To be fair, how often do aircraft get into visual range anymore? Isn’t the motto, “First shot, first kill”? It sounds like the only way an older air force can close the gap on a group of F-35’s is to outnumber them in the hopes that the surviving planes can engage the F-35’s in close combat.

I would think that having better sensors/radar and longer range missiles that also have better sensors/radar always trumps maneuverability. Not necessarily the best aircraft will win, but the best missile and targeting infrastructure.

CoD also has the swastika in it. So yeah, maybe the two largest WW2 shooters both have it.

Speaking as a (big) Jew, I’m more offended by people trying to rewrite history than I am by swastikas. In fact, games like Wolfenstein: The New Order are way more resonant for me because they use actual Nazi imagery.

I don’t know if that’s really true. It’s plastered through Wolfenstein. It may also differ by region. The Nazi flag isn’t just an offensive symbol of hatred in Germany, the way the Confederate flag is here — it’s actually banned by the government. So you can’t sell a game there if it has a Nazi flag in it. Hell, you…

I don’t know what games you’re playing but most WW2 games I’ve played in the past 15 or so years have most certainly featured swastikas.

Yeah but everyone and their mother will see an ICBM soar into the atmosphere on radar, and the potential for mistaken intentions would be rather high. With a nuke on a stealth-ish aircraft, no one would be the wiser, and perhaps no one would even know a low yield detonation occurred unless we say it did (only under…

To put that capability in theater. Near-immediate, pinpoint strike capability to strike at specific hardened targets, or to reach nuclear aggressors in, say, the volatile Middle East or southwestern Asia theater.

you mean we DON’t have this capability now to use the f35 with nukes ?

If the War College is essential to teach our combatant commanders the strategies they need to win in battle, then Pentagon Procurement History College is needed so that we don’t keep reliving the costly mistakes of our past.

Perfect is the enemy of good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_i…

I’m going to disagree. I think you’ve got it fundamentally about face in the article - concurrency is more logical for something like an aircraft carrier, and less logical for a large production fighter. There are two issues as far as I can see, but I’ll deal with concurrency first.

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Until September 2014, I was one of the DoD graphic designers working at Miramar and the top of the original control tower (where this scene was shot) still exists, covered in tarp and sitting in a parking lot next to the restoration hangar for the on-base museum. When the Marines took over the base in 1997, they built…

Actually not really. Of course it depends on the optic but many of them you can take on and off with little or no detriment. You have to laser boresight them first, but after that, so long as you put back in the same position on the rail it’ll retain accuracy.

Range mostly. AIP is good for operating in your own waters or the near abroad, it blows goats when it comes the crossing the ocean. The silence aspect is also greatly overrated. All diesel-electric subs are extremely quiet when operating on batteries, but they're very slow and can't do it for long. Once the…

The dead hand of Hyman Rickover.

You hear about the bias because it's real. Gawker Media is an instrument of far-left ideology, and is unapologetic for it.

I'd like to see you and Adam Weinstein sit down and kind of hash out what the hell we as a country are supposed to do. It seems everytime in the Gawkerverse if you ask questions about the Obama administration, some of us considered, automatically, racist, homophobic, backwards, law-enforcement lovers, extreme-right…