easier to protect them from japanese saboteurs

Does anybody have some portal to english-translated Japanese media? I’d be really interested to see how this deployment is being portrayed there.

This is not the EPA being lax in its regulations, its not abnormal, and not hidden in any way. This is pure tabloid journalism mixed with armchair psuedo-science.

Probably to prove it could be done, as much as anything else.

I remember looking up in the sky during this time and seeing the massive contrails of groups of the bombers returning, north to south, over New York State. It was obvious what they were, as all other planes were grounded.

It is Iran, actually, who has been working toward this capability for several years. Including testing the deployment of medium range missiles from ships.

I know they learn to swim suing in their gear, but It seems kind of obstructive to hold on to all your gear when you’re in water after a crash and in a situation in which most of it won’t go to use

9 crashes every 100,000 hours is “stupidly high frequency”? Compared to what?

Lol @ the claim that helicopter flight is “incredibly unnatural”...like human flight of any sort is “natural”

q:the grenade between her boobs? .. A:NOPE ... then I never saw it

Don’t get sensitive Francine. We all know that Russian special forces guys are probably able to kick the ass of everyone here six times over without even stopping to think about it. These pictures are hilarious though.

Trump would have nuked Baghdad because he actually has no idea where Iran is.

“humiliation”? LOL Are you pretending to be a drama queen?

You’re right. They should have “stood their ground,” started firing away and died in defense of their broken ship. Or at the very least, refuse to be arrested and jumped overboard to drown themselves.

The response 30 years ago left our citizens hostages for over a year and brought down a president, not to mention screwed up relations with Iran for the next three decades. Today Kerry can get on the phone with his counterpart, calm the issue and have our servicemen and boats back in 24 hours. And the nuclear deal is…

Our head diplomat made a diplomatic statement about a touchy diplomatic situation!? That’s just crazy!

Like I said yesterday, I just knew some would be legitimately disappointed that the sailors were returned without real incident.

And every word he said was correct. Especially the second sentence. This is grown-ups conducting foreign policy, not petulant children with no experience fucking everything up for the sake of macho posturing.

So that’s what my ex-mil co-workers mean when they refer to “All those tactical weinies.”

It’s all in jest. If the SEALS released photos with all these goofy poses we’d make fun of them too.

There navy is a rusted mess. The pak-fa is vaporware no stealth planes in service at all. S-400 is unlikely to be as capable as claimed, they can’t identify a Boeing 777 from a warplane. Still using dumb bombs. Navigation system can’t keep them out of Israeli or Turkish airspace. At least 20 years behind in engine…