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He does raise a perfectly valid point, though. The Army *is* indeed a 'war machine', but it's much more than that, and what exactly it is *is* defined by the citezenry. In fact, there are many countries who's armies are *not* war machines, because the government/people choose not to...

ahh, I missed that when I scanned the article.

Well, it's entirely likely that the woman IS in fact physically disabled, which would account for why she was in the handicapped washroom, and why she was unable to help herself up. If that's the case, I don't really think it's all that funny (I could be wrong though, just sayin'...)

Out of curiosity, does/did Canada use DPICM or similar artillery shells, and if so, does this put a nix on that too?

hold on, now... it doesn't seem that pretending to be a cop is a problem either... There's no emoticon to convey the noises I made when I read this one.

Also tied up in all of this is the Indian Air Force requirement for a medium-weight fighter, and the naval fighter that will equip any future carriers. The MiG-29K has already been decided on for the naval fighter, and the Fulcrum is a leading competitor for the medium-weight fighter...

...USAF pilot who makes a number of telling errors, and does a very poor job of building credibility with me ... ex, Flankers do not use Tumanski engines (rather Saturn-Lyulka, IIRC), MiG-21 Bison does not use an Israeli radar (Phazotron Kopyo), his critique of the IAF babying their engines...

I've been using Vista for about a month, and I want to kill it with an axe. My primary complaint so far (other than the memory hog issue) is that it downloads upgrades that I didn't ask for, and since it needs to shut down and restart to install these downloads, it automatically shuts itself...

The Super Hornet was designed to do pretty much two things: 1) to be cheap enough to allow the USN to keep 12 supercarriers.  2) smell like an upgrade of an existing aircraft, in order to fly under the political radar. It does both of these, and they are at the same time its` greatest...

Inappropriate  ;)

...this is hard for me... (deep breath)... +1, Overwatch Downunder, +1. I have as much respect for human life as the next man, but I also still have some respect for a man's oath, and for the welfare of the thousands of men who's lives this guy (allegedly) put at risk. If you can't do the...

The original carrier variant of the Fulcrum, the MiG-29K (known as the 9.31 variant), was tested in prototype form, and conducted carrier trials, but never entered production. None are in Russian military service. India is currently receiving deliveries of an initial batch of 12 updated...

Why don't YOU go ahead and tell us what the dollar value of a human life is, first? Then, everyone who costs society more than that dollar fiugre will then be shot in the back of the head. Or you could compare the cost of INCARCERATION versus the cost of DESCENT INTO BARBARISM. Food for...

Can a C-17 actually be refueled via a drogue? It can't so far as I know (but I have been wrong before), because I don't think it has a probe, and even if it did, it would burn gas pretty much as quickly as it could take it on from a drogue. A tanker could 'drag' a C-17, but not really...

I'll weigh-in with my €0.02 I think we should mothball them. Properly, no bull, de-activate, rinse, wrap, and store them. If a real, comprehensive, frame-up overhaul and up-grade is in the cards for the Aurora (and I'm talking about a 10+ year time-line here), then those 2 extra, low-time...

It famously quoted by a fairly senior USN officer (who's name eludes me at the moment) that the P-3C carrying the SLAM-ER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standoff_Land_Attack_Missile) was the most potent precision strike asset in the USN. This was a few years ago, but the P-3 can still fly a...

Yeah, basic, six years in Gitmo, same diff...

Now, I have to agree with Wesley that this IS essentially an "American" problem. I'm not really interested that this kid is a Canadian citizen, or Pakistani, or Syrian, or Martian. It was an American that got killed, they caught the alleged killer, he's in their custody, it essentially IS an...

15 YEARS OLD!! I can't emphasize that enough. This boy's father put a gun into his hands at 15 years of age and sent him off to fight, and people are acting like the kid is Rudolph f***ing Hess. No one on this board would allow this kid to play contact hockey without a visor, and yet he's been...

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