That sucks.

Not sure how you can argue MLB and Overwatch are similar enough to cause confusion. I mean Overwatch players are in far better physical condition.

Considering how long the Germans managed to hold out fighting virtually alone, I’d say the only thing you can conclude is that a larger population is more likely to win. Which, really, isn’t all that surprising.

They might also want to try to develop a naval variant.

As much as the F-35 has brought me around on its potential for its primary mission role (supersonic stealth strike fighter capable of operating deep in restricted airspace) it’ll never be able to supplant a dedicated subsonic CAS airframe, or it’ll be awful at it.

FA is about miltary hardware and technology with only enough pokitics thrown in to explain doctrine. This article, salient as it may be, does not belong here.

This is just a temporary measure until they can get the Hawaiian Punch drinking fountain installed.

Seriously. Economic desperation is why people steal bread or take shitty jobs. Many people all over the world somehow manage to be poor without taking hostages at gunpoint.

Yo, if I’m armed and on boat and some joe smuck comes alongside with guns and who the hell knows what. I litteraly do not give a flying fuck about what social economic bullshit problems his country is facing. He is going to get shot, and I will continue on with my imaginary sailor day on a boat.

I think the internet agrees that it’s ok to be ‘critical’ of piracy without first obtaining and retaining the moral high ground by not being a member of a nationality that has ever done anything that you don’t like.

Worth noting that Iran’s fast attack boats are not designed as suicide boats (though I don’t think the odds of survival are that good). They are equipped with rockets or missiles depending on the size:

Part of me knows that battleships are both impractical and just as vulnerable to air attack, and the current doctrine has done away with such gunships, but part of me also wants to see these big floating fortresses get backup from big, bad, 9-barrel motherfuckers similar to Missouri and Iowa.

If anyone wants more info and pictures of this actual event, then this is a post I did last July.

Imagine the horror if the X-32 had won the competition:

Ahh, the good old days.

There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about this. All aircraft avoid thunderstorms for many reasons other than just lightning and if you are just flying home from an air show it makes a lot more sense to wait till the storms are gone than risk losing a plane to a downdraft or something.

Pretty fair take on this nothing burger, well done.

Nah. Just tired of the media frenzy, the righteous indignation, and the common denominator: Stupid kids being stupid.