OT: This is so freaking COOL!

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anchor's away

U.S.S. Detroit

Detroit Rock City.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

F-35 Program -- a Danger to U.S. Defense | National Review Online

 

[evolver115]

F-35 Program -- a Danger to U.S. Defense | National Review Online

For this trillion-dollar-plus investment we get a plane far slower than a 1970s F-14 Tomcat, a plane with less than half the range of a 40-year-old A-6 Intruder, a plane whose sustained-turn performance is that of a 1960s F-4 Phantom, and a plane that had its head handed to it by an F-16 during a recent dogfight competition.

All I have to say about that article can be summarized by talking about the above quote i pulled. An F-14 Tomcat could not detect it, and the F-35 would thereby destroy it while going unseen. Who cares if the F-14 is faster? It can't see it! It has half the range of an A-6, yet it can take off from anything from the aforementioned USS Detroit, up to the new Gerald Ford class aircraft carrier because it has VTOL ability, and again, the A-6 couldn't detect it, because it's the most undetectable airborne combatant ever produced. The F-4 might be able to out-turn it, yet the Phantom has no avionics able to identify the F-35 in a combat environment. And an F-16 might be able to dogfight it to death, but like the others I've mentioned, the F-35 can not be detected by any of their current publicly unclassified avionics.

The F-35 has no known combat adversary. It's a 5th generation aircraft, which, along with the F-22 Raptor, has no competition. I'm not saying it's not a waste of money. The budget overruns are a disaster. Yet, what would you rather have? The best available aircraft money can buy compared to the expected adversary? Or, 1960's/1970's era tech that both Russia and China have an answer for?

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

All I have to say about that article can be summarized by talking about the above quote i pulled. An F-14 Tomcat could not detect it, and the F-35 would thereby destroy it while going unseen. Who cares if the F-14 is faster? It can't see it! It has half the range of an A-6, yet it can take off from anything from the aforementioned USS Detroit, up to the new Gerald Ford class aircraft carrier because it has VTOL ability, and again, the A-6 couldn't detect it, because it's the most undetectable airborne combatant ever produced. The F-4 might be able to out-turn it, yet the Phantom has no avionics able to identify the F-35 in a combat environment. And an F-16 might be able to dogfight it to death, but like the others I've mentioned, the F-35 can not be detected by any of their current publicly unclassified avionics.

The F-35 has no known combat adversary. It's a 5th generation aircraft, which, along with the F-22 Raptor, has no competition. I'm not saying it's not a waste of money. The budget overruns are a disaster. Yet, what would you rather have? The best available aircraft money can buy compared to the expected adversary? Or, 1960's/1970's era tech that both Russia and China have an answer for?

There were cheaper options that still surpassed those countries' technologies. This is just multiple state-sponsored graft.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

UZH Mediadesk - Monitoring volcanoes with ground-based atomic clocks

 

[evolver115]

There were cheaper options that still surpassed those countries' technologies. This is just multiple state-sponsored graft.

I agree, but the same can be said for almost all defense spending. It's one big sham.

The F-35 was designed to replace the United States military F-16, A-10, F-18 and AV-8 tactical fighter and attack aircraft. One aircraft that is capable of doing all of that was guaranteed not to be cheap. It will also be the first aircraft ever made by the US that will equip all four branches of the military.

 

[forty_three]

They're a cool $400 shmill per ship, too. Our tax dollars, hard at work.. lol

So half of what Illytch wants to spend on a new arena in Detroit?

 

[forty_three]

Lightning strike survivor wins lottery, beats 1 in 2.6 trillion odds | fox8.com

Winning the lottery? That's as rare as being hit by lightning.

Guy: Meh, it hurts less.

 

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Nice work Sam

Canadian lifeguard rescues four from drowning while on vacation in Indonesia | Good News - Yahoo News Canada

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Lightning strike survivor wins lottery, beats 1 in 2.6 trillion odds | fox8.com

Winning the lottery? That's as rare as being hit by lightning.

Guy: Meh, it hurts less.

He plans to use his winnings to invest in a new flying pig farm

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

He plans to use his winnings to invest in a new flying pig farm

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Words cannot express how much I enjoyed this one backfiring.

 

[Comeds]

Words cannot express how much I enjoyed this one backfiring.

thats a terrible time to have projectile dysfunction.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

thats a terrible time to have projectile dysfunction.

With a thoughtful 4 minutes between the "like" alert going off and the "quote" alert going off, I knew this was going to be a Classic Comeds Kodiak moment.

 

[dare2be]

thats a terrible time to have projectile dysfunction.

Not a good time for a facial.

 

[Comeds]

Everybody likes to cool off during the summer:

 

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Everybody likes to cool off during the summer:

There's trouble bruin in that pool...

 

[Comeds]

There's trouble bruin in that pool...

I picture the owner coming home after a hard days work, jumping in the pool and then wondering what the terrible smell is.
Assuming the bear gets out of the pool without destroying it.
Also assuming wet bears stink, I can't help thinking they would.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

I picture the owner coming home after a hard days work, jumping in the pool and then wondering what the terrible smell is.
Assuming the bear gets out of the pool without destroying it.
Also assuming wet bears stink, I can't help thinking they would.

Grizzly bears often smell REALLY bad. I worked in a part of the Yukon where they're everywhere and at times you can smell them coming, literally.

 

[Comeds]

Grizzly bears often smell REALLY bad. I worked in a part of the Yukon where they're everywhere and at times you can smell them coming, literally.

That's cool, I would have thought so. That's a pretty thick fur they have that I am sure picks up and holds all kinds of smells. I think I once learned bears were oily too. If so that can't help the smell.