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I didn't think the S-tank could/should fire while moving, I mean its just not built for it. whole point is it comes to a stop squats behind something and fires and then usually moves again once it thinks its seen (usually in reverse) if it is possible to fire while moving it would have to be at a great penalty also 1985 model would have original fire control systems I believe, pretty low tech relying primarily on the stable platform of being a non turret for its accuracy. Overall the tank received high marks upon initial production from other nations but never adopted by anybody else because it was suited almost purely as a defensive vehicle in the hopes of Sweden holding out till usa came to help or attrition for the soviets would be high enough that they would sue for peace similar to fins in ww2.

Interesting article sent to me by a friend, this is a 1st generation device imagine what it could be used for with a few upgrades http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/reviews/e...pod-touch-ipad/

Great picture, nice looking day to be on the water.

I am not that familiar with cyberwarfare as it pertains to the pentagon but wouldn't this be a perfect usage of these guys. Unleash them on any servers that are providing storage for these idiots I know this doesn't eliminate the information once its out but if you do enough damage less people will make hosting services available to these guys in the future, the age old adage always applies money talks. Sometimes I miss the good old days of the CIA and their tactics during the cold war, they knew how to make people be gone.

Yah, serving in reserve units, some of which saw action during the 2008 war (suffered more than a few losses too). Plenty still in storage as well. About 3000 in reserve around one third of those in condition to be active in a week or less. Thats what I have read anyways,also they are supposed to be easier to maintain in the field and in forward bases better then the newer stuff so that may be why they got them there. Besides unless we were going to ship Georgia a butt load of anti tank missiles t-62 are more then enough to roll down the road again and put things "back in order".

I guess I was thinking of the German show that usually has an 109 and 262, just figured they would travel up to that one also. Saw your other post, the vulcans are pretty cool and since they were in the old school bond movies surprisingly a lot of people do recognize them. And of course their long ass flight down south in 82. If you mean the Me-109 (I don't recall seeing a 262), it was one of the Spanish examples used in The Battle of Britain.

Do you know if the ME-262 was a war vet or one of the ones they found in crates or built from parts after the war?

congrats to them, and yes octopus is quite tasty.

Also might as well get your money's worth as much as these things cost to build and then retrofit + crew costs they arent that much cheaper to run on dock then sailing around keeping people on their toes.

By MARK THOMPSON / WASHINGTON Mark Thompson / Washington – 24 mins ago If China's satellites and spies were working properly, there would have been a flood of unsettling intelligence flowing into the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese navy last week. A new class of U.S. superweapon had suddenly surfaced nearby. It was an Ohio-class submarine, which for decades carried only nuclear missiles targeted against the Soviet Union, and then Russia. But this one was different: for nearly three years, the U.S. Navy has been dispatching modified "boomers" to who knows where (they do travel underwater, after all). Four of the 18 ballistic-missile subs no longer carry nuclear-tipped Trident missiles. Instead, they hold up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles each, capable of hitting anything within 1,000 miles with non-nuclear warheads. Their capability makes watching these particular submarines especially interesting. The 14 Trident-carrying subs are useful in the unlikely event of a nuclear Armageddon, and Russia remains their prime target. But the Tomahawk-outfitted quartet carries a weapon that the U.S. military has used repeatedly against targets in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Sudan. (See pictures of the U.S. military in the Pacific.) That's why alarm bells would have sounded in Beijing on June 28 when the Tomahawk-laden 560-ft. U.S.S. Ohio popped up in the Philippines' Subic Bay. More alarms were likely sounded when the U.S.S. Michigan arrived in Pusan, South Korea, on the same day. And the Klaxons would have maxed out as the U.S.S. Florida surfaced, also on the same day, at the joint U.S.-British naval base on Diego Garcia, a flyspeck of an island in the Indian Ocean. In all, the Chinese military awoke to find as many as 462 new Tomahawks deployed by the U.S. in its neighborhood. "There's been a decision to bolster our forces in the Pacific," says Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "There is no doubt that China will stand up and take notice." U.S. officials deny that any message is being directed at Beijing, saying the Tomahawk triple play was a coincidence. But they did make sure that news of the deployments appeared in the Hong Kong–based South China Morning Post - on July 4, no less. The Chinese took notice quietly. "At present, common aspirations of countries in the Asian and Pacific regions are seeking for peace, stability and regional security," Wang Baodong, spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said on Wednesday. "We hope the relevant U.S. military activities will serve for the regional peace, stability and security, and not the contrary." (See pictures of the most expensive military planes.) Last month, the Navy announced that all four of the Tomahawk Tridents were operationally deployed away from their home ports for the first time. Each vessel packs "the firepower of multiple surface ships," says Captain Tracy Howard of Submarine Squadron 16 in Kings Bay, Ga., and can "respond to diverse threats on short notice." The move forms part of a policy by the U.S. government to shift firepower from the Atlantic to the Pacific theater, which Washington sees as the military focus of the 21st century. Reduced tensions since the end of the Cold War have seen the U.S. scale back its deployment of nuclear weapons, allowing the Navy to reduce its Trident fleet from 18 to 14. (Why 14 subs, as well as bombers and land-based missiles carrying nuclear weapons, are still required to deal with the Russian threat is a topic for another day.) (See "Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield: The Winners and Losers.") Sure, the Navy could have retired the four additional subs and saved the Pentagon some money, but that's not how bureaucracies operate. Instead, it spent about $4 billion replacing the Tridents with Tomahawks and making room for 60 special-ops troops to live aboard each sub and operate stealthily around the globe. "We're there for weeks, we have the situational awareness of being there, of being part of the environment," Navy Rear Admiral Mark Kenny explained after the first Tomahawk Trident set sail in 2008. "We can detect, classify and locate targets and, if need be, hit them from the same platform."(Comment on this story.) The submarines aren't the only new potential issue of concern for the Chinese. Two major military exercises involving the U.S. and its allies in the region are now under way. More than three dozen naval ships and subs began participating in the "Rim of the Pacific" war games off Hawaii on Wednesday. Some 20,000 personnel from 14 nations are involved in the biennial exercise, which includes missile drills and the sinking of three abandoned vessels playing the role of enemy ships. Nations joining the U.S. in what is billed as the world's largest-ever naval war game are Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Peru, Singapore and Thailand. Closer to China, CARAT 2010 - for Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training - just got under way off Singapore. The operation involves 17,000 personnel and 73 ships from the U.S., Singapore, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. (See "Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations.") China is absent from both exercises, and that's no oversight. Many nations in the eastern Pacific, including Australia, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and Vietnam, have been encouraging the U.S. to push back against what they see as China's increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea. And the U.S. military remains concerned over China's growing missile force - now more than 1,000 - near the Taiwan Strait. The Tomahawks' arrival "is part of a larger effort to bolster our capabilities in the region," Glaser says. "It sends a signal that nobody should rule out our determination to be the balancer in the region that many countries there want us to be." No doubt Beijing got the signal.

