If an A-10 and S-3 had a love child it would be this:

Pretty sure it’s an air temperature probe... but then again I’m really not pretty sure. Just a bit kinda-sorta sure that’s what it is.

Prices are not going to go up - they are going to stay down for the following reasons:

I recommended the project video because of what you said about the Long Peace. It addresses that towards the end (and is really the entire hopeful point of the video). Wish I could actually get people to watch it considering how few actually have even heard the term - you would be the first person on here that I’ve…

Since escalating up to a total of about 50'ish fixed and rotary aircraft deployed into Syria over the last year: Assad’s forces have retaken less than 1% of territory on the ground. Less than 1% even while avoiding taking on ISIS directly and while Iranian proxy-militias are doing a lot of the dying for them.

kniga - You’d probably like this project video about The Long Peace.

MAD doesn’t address the massive conventional forces Russia has to maintain to provide for their own border control/defense (even the Russian/China border requires a massive number of troops), handle internal conflicts, annexing territory from their neighbors, and more - let alone conduct expeditionary operations (like…

I don’t have a problem with the US, or anyone else, finally getting away from importing cartel-sourced oil and gas (like OPEC and Russia).

Pilots are not Soldiers (unless they are Army warrant officer pilots, in which case you just referred to as Mister Soldier Pilots).

I think you are right. It was the IRGC: the holy defenders of the head angry guy in holy robes... The Iranian government and even military (IRIA) was probably not involved or in the know. And shooting a small rocket from a cluster of small boats while being watched by air assets just straight up goes into the ‘only…

How is anyone gathering statistics on US females in combat roles when females in combat roles were not possible in the US military up until this recent change? I’d be skeptical...

Changing standards to meet recruitment quotas isn’t anything new though is it? I mean that’s something that will continue (or not) regardless of if women are allowed to volunteer to train for combat roles. Yeah there’s correlation but that’s not the same thing as causation (and tying it to whether women serve in…

Well said and thanks for your service.

To be fair, the Defense Secretary called for the keeping the current standards for combat roles and the service branches are instituting policy in that regard... I’ve only heard people talking about the fear of actually lowering standards at some point in the future.

Well keep your own counsel on that I guess with General Wesley Clark. I have a lot of respect for what he would have to say though I think you are probably half-assedly taking quotes out of context without even bothering to present the quotes in your arguement haha...

It’s sad to watch Russia going the way it has under Putin’s watch though. I don’t feel any malice watching yet another crony capitalistic failure looming as both Russia’s reserves empty as the end of gas cartels nears... it’s just so foreseeable, unavoidable, and immediate that you’d think the Russian people would…

It’s not a new weapon (it’s been field tested) and France is actively militarily involved in more places then just Syria and Iraq (such as Mali) - plenty of opportunity in any case. I guess the hubbub is mostly just based around the conclusion that Tyler drew from its use in Syria?

Coalition airstrikes in Syria have been against ISIS/ANF/AQ/etc not Assad or Syrian forces. The “Countering Russia” rhetoric plays well to вата - but it isn’t based in reality of action and even runs counter to a lot of the other reporting from Russian state media (such as how buddy-buddy France and Russia supposedly…

Russia has been so caught up in transforming into some sort of wacky state funded demagoguery state in recent years - I wouldn’t even want to hazard a guess about specific plans. The Russian in Syria (pilots) acted like they had no idea that locking up Turkish aircraft inside of Turkey while also routinely violating…

There are dedicated anti-personnel/fragmentation RPG rounds: like the OG-7V, that would be comparable or exceed the fragmentation of a thrown hand grenade... but ironically the only place I’ve seen them being used was in eastern Ukraine being used by Ukrainians against Not-Russian™ paramilitary fighters.