You missed my point - that line was talking about shore bombardment, or laying down a line of artillery fire for your troops to advance behind. In other words, throwing alot of “bang” in a general direction hoping it does something. Like strategic bombing in WWII. I fully support using the guided munitions in railguns…

This goes back to something I posted on the Infrared systems that are being fitted to planes - we need to mount them on the front of an air breathing missile system: Creating a “Probe” if you will, like in Star Trek.

“Such a setup would be ideal for long-range ship-to-shore area suppression and attacks on large fixed targets.”

Again, I would point out that this is not supposed to be an order of royal succession. The country does not belong to the Obama Dynasty, Clinton Dynasty, Bush Dynasty, nor Romney Dynasty. Saudi Arabia is Arabia that belongs to the House of Saud. It is VERY important that they have the next leader chosen before this…

I was thinking that too - but I was also thinking about sea level rise in the next 50 years are going to sink these islands again anyway. That combined with salt water on the rebar and South Pacific storms... did they just go to war with the Pacific Ocean?

As I posted to T5Killer: the people who come in #2,3, 4 in an election ARE in the know about relevant events just from the news. All they need is the latest briefing. That’s no different from their first day in office anyway.

They only have SOME more information. In this news based world, you really have to try to not keep abreast of current events - especially if you were #2, 3, and #4 in any given election. Those people know what’s going on, except for the latest briefing. AND you forget that previous VPs were specifically OUT OF THE…

OK, I’ll ask the question: In a democracy, why do politicians need to be saved?

Well, we are not the only ones who do that. I was reading an article on the T-72, and it talked extensively about various export versions - like the ones we faced in Iraq. Some things make sense - like not having radiation curtains inside, others suck for the customers - like less armor.

I think they are trying to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s thinking.

That would be the case that is laid out in this article: http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-…

I think he wrote Yemen instead of Morocco.

Can you imagine what fun you would have in a yacht with one of these, when a Backfire bomber flies overhead in international waters...

“Defensive Weaponry: 2 Mk56 Sea Sparrow launchers, 2 RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, 3 Phalanx CIWS”

Whenever I see this I always think “GODAMMIT Phil, do you even know which side is Starboard?”

It would seem like this weapon loaded to the gills with BLU-108 submunitions would make a great gift to Ukraine. Takes out Soviet armor, and cannot target civilian populations... what’s not to love?

That has less to do with the sensors on the drone and more to do with the censors back at home. Yes, I spelled that right. When we can’t get the information - because it is censored from us - we can’t hold those who are making these decisions accountable.

IIRC, EOtech addressed this picture stating that the sight could be mounted either direction and it would still work correctly. I think it was designed this way.

This is a really good picture. It brings the extraordinary out of the soldier

Here, take this “,” and this “.” - it’s obvious they are broken on your keyboard or phone, so you can copy and paste them on your future posts so they are readable and you don’t look like the crazy babbling person in front of 7-11 ;)