Well written, well researched, and all true. Nice article!

My dad flew P2-V Neptunes in the 1960s and was flying out of Sigonella when the Liberty was attacked. He heard a lot of it on the radio, and still has his flight logs. If I could convince him to write it up, would you be interested?

I looked up the F-16 development time line. The Contract was Awarded in 1972 and fighters rolled out in 1980 to America and Brittan.

The F-35 was signed into contract in 1996 awarded in 2001 and the delay has been marked since 2009 with cost overruns mounting. To say they are delivering these craft as built now is…

Man I just ventured into “All replies”. You have an incredible amount of trolls following you around. Don’t listen to them and keep up the good work. I like knowing exactly how our tax dollars are wasted by the military arm of our government. I like knowing exactly how and why, despite the waste, America is the…

When I was helping out with beta testing of a certain flight simulator, this question was asked of one our resident aviation experts and one of the guys I “flew with” on a regular basis was an F-15E pilot.

Because the wing is actually pointing up. You want less lift generated at the wing tip in order to reduce the load on the wing structure, one of the ways to do that is have the wing twist from a higher angle of attack to a lower angle of attack as you move from the root to the tip. So, if you’re basing what is level…

I guess we got a Lucky Strike with Marlboro Man

Depends on your state. Not in California which explicitly bans them (and lets not have a bash California thread, thank you).

Think of it as boiling a frog by increasing the water temperature one degree at a time over a long time period, by the time the frog realizes its boiled its too late.

Why *wouldn’t* China want to engage in long-range expeditionary warfare at some point for exactly the same reasons America does? What if they decide that this is the Chinese Century, and then need to bring their brand of peace to troubled places?

Are we sure it is not ESPN building a “sick” skate ramp for X-Games Beijing?

why pivot period..and what does that even mean

Hey Corey, thanks for talking down to me. But I used to live there and I’m fairly well connected to current events in China. And not just what your hear on the news here in the states. Maybe you’re a Chinese Anthropologist or something. You probably know way more than me about Chinese culture. And yeah, China’s been…

It could also be for obtaining operational capability.

Just a style note tovarisch, you picked a crappy picture to illustrate your comment. If you want to argue that Obama is an empty threat, you need a lightened shot of him looking doe-eyed and harmless, maybe with a teddy bear photoshopped in or something. The pic you chose is the sort of thing National Review uses to…

The F136 cancellation was always something we were wondering about at the Pax ITF. I won’t call it a point of contention, but it wasn’t a decision that every single person agreed with. I can understand from a funding perspective the reason for cancelling, but remember that the progress that was made on it isn’t lost…

You make a good point.

So these guys photograph themselves executing some guy in front of his family, and within a day we blow up the house, surviving family and most of the neighbors? I’m hoping our analysts are thinking these strikes through.

Fortunately, Chinese are by far the most profligate in numbers of road deaths per capita, so it’s all good. And anyone who doesn’t believe in the stereotype of Chinese people not being good drivers should ride with one for half an hour, if you can take it. Even if you’re an atheist, you will swiftly take up prayer.…

I like the cargo cult reference!