the US has in fact done globally — by doing the difficult, expensive upfront work of networking C2I, sensors & systems from North America, to the seabased X-based radar, to individual maneuver ships — exceeds…

Nuclear winter models were never real science — they were meant to exaggerate the effects in order to push an anti-nuke agenda, one model, e.g., which assumed a uniformly-flat Earth on the globe. (not like flat-earth society, but no hills, no valleys, no mountains)

Scientists have always had their own biases, that was…

W’s action or lack thereof has
1) nothing to do with Trump
2) exonerates Obama of nothing.

Magnificent red herring.

Truly weaponizing space may or may not happen in our lifetimes, and if it were, I’m not sure Joe Q. Public will hear about it.

What I’d like to see is a new-build hypersonic aircraft throwing HIBEX... DOWN.

And the F-22 was mothballed in such a manner as to be able to be put back into production — in 2009. Connexes supposed to be full of spare parts wre empty.

Besides the fact: %100 of the engineer data is.... 80's vintage crap.
Considerable effort would be required just to bring it up to a reasonable, modern standard…

Great idea from 30 years ago (when it lost to the F-15E); from now, we probably wouldn’t see IOC for 10 years.

There’s only so much money for every separate platform; different platforms also represent differing spare parts & logistical back ends and cut into the available USAF manpower pool.

Alaska: Polar interdiction of Bears & Blackjacks.

It’s current future is a glorified missile boat.

How did I miss that gem?
Which article?

Dashcam fisheye FOV’s neuter your sense of speed and what looks safe.

Came here for Holy Grail references. Leaving happily.

Don’t need icebreakers when the poles are melting; drill, baby, drill.