These have really great night and all weather capabilities, so how hard is it to strap a dumb gravity nuke to one of these you think?

The country of my birth is Portugal. Portugal is and probably always will be All show no Go. But its nice too see so many of the favorites bite the dust one by one so early on. Netherlands at this point would be a cool pick since they haven't ever won one, neither has Spain but I don't like them much (see sentence #1 for explanation)

"The Type 45 is not only a world class anti-air warfare destroyer. It will also act as a multi-role, general-purpose platform" Without putting the harpoon boxes on it the only anti surface weapons are a 4" gun and a couple of sea skua missiles from its lynx heli. So I don't know about it claiming to be a multi-role and its per unit cost is pretty high in comparison to the burks considering its somewhat similar missions.

Depends on what part of the Regime you think would change would the president be gone probably would some of the mullahs be removed maybe will the supreme leader change extremely doubtful lets not forget he controls the revolutionary guard and all the militias. Tehran may end up in flames but a majority would see an attack by the west and only harden their beliefs and many on the fence would go the normal rout of nationalism. Remember this is if the US were to attack first.

It would be interesting (meaning very very bad) if we attacked Iran with air and sea assets and they decided that since Iraq and Afghanistan are "proxys" of the united states that it would be ok to bring to bear their largest military group and invade one or both with ground forces.... This is one of the major reasons why I think militarily our hands may be tied for a while.

Sorry I miss counted it was only 20 externals...

Watched this the other day it was pretty cool. Tactics were not very detailed but the computer animation and stuff made it entertaining. Had a few hypothetical platforms that will probably never see light of day including a B-1R, B1-B with 32 external amraams and same engines as a F-22 giving it supercruise.

I wonder how many US soldiers would have to be killed by a DPRK nuke for us to use one on them??? I honestly don't think we would do it if they somehow managed to get one airborne and just hit a random place in ROK and killed a few thousand Koreans, and by not retaliating what kind of precedence would it set? Its like the Taiwan question, would we really go to war with our biggest creditor nation and biggest supplier for walmart over Taiwan?

I knew there was another F8 somewhere but could not remember, good find. Yeah the talons/tigers/sharks seem to be the fighter by a million names and variations, especially the export versions. I guess similar to what the F-16 is more known for now since at one time they did compete to be "the" export fighter. F-5's seem to be the poor mans f-16, always funny also is in how many 80's/90's movies it was used as the bad guy plane.

A-7 Corsair II, F-5 Tiger II,AC-130 Spooky II, MC-130H Combat Talon II, T-6a Texan II, Only III and IV I can think of are transport Globemaster and and the Gulfstreams. Forgot some rebuilds are also II's the A-4's Skyhawks II and Harrier II's, EP-3E Aries II

I am no lover of the pirates but I would think they rather be shot to death by a guy defending his ship then slowly die or get eaten by sharks after their little dingy gets sunk by one of these.

Wow IL-38's with these, they may as well mount them to the maritime bears also these things will be able to stay on station forever.

Maybe I was thinking ahead. I thought that the Bush had finally approved it but I can see from doing a simple google search that it didn't get finalized. But is it even possible to integrate a land system into the aegis?

Good read. For those of you more knowing then me-with their new aegis destroyers is there someway to integrate with land systems, namely the more advanced patriots, for a one brain control system? Considering there destroyers would probably stay close to home this would be a great help.

The poor thing, tired of being cooped up all these years just wanted to show off a little. From the pictures the pilot probably pooped himself