They must fight over who gets to drive the chase car. That would be so much fun.

What James Action explained to me, more specifically, is that the vehicle would have to turn at 10s or Gs, and it is doubtful any hypersonic can do that at the moment.

Let’s see. No American bank will loan money to Donald anymore. Deutche Bank is just about the only real financial institution in the world still willing to take a chance on his welching ass, and he’s up to his eyeballs in debt to them. Plus, he’s been badmouthing Germany lately.

I wonder who shows up first:

Mini-mills destroyed the old school steel mills. This was detailed in Clayton Christianson’s book, The Innovators Dilemma.

Soon as he said that, I was like “You keep my city’s name out of your filthy mouth, goddamnit.” We didn’t elect you, and Peduto hates you.

Pittsburghers have plenty of experience with the attitude that goes “screw the environment, let’s do whatever makes money.” It’s what we’ve been working for decades to clean up. Pittsburgh is a poster city for how to recover after coal and steel and manufacturing have fucked everything up.

I think it’s fair to appeal to a wait-and-see attitude.
The US post-Vietnam moved to an all volunteer military, & really invested in the 1st generation of smart weapons in land warfare. The result was the Gulf War — and the enormous contrast in horrible predictions of a bloodfest, versus the reality we didn’t even…

Basically, the same places one might go in the event of a tornado.

The biggest defense challenge the USA faces with Russia is right here:

I have a somewhat different view, based on the article you cite: The target is completely achievable and realistic, with the major exception being the low fuel prices which led to unexpectedly large numbers of fuel consumption vehicles being sold.

Reading between the lines 2 things stand out:

No problem!

Good point

It’s nifty, but I think that Ukraine would be better served with shipments of these: