Maybe the author was thinking subterranean? Either way, cool system!

Rather macabre phrasing, but yeah.

That’s actually pretty accurate in terms of its slang application. It kind of implies that whatever insane thing that is happening or they are witnessing must still be a part of Allah’s plan.

Those ‘hogs are legendarily ugly, but I’ve always found something pretty about a machine so perfectly designed for a singular purpose.

Ampersat isn't good enough for Gizmodo? I see how it is, now!

Apollo 13 or Neil Armstrong manually piloting Gemini 8 back to earth after a thruster malfunction sent the module spinning at 60 rpm.

The F-35 is Force compatible. All this talk about sensor packages and guided weapons and the pilots are going to turn off the targeting computers anyways.

Don’t worry guys, Brookstone Defense engineered a solution decades ago. For the F-35 they’ll be $30,000 a piece.

For all their failures, this redditor nailed it.

Wait. If saying ‘Mercy’ is a sign that a Dalek is not a Dalek, who did River Song shoot in the museum in ‘The Big Bang?’ That one said it too after shooting Matt Smith.

Came here just to post the Cizeta. :)

Fascinating/bizarre that the military would’ve passed on this so hot on the heels of the Powers shoot down in ‘60. Also makes me wonder if this is evidence of some still secretive branches of the stealth family tree. Seems like Boeing was right on the money with this pitch.

Don’t think so. This is a sales pitch for other potential client states. It’s an ad campaign to show that Russia won’t leave their client regimes unsupported in times of civil strife. It'll sell well, too.

The Levant is kind of an archaic term for a much wider swath of the eastern Mediterranean incorporating what are now Syria, eastern Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, south eastern Turkey, and the Sinai (Egypt). As a label, ISIL does a better job of reflecting the scope of the intended caliphate than ISIS, which suggests…

It really is an underrated and underutilized port. Glad to see that Airbus was willing to say, ‘damn the torpedoes!’

Alabama is a right-to-work state, so I'm sure that was a consideration.

Holy cow. Turns out the Twinstar was not the craziest thing they did..,

Autorotation touchdowns were my big concern looking at the design. Seems like the feet would just dig in. Other than that, though, this design seems to have a lot of potential for facilitating rough field and sloped landings.

Little known fact: aggressive deployment of the ADS System was integral to Reagan’s foreign policy. Once after acquiring an Oscar II submarine in 1989, the S-3 pilot flew so low the plane actually dragged the ADS-88 system (Delayed Extraction/Exfiltration Zone; Next Utilization Tactical System variant) across the…

Dear god... I've got to be honest, man, this might be worse than the plane crash.