I’ve seen exactly one in the wild, so Im no expert, but it looked significantly less likely to kill you than the extremely short wheel base CJ5s I grew up with.

X2 on the come along. I have an 8 ton cable come along from HF that has been the best 50 bucks I’ve ever spent. Pull from any angle with a couple of good straps and some wet towels.

Its a little of both. By hyping Tesla he makes it easier to get capital and grow the company quickly. They may well miss this target, but they are producing 300,000 while making a slight profit, who is going to call him out on it?

I don’t fault them at all for pushing back the profitability goal. With cheap borrowing it makes no sence to keep that goal especially if the overall short term objective is market share, hence the new goal of 500,000 cars by 2018. The real test will be if they are profitable in 2019. If they can’t mass produce like…

If you look at the magazine tests vw tends to miraculously slow down.

He is correct vws times are a tad optimistic. It only hurts them to game it because they build hype only to fail to meet expectations during the magazine tests. See the current lightning laptimes. Currently the golf r is only .3 seconds faster than the lowly v6 mustang and the gti is woefully slower than the archaic…

Another manufacturer time yawn. Wake me up if this comrs close to ye old cobalt ss during the lightning lap.

But did he win?

Good CAS will get shot at. A plane at 20,00 feet is doing precision bombing which we can do with much cheaper artillery.

AC-130 is even more vulnerable than the A-10, the helicopters lack speed, loiter, and payload not to mention the whole automated killing can of worms.

Because they were exposed to 90% of the ground fire? I don’t see the point your trying to make here. The fast movers were almost immediately retasked from CAS (were everyone shoots at you) to strategic strikes (where you have maybe one SA-6 that was blown up on day 2). This was a point of contention in multiple army…

Alright man you have reached the point were it should register that your talking to commentators who really do know what they’e talking about...

Not CAS like you think...

You can use the cannon much closer to your own forces than any explosive munition with less risk. Its used on a regular basis as a matter of fact due to having a smaller risk estimate distance.

They have far less time to identify their target if they try to operate from the same altitude and at 20,000 feet they will have a helluva time identifying a target even with targeting pods.

A-10 can operate from the same airfield with greater payload and speed, allowing them to reach targets before either Apaches or Fighters. What the B1s is only CAS by the loosest definition.

“Soda Straw” view is a tad bit of an issue for fast movers. Compared to helicopters they’re a pain to talk on to your location or the targets location.

No getting around that dilemma if your goal is to reduce emissions.

They get them through LG who is larger than Tesla for now.

And LG? Keep in mind the Giga factory isn’t up and running yet and Tesla is far from the largest battery manufacturer, for EVs that title goes to LG.