The Los Angeles Basin is prone to liquefaction during an earthquake, so these islands would most likely suffer as well.

What a weird talking point. China has been acquiring technology through a hundred different avenues both legal and illegal and Clinton’s fuckup with nuclear and missile tech was only one part of that.

Great post. The two ways I look at it is they believe they’d have lost face if they pulled back or slowed down, and they’re taking the long view that energy won’t be cheap forever.

While this whole situation is a mess, the part that most people don’t get is that as long as this doesn’t morph into something catastrophic with a provocation that escalates to shots being fired, the underlying situation actually has gotten better rather than worse and is going to stay that way for a while.

Let’s go with Drophead Coupe.

You cant blame the loss of 45 abrams on the tank. Kinda hard to not incur losses when you climb out of your tank and,run.

564 million per bomber? LMAO, at least a 1 billion apiece in the end. Better start selling those Treasuries beforehand or fire up that FedRes printing press :D

The fact we’ve upfucked our need for more duece dueces (F-22's) for some shitty overpriced new toy (F-35) instills confidence we’ll all be here bitching about how someone fucked up the B-21 in a half decades time. lol

I have zero faith in the pentagons ability to not turn this into a cluster fuck.

Ted Cruz how are ya!

Don’t forget where all those came from....either....

Two turnin’, two burnin’, two smokin’, two chokin’ and two no longer accounted for.

I’m imagining an F-35B with a rope pulling some crate or whatever in STOVL mode...lol.

Exactly. The military has the responsibility to maintain the combat effectiveness the assets we invest in. If they cannot manage to that standard, senior officers in charge should be relieved of command, and we should stop funding unmaintanable equipment.

Replace ‘em all with F-35s. YeeHaa!!

Honestly, if any service can only maintain 23% readiness, the class should be grounded. I Served many years and full well understand the difference between industry and military management, but this is one area where the military can benefit from industrial management practices.

What we need is a passionate yet disillusioned crew chief to take spare parts from the non-functioning birds and put them together to build a new chopper. Maybe a controversial lieutenant could offer suggestions that would make the homemade contraption very useful to the military. If you needed engines or something…

I agree with you. I hate opening up a logbook and finding differed anything

“and years of differed maintenance....” Those are two words you don’t want to hear when talking about a helicopter. I hope that’s for like the ten non flight critical components, yikes.

Hahaha. Now let’s talk about Canada’s Sea Kings. These Sea Stallions sound glorious in comparison.