I used to tell troops to just hangout by the LAV & not to watch the foot bread being made...just to enjoy the final product 😅
(For those who don't know...Afghan foot bread is exactly what it sounds like. They walk all over it & stomp on it with their bare, dirty ass feet instead of using a...
Afghan foot bread anybody??
Safety standards aside, and don't overthink it...but ya gotta admit it was some of the best bread a lot of us have ever had! Or darn well near the top!
Secret ingredient? You don't wanna know lol
I THINK the last time armed intervention was authorized under the UN was in 1999 during the Kosovo campaign? (And MAYBE in 2001 for Afghanistan, just because it was immediately post 9/11?)
Ever since then, I don't believe the west has officially declared war, and instead have proceeded under...
Fair question.
Hopefully the Americans learned from their 2003 Iraq invasion that destroying a country's armed institutions (military, police, etc) is not the way to go & are applying those lessons learned?
It doesn't seem like America wants anything to do with a ground war. They haven't...
I'm extremely leary of believing the falling numbers, personally. It's safe to call me a skeptic.
For all of these MP's to be crossing the floor to the LPC has me thinking there are some shady back room talks happening to entice them to cross the floor...
Money? Promises of a prominent...
First time I ever had Apple Crisp was as a recruit doing my QL2, circa 1999/2000...the food served throughout my 11 years in was always pretty good. No complaints at all here
Whole deployed I had the opportunity to eat at a mobile field kitchen the Portugese brought with them. Holy cow!! 10/10
Absolutely agree.
Thats why I brought up their space program...it's far more ambitious than NASA & so far I haven't heard of any major hardware failures. And their space station interior looks a whole lot cleaner than the interior of the ISS.
Oh probably!! I have no doubt
Made under contract by the lowest bidder, most likely. And in China I think 'lowest bidder' goes lower than we would think...
Nothing like buying a condo on like the 44th floor of an 80-story highrise only to have the concrete walls crumbling & foundation shifting on their own...and living in an Earthquake prone region at that 😬
I'm with ya on the quality control issue
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That being said, Chinese J-10 fighters were...
Chinese arms exports are quite interesting, I find...
Have there been many instances over the last few years where Chinese kit has catastrophically failed a client state? Or any instances at all?
Russian air defence systems don't seem to be all that reliable lately, not against the west's...
The article might be better suited for a more science based thread, but I'll post it here just because of the China connection...
Interesting science for sure! Certainly the ideas are creative & have merit (and seems quite doable given what my pee brain understands)
It would be so cool to...
It might be their lowest goal for economic growth since 1991, but it still blows our economic growth clean out of the water...
For reference, I think our forecast sits at between 1% and like 1.3% compared to their 4.5% to 5%
...
Kirkhill pointed out something interesting earlier, re Iranian...
I hadn't thought of that, but it certainly sounds plausible & likely...nice catch!
And just think, this guy didn't just spurt something out that sounded dumb...and then quickly corrected himself
No he sat at a keyboard somewhere. Logged into a computer. And deliberately typed that out &...
Good point.
I don't think I know a single person that even has a cable subscription anymore come to think of it...
YouTube, Amazon (aka all the other streaming services also) have really replaced broadcast TV & even the cable companies and their specialty channels.
...
I really miss the...
That's well said.
So far, I don't trust him either...but I'm not committed to disliking or distrusting him, he just hasn't given me a reason to really trust him yet.
I am absolutely supportive of him pursuing the plans he claims to have for the country tho.
If actions replace words & all of...
B...but...
But ADATS...???
(I also am not a fan of having the DF vehicles also being used as AD vehicles because once one gets taken out, there goes both capabilities)
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