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The radar on a wedge tail is probably bigger than the entire fuselage of an MQ-9B…size = aperture = power & resolution & diversity (beam forming and EPM/ECCM).

Whew! I wasn’t the only thinking that… 😉

Interestingly, while OS reports approximately 3,000 SRBMs in Iran’s inventories, they apparently have just 150-200 TELs (transport/erector launchers) which are being picked off by IAF F-35s. At some point it will be like having a bunch of rounds but no gun to shoot them from.

Looks right, Kirkhill. Any bets on how much of that 55% debt is owned by China? 😉

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The more pertinent question is ‘who owns your debt?’

You’re not bankrupt if you continue to service your debt and run operations. Why didn’t Japan become bankrupt when it passed 100% debt:GDP? When will Japan actually become bankrupt? 275%? 300%?

At least one can count on Alberta being the biggest contributor to AB’s GDP.

Insight on the *787’s RAT from one of my fave air incident commentators, blancolirio (Juan Browne, retired USAF and current AA 777 first officer) The aircraft had to be in bad shape if the RAT deployed pretty much after liftoff. 😔

CIA and Hollywood agrees! …but others prepare to roll their eyes… https://collider.com/argo-movie-accuracy/

Interesting video with the entire sequence from brakes release to crash. At about :29-:30 is where I see what looks like settling below the climb out path. The fuselage climb attitude doesn’t change much, so it appears more like settling vice all out stall, where the nose would drop suddenly...

Canada did enough already giving nuclear technology to Pakistan and India, making them promise to use it for peaceful purposes only.

For reference to the flaps. Takeoff setting on a 787-8 can be as ‘Flaps 1’ which is mostly leading edge slats and 1° flap. Admittedly that is pretty hard to see from behind, as would Flaps 5 as well. Maximum takeoff setting is Flaps 20, which would be very evident from an aft view. Saw the...

Looking for confirmation of the RAT deployed, but don’t see it. It looks very much like 0° flaps from the aft view, but the fwd (leading edge) slats, think of them at ‘flaps’ in the front of the wing, have an ‘auto-gap’ function that deploys them (if below 240 knots airspeed indicated), even if...