I lulzed.

I thought the coolest feature of the SNIPER system was the ability of ground troops to receive real time feed from it during recon and target IDing flights. It’s real good to see over the next hill before you go there……and really real good to be sure the pilot is looking at the target you’re looking at and not your position………..before the JDAM impacts!!!

I thought the coolest feature of the SNIPER system was the ability of ground troops to receive real time feed from it during recon and target IDing flights. It’s real good to to see over the next hill before you go there……and really real good to be sure the pilot is looking at the target you’re looking at and not your position………..before the JDAM impacts!!!

People who squirm at the sight of bugs or are grossed out by blood and guts are more likely to be politically conservative, new studies find.

After reading this first sentence, I knew this article was BS. After all, I thought conservatives were all the gun nuts and survivalists who liked to hunt and fish.

This is nuts. I don’t care who makes the damn boats, but 5,6 7 hundred million for these pieces of crap is insane. These are glorified patrol boats people.

Given projected fuel costs and the Navy sustainment budgets, there is no way the fuel accounts can support these fuel hogs even if the Navy can somehow fiddle with the acquisition budgets to buy more these death traps.

The only thing that plane is missing is a flame thrower and buckets of acid and/or boiling oil.

James

To be brief, the authors’ conclusion is that Fuchida lied in his post-war memoirs, and noted that (pretty-much) all of the succeeding authors used Fuchida’s accounts to analyze the battle.

The authors spend all of their time on the Japanese accounts. They examine Japanese carrier operating procedures and the logs of landings and takeoffs to show that the carriers there weren’t *just about* to launch a raid on the US carriers, and why Hiryu was the carrier that wasn’t attacked in the first raid. They analyze, from accounts, ship architecture and timing, who put what bomb on what carrier. And then there is the adventure of the survivors of the hulk of Hiryu.

They do their homework, and their work was helpful in finding part of the Kaga a few years ago. Run, don’t walk, to your library and get this book!

Artillery donation: Strictly speaking this would be a gift of tangible personal property. Her accountant should try for the max deduction, but beyond about $5k she’ll need an appraisal, and I don’t see the Keno twins coming anywhere near this thing.

Mercenaries: Not sure what lefties will do about this scenario- on the one hand you have icky mercenaries, but on the other hand they’re helping bona-fide peacekeepers not die. It’s a conundrum alright.