Long overdue. The AAV is a relatively thin-skinned giant juicy target that delivers 20-30 KIA right to your neighborhood.

A few of points here.

You mean the one that was believed to have already been overrun, and therefore occupied exclusively, by the Taliban?

Can you provide a link to provide some context for this claim?

Despite what Putin’s RT.com personal rag and cheering section insists is true, it did indeed hit a bread factory, as was widely reported.

Hitler’s Nazi government was wildly popular as well, right to the bitter end - especially when he invaded Russia to acquire “living space”. A cautionary tale of totalitarian states, cults of personality, state-run propaganda machines and the limits of brute force.

... free people ARE the civilized world. You should add China, Japan, all the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, and pretty much anyone whose entire population aren’t a bunch of compulsive boot-lickers!

I’ll be watching the next DOD budget closely to see if they are smart enough to build lots of bakeries that Russian cruise missile sensors are apparently homing in on. I guess I should buy stock in Orowheat, with the end-game being they get bought for a BIG premium by Lockheed-Martin. lololol

Sigh, another dead bakery in Aleppo. Because bread is... you know... a WMD!

Thanks for the Christmas present! Reading Dan Hampton’s “Viper Pilot”. The top video especially captures the freedom of flight in a Viper he describes so vividly. Effortless. So NOT like a Decathlon.

No, because the DOD, and pretty much the entire civilized world, has announced that it wants the murdering pig tyrant, puppet of Iran and Putin, GONE.

You have a very infantile notion of BVR and air combat in general. Learn how to read - like a whole book - for comprehension, or just watch some YouTube videos sometime. While we’re on the subject of infantile, your vocabulary could use some work too.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present one completely clueless duffus.

Unlike most ships, when it was launched it slid into the water without any wake whatsoever. Just a slight sucking sound as it slipped into the water.

Yes, it is. After weeks of airspace violations and repeated warnings to not just the jet it shot down, but to it an another it did not engage, it did what all countries do, it defended it’s airspace.

Whatever you need to sleep at night....

...nevertheless, it can fire a missile at exactly the same speed as the F-22 while not in afterburners, or more likely, after maneuvering at exactly the same speed as an AC-130 in straight and level flight.

It’s wrong. No other way to say it.

Watch this video at about 8:40 and you will hear the IP talk about the aircraft working against the CG instead of the COL only after the Raptor goes into post stall flight. In other words, it’s no longer flying if not for the thrust vectoring. Since an airliner like a DC-10 doesn’t have thrust vectoring, thrust is…

I’m launching at the same speed you are dumbass, and mine is a real-world scenario - not that I was actually recommending using a C-130, it was just a way of bringing the point into focus by using an extreme example.