“Honey look. The natives are putting on a show for us! Rusty, see if you can’t get the waiter for some Mai Tai’s.”

Good point. We should just start sending every US flagged vessel near there. Hell let’s off load a Carnival ship full of annoying tourists on that reef of theirs.

Any word on how close Teddy’s getting to those Chinese claimed reefs?

Without a doubt. Plus steam boilers are notoriously fussy things. Maintaining them is a dying (albeit deservedly) art form.

I would argue that the US Navy’s CVNs are a LOT more active than the Admiral Kuznetsov. She’s steam powered afterall. It’s not like they can run her at the same pace as a CVN. She basically putts back and forth in the Med when she’s not in her home base. Her transit home, through the North Sea is probably the most…

“Cold War Relic”

Did the guy consult a lawyer? I feel like a well written letter on a well known law firm’s stationary threatening legal recourse would have lit a sufficient fire. A lot less expensive than rebuying the engine that he already owned.

Is a North to South oriented geosynchronous orbit not possible?

OIS is so often overlooked when comparing cellphone cameras. I wish reviews would focus on that factor a bit more (looking at you Giz!). Too often “Photo Shootouts” are done in perfectly still modes. Which are great for comparing sharpness, color, exposure, etc. but so much of our photos are taken with the…

Correct. There really isn’t a use case for the US Navy.

Lol I’m afraid you’re a bit out of your element here. I’ve personally stared at the thing in the lobby of a building at NUWC Newport. It was design and tested years ago. You’d be blown away if you knew how many insane torpedo designs the US has made and tested.

Pretty much. Although if it’s nuke-tipped accuracy isn’t as big of a concern.

I thought they were referencing a nuclear propulsion system?

Here’s the Iranians testing theirs. It cooks in a straight line, but it isn’t really manueverable beyond a few degrees. Plus it’s extremely loud and gives away the shooter instantly.

“There is a reason that the West hasn’t developed super high speed torpedoes”

“Basically a no fly zone over greater Syria, or any part of western Syria for that matter, is inviting a military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, which is a very dangerous thing.”

“Hard to ask a sports league to mete out more punishment than the justice system.”

“Just either go to prison forever or be impoverished and line up at your local soup kitchen?”

As a matter of fact it is, and I get paid a lot less, influence far fewer, and have to toe a MUCH stricter line than any NFL player would have to.

But we had Patriot Missiles in Turkey until just a few weeks ago when we decided to pull them out.