The law prohibits killing heads of state. For example, we can’t assassinate Vladimir Putin, but we could take out his advisors and generals.

So it’s OK for Vladimir Putin to threaten us with a cruise missile that’s propulsion system is as, if not more destructive than the payload it carries, and an “robot suicide sub” carrying a bomb that creates a radioactive tsunami, but the US testing a new missile is EVIL? What am I missing here?

And sometimes those land-based assets have to take a longer route than planned to get to the target because someone you’re not fighting doesn’t want you in their sky. BTW, during Vietnam, by the time the B-52s which had to fly out of Guam to make strikes, an A-6 would have made two. 

Well I was on the GW’s first crew and we didn’t have those things at the commissioning, just burgers, hot dogs, and LOTS of chicken patties. They bought soo many chicken patties that for six months there wasn’t a meal, except for breakfast, where they didn’t have chicken patties.and

“Imagine a laser weapon pointed at an airplane. A laser operator could direct the beam into the cockpit, blinding the pilot and cause him or her to be unable to control the airplane.”

I believe Robert McNamara did. But how many others lived long enough for the public backlash to occur? The men who got us into it, JFK and LBJ are heralded as saints because of their civil rights actions, but because of Watergate, Nixon is villified, even though he not only got us out of that war, but ended the draft…

Something else to blame on Nixon: letting her back into the country.

Yes, 81. It seems that every time the last name “Fonda” pops up on the Grim Reaper’s “To Do” list, he gets the wrong one.

How? For every conventional electrical plant we’ve shut down, China’s built 3 coal fired ones and a nuclear reactor.

No crazier than the fact that at the same time the Soviets were our allies.

Paging Doctor McCoy, Paging Doctor Lenard H. McCoy.

Just remember it took a good part of a year for them to get to the Magellanic Cloud. Meanwhile, back at Cheyenne Mountain:

The carrier mods are only temporary while the complete the new defense system for Naha:

It’s just advertising in the method of the target audience. Here’s ours vs theirs:

Not really. The Japanese pretty much accomplished by 1981 via the board room what they set out to do in 1941 via the war room.

Robert A, Heinlien, 1959. Plasteel shouldn’t be too far out since we’ve all ready got transparent aluminum.

Ohh the concept goes back farther than “The Expanse”. Robert A. Heinlein came up with the idea in 1966.

No, they’ve had this capability for DECADES. All of you folks keep on thinking big boom, but what about smaller booms dispersing weaponized anthrax or Ebola. Perhaps “Captain Tripps” isn’t just something Stephen King came up with, and it wouldn’t be the first time the military looked to science fiction for “the…

Most people don’t know that international sales are factored into the price of many modern weapons systems. If it wasn’t for the international partnership on the F-35, it would cost a lot more.

It’s deeper than just the A-10. The Air Force never wanted the close air support role to begin with, and they’ve been fighting the A-10 since it’s conception. In the past, CAS is where the previous generation of fighter ended up prior to being transferred to Reserve and Air National Guard groups. And as far as UCAVs…