Based on the uniques experience and enculturation of “brats”, I would think this would be an ideal pool to draw from for the Diplomatic corps. Besides the openmindedness, you also have an appreciation for the military that is tempered by the fact that the military is made up of loved ones.

Got a link?

While they certainly had a nuclear weapon program, and plans on how to build a possible weapon... those two things don’t equal HAVING an actual working Nuclear Weapon, let alone lighting one off as JimHall was suggesting.

Yes, there are many ways to test and see if a bomb went off. Namely, radiation. Seismographs would show it as well.

Unfortunately the ground invasion would have not gotten past the border, as they would have had to use roads frequented by Illinois drivers.

It’s a small world after all <crash>

Found the English guy.

Turkey is in NATO. You can’t count on being more of an ally than that. But I see them falling away from that, and making friends with ISIS specifically as proxies against the Kurds.

Wow, it wasn’t a lie. The Dark Side does have cookies.

I did IT at the Great Lakes Naval station N of Chicago. I heard a story about the training simulator for the MK 13 single-arm missile launcher. Aparently, one of the new sailors in training got the sequence wrong, and instead of ejecting nothing off the rail, they ejected their training round through the wall into the…

The problem is there is no one left besides the crazies. The crazies don’t want peace, they want to be in charge. It doesn’t matter if Star Bright and the other Little Ponies come in to bring rainbows and love to their land, they will be opposed through asymetric warfare.

The interesting thing about that is if things are as you say, the Red Army could send “Volunteers” in to protect the “Ethnic Chinese Citizens” in East Russia. Like Russia did with Ossetia and Ukraine - playing by the same playbook is a BITCH!

The F-130... launching and recovering drones our the back, slinging long range missiles via hardpoints..., launching IRST probes for WVR recon. good times.

I think for that to happen there has to be a new “killer app” for it, some weapon or capability that will reveal this plane head and shoulders above the rest.

Actually I can see a number of benefits from this seating style:

The “probe” missile is here! (At least for ground attack) The missile that looks for targets for other missiles. We just need an A2A variety too.

Found the writer:

Exactly. A Gay Pride parade could break out at any moment, Russia needs these vehicles to quickly respond to internal threats from civilians.

I couldn’t find it in my quick search, but there was another still that caught some kind of lens flare which was supposed to be evidence of a missile impacting the tower right before the airplane impacted.

Actually that pic made me think of the 9/11 conspiracy theory that the airplane launched a missile at the tower right before impact.