Hey Andrew, while I’m a big fan of Tyler’s and will continue to follow him on the drive, my muscle memory is programmed to type foxtrot into my URL. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to your contributions. I’m sure Tyler had a hand in picking you to continue on with his baby so I look forward to the content…

Former fire control man here, can confirm our point defense systems have a cut off feature if weapons release would be in line with the ship

I think it’s a little bit of a misnomer to label it an aircraft carrier Tyler. I get your point about it not having a well deck and focusing on aviation, but it’s still going to carry a shitload of Marines that it can just as capably if not more safely send ashore via ospreys and Chinooks. I was stand point defence…

I have always been curious if the negative camber(or positive I’m not an aeronautical engineering) angle of the verticle stabilizers straightened out at high speeds? Any help?

After shock and awe in the second gulf war... I remember the order going out for the Iraqi army to quit.. There was no resistance, bush landed on the carrier and declared mission accomplished and the general population cheered and everyone patted themselves on the back. I told everyone on my ship (I was just a dumb…

It’s not every day you get saved by an imperial star destroyer

Turkey yes, NATO unequivocally no. The only option would be to make the human race go home and clutch its shine box as it melted

Isis is such a clear and present danger. What else do we need to see to understand it?? Sure al asad is a bad guy, but we need to appreciate Russias need to keep its med port open in Tartus. Let’s get together with everyone and stomp out Isis together and lets work out a peace deal for Syria where Russia keeps its…

Fire control man here. Those bears were locked up for many miles by many multiples of weapons systems.. Ofc we knew it was just brinkmanship. Those bears even opened their doors they would have been angels zero instantly. We(Russians included) know that’s not how you start WW3... We postured through s.china seas,…

The best aspect of these counter-arguements is the somewhat arrogant assumption that the collective perspective of the F35 comment gallery is privy to the confidential truth regarding the JSF program. I don’t pretend to know the truth of the capabilities nor limitations of the F35 program... But I would LIKE to…