The Sea-borne Radar is quite a bit more expensive than what I had in mind.

Tyler, you missed the real reason for this proposal: putting Aegis on a phib doesn’t make it a shooter, but it allows it to act as the networked nerve center for OTHER shooters— like LCS, which doesn’t carry its own equivalent long-range sensor, but theoretically could carry a VLS package linked to an Aegis ship; the…

That’s my gun!!! Seriously, I was the OPS/CSO on GTN when we installed the Block 1B mounts she currently has. I was really proud of the work my Sailors put in on getting it installed, calibrated, and getting rounds down range. It was probably the smoothest thing on that entire tour.

What about the crimes of failing to stop for a law enforcement officer, evading arrest, driving to endanger, unauthorized entry to a federal facility, destruction of federal property, and generally being a jackass?

You can’t state with certainty that the female passenger or even the male driver were wanted for a crime, suspected of committing one or even committed one in the first place. In regards to that there’s literally zero information presented on that, and it appears that authorities have exactly as much information to go…

Of course we don’t, if the US could stage its ‘global mock liberations’ with more notice then we’d be fine!!

Ok I’m curious how does socialism have anything to do with ammunition stocks?

Not sure I buy this argument. The SR-71 needed to be refueled midflight quite often. Where are the tankers going to come from to refuel this if we don’t have that large global footprint. If anything I would say that this becomes a less relevant aircraft if we reduce the number of bases.

I’ve heard the moon can be a harsh mistress.

Not only does each ICBM cost 8 figures which is a reficulois amount for a sigle conventional strike, but every time you launch one you would have to explain to Russians, Chineese (and probably French and British) what you are doing and then hope they are not friendly enough with whomever you are targeting to leak the…

You can train someone how to fight, but no amount of training will give them the will to fight. Iraq/Syria are fractured entities of warring sects/tribes with little national identity. Trying to organize these groups into an effective, cohesive, and collective force, is damn near impossible. This is one of the reasons…

How are you going to “let” civilians leave when you ain’t in control of the city?

Korea? Japan? Germany?

I'm guessing the Kurds leave this one alone and let their enemy and enemy of their enemy to pop off all their ammo on their own.

How is it irrelevant?

But be honest...you’d put up with the music for the IMAX version of the video, no? And just wait a couple of years when you’ll slap on the VR goggles and get the pilot’s eye view.

Man, that is just crazy how fast the carrier disappears in the video when that F/A-18 goes vertical.

My step brother has his fathers copy framed in his den... I’m trying to work on his wife that it just doesn’t fit with her decor and he could come see it at my house... But alas no luck.

Oh.my.lord.

I never understood ‘the whale’ should have been ‘the platypus’ ... unless the meaning of whale was like the Vegas meaning. Sunk tons of money into this ugly thing. Hard to believe this gave rise to the F-117. I remember watching some of the first film on that plane back 89.