Consider a different point: These are weapon shows, not for western audience but for 3rd world dictators who can only afford dumb bombs delivered by inexperienced crews via inexpensive Russian craft.

Actually, I had that verified recently by a full Mal. I originally though my dog was a GS instead of a BM. Something Shepards are supposed to be known for is their physicality, including using their mouth as a hand. If a German Shepard wants to bring you to something, he could grab your hand with it’s mouth and gently…

I’ve got a Mal - Lab mix... she is only 55lbs, but pure whoop ass. Only dog I’ve seen that could keep up with here was a pair of Deer Hounds.

Oh, right... next you are going to tell me that gasoline isn’t a low calorie fuel?

I really wonder what the line is for Russia for using nuclear weapons against and enemy that has no nuclear Big Brothers watching out for it? When France started its bombing raids, a number of posters here urged them to utilize nuclear weapons - something I would doubt a NATO country would just pop off on a whim.

While the bullet may only be going 350MPH, the object it is shot at is still traveling 1600MPH or likely faster. Think of shoving bricks off a bridge onto a freeway below... it’s not the fall that causes the damage, it’s the speed of the car impacting the relatively still brick.

Well folks, looks like we have a newly manufactured aircraft that’s ready for an aerospace museum!

Here is one thing i forgot to mention: White Sands Missile Range. It’s on the exact same heading as the other test would have been, but it’s 3 states closer!

While this is clearly a temporary tat, it settles the matter in the best way possible: Technically!

Man, I wish someone else would pipe in on this. Your pictures are pretty clear, but the missile test just could not have been seen like it is shown, as far as I can tell. I just installed Google Earth and placed my eye at 600 miles over the earth, over the Pacific (400 miles from the coast). At apogee, you are just…

Living within 15 miles of the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles... we WELCOME the Chinese ships pulling into our harbors! There is an empty Wal Mart in Iowa next week if we don’t get those containers offloaded TODAY!

I’m sorry, that’s an inappropriate image for your message.

That would not be a missile launched in California. The earth’s atmosphere is only about 15 miles thick (the stuff the rocket would be fighting against) Think about that in any direction around you... it’s not that far distance wise.

No, that’s exactly the point. The F15’s keep both the Russians AND the Turks from bombing our guy on the ground.

The thing I worry about with SF operating in Kurdish space isn’t the Russians - it’s Turkey who would bomb the Kurds... especially ones who were good fighters, as ones with embedded SF would be!

For everyone saying you need to have another carrier group for each smaller carrier - thus no cost savings - you are missing the point.

You know, now that all our AEGIS systems, CIWS, and other systems were upgraded by BDI (Baltar Defence Industries), we have nothing to fear!

Sure, but China only loses when the shooting starts. Not only would China lose an island base... plus the frontline fighters and tankers staged from there, they also invite the other nations to side with the one who fired the first shot. All they have to do is slow down the energy traffic to China and the war is…

War is Boring laid out a pretty good case on how easy it would be to defeat China just by choking off its imported energy supply. While these bases can be looked at as stationary aircraft carriers for the Chinese, they will get flattened in pretty short order by the US if things go to blows.

What you are saying is “What if we did a bombing mission, and no one showed up to intercept?” That, my friend, is the opposite of a problem!