So basically you would feel less safe sitting in the same room as 50 armed cops, then you would sitting on a subway with 50 random passengers? It’s pretty obvious you lack critical thinking abilities.

Mining operations aren’t cheap, and evidence says that the Air Force straight up DESTROYED some of their operations, so I’d say that 5.2 million is lowballing what they are owed. Severely.

You’re aware the the government dropped Colt in 2013, right? FN has the contract now, and surprise surprise; they’re making M16’s still. Reliability isn’t the primary reason, it’s a familiar weapons platform with an entire industry behind it to keep them going. Changing the platform on a total scale would hinder the…

It’s not always about force projection.

The Stryker has a variable tire pressure system, so it can deflate to drive better off-road or in the snow.

Oh definitely; your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker.

During WWII, our grandpa served on the Army. They trained and were equipped to go fight in Africa. They deployed from the Presidio of San Francisco and were underway to Africa when new orders came through. So they ended up landing on Attu (Alaska), equipped with largely desert gear. Grandpa survived but never liked…

I’m kinda upset that this much ingenuity is so heavily constrained by laws that...I can’t really fathom the purpose of. Seems like basically the next big thing in gun design is not going to be in the hands of independent inventors in America anyway. It’s no wonder the Europeans have all the zaniest new designs, while…

Southwest doesn’t fly at 700 mph at 200 ft or Mach 1.25 at 50,000 ft with a variable geometry wing, a range of 7,400 miles (ferry). Concorde is the closest we came and...well...its a shame I never got to ride one.

A strip alert is to maintain some number of aircraft (call it 2) at a high level of readiness so it can go within the allotted time (30 mins or 5-10 mins from alert).

No hate, I really like the B-1B. It’s just they are maintainence hogs. 60 hours per flight hour vs 53 for the B-52. It also only has a 57.9% readiness rate vs 75.3% for the B-52. From what I’ve heard they are all broken in some unique and annoying way.

No, it’s not. Not for what we’re expected to do. We need to either do less, or spend more. But the current situation is clearly untenable.

All I see are kamikazi craft. which is slightly terrifying.

Yeah, not sure why he didn’t take a swing. Hoping the ump would call it a ball?

Well, it wasn’t really me that did it. But it’s all in the past now, we’ll just continue blindly following you into conflicts in the middle east.

Still haven’t forgiven you for that... but then we were trying to take Canada so maybe we had it coming.

We torched the White House once for such things...

We’d invite you over for some tea, but we threw it all away.

India’s developing pretty fast though, and they’ve maintained a fairly stable democracy for almost 70 years.

Holy hell, this is Metal as shit.