Currently, there is no Western replacement for an aircraft that can carry an Abrams tankinto a war zone on one day and the Secretary of Defense the next.

Apples and oranges. The F-14 built on existing, proven technology (the F-111) and adapted it to naval use, just as the F-15 did represented an evolution of PROVEN technology.

"high stakes trolling " is the best way I could ever think of describing the UK's carrier procurement debacle.

Tyler, when are you going to do a piece about the LRS-B drama with Lockheed and Boeing vs Northrop-Grumman, and some of the recently rumored ups and downs in that procurement process?

Why the AC-130 and A-10 aren't army hardware in the first place is mind-boggling.

Much like going super-saiyan, the mentally-initiated erection can be achievable with enough hard work, practice, and dedication

The real question is whether this film is simply "bad", or whether it transcends that and becomes "Showgirls-bad"...

You beat me to it:

It's an absolute landmark film aesthetically, on the same tier as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, The Searchers, The Matrix, etc (coming from someone who's overall "meh" on anime), and the story/characters are a lot better than most people give them credit for being.

We could bring peace to the world, just imagine...

"Coffee is much better when it's decaf"

The world without the lactose-intolerant cultures ever existing would be much the same as it is today, only with more green space.

As a proud member of the Adult Lactose-Digesting Master Race™, go fuck yourself!

The prospect of backdoors, cyberwarfare, and the very real possibility that someone could pull a Stuxnet on these systems should scare the hell out of the Navy's planners.

Ah yes, the "Battlestar Galactica" method...

I'm disappointed that nobody decided to REALLY stir the pot and track the socioeconomic results of growing up in a religious vs nonreligious family.

This in-thread reply got a little long so I'll leave it here for posterity and to pad the grays (woohoo for being able to express opinions on a level playing field!)

I'm not going to side with the whole gamergate bunch and the other less than savory aspects of /b, but honestly, how is 4chan really any different than most of the Jezebel commentariat?

It stopped being Melville's line after Montalban

Yeah, keep the standards to offer some point air defence capacity but link them to a destroyer for targeting. Bolt on a RAM turret for small craft and point defense.