alright, hypothetical query. Say the developments in radar tech render any gains in stealth tech prohibitively expensive and impractical, what’s to prevent the new approach being jets that are merely fast sleds with increasingly powerful AESA, etc. to help them see for miles on end able to launch high tech high range…

There’s at least one fiber-optic GBIC I can see on the front top circuitboard. Doesn’t look that primitive to me.

I'm agreeing.. His analytical work is top class but his perspective more & more is coming across butt hurt on the F35

They ditched the waffle fins on the K-77. Interesting.

You lost credibility the second you went all :D :D :D :D

There you go.

Not quite as scary as usual:

In Russia, Spooky is an old twin engine airplane with many little guns. Three rounds per square meter if we fly low.

The F-35 is intended to replace the Harrier. It isn’t a T-50, F-22, but more like the Su-25. It isn’t a A-10 either. A A-10 can’t take off & land vertically. It’s no F-18 either. Electronically it is second to F-22, & is projected to work hand & hand with it.

All-aspect stealth, LIPR radar, advanced avionics, fully networked with other battlespace infrastructure.

Ah, that drone guy’s articles get on my nerves at times. The drone stories are the saving grace, if you ask me.

You need to get your history books outside of the Us man... Japan was about to surrender when Russia decided to go at war against them also. The use of the H-bomb was solely done “to prove a point”. Japan was already beaten and looking for ways to surrender without losing face.

Every time the situation in the Middle East takes a turn for the worse, the brilliant 1981’s caricature in Asterix and the Black Gold, by Uderzo, reminding us how it has been like that for thousands of years, always comes to mind. Unfortunately, behind a good-humored caricature, there is plenty of suffering and actual…

It could very well be a modular communications intelligence gathering package that will allow the P-8 to pick up some of the slack for the USAF’s RC-135 and U-2 (in Senior Spear configuration) fleets, as well as the Navy’s own secretive EP-3 Aries cadre among other smaller platforms. Such a capability will allow the…

In the food world as in the battlefield, BACN makes everything better.

If we are talking about the US (since I’m not familiar with Irish laws), sexuality is protected class, like race or gender, that is expressly protected against discrimination. Being a member of a hate group like the KKK is not a protected class. It’s not about what is put on the cake that’s at issue, it’s about who is…