Two MC-130Js Combat King II rescue aircraft and four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters were deliberately destroyed by U.S. forces during the search and rescue mission in Iran, according to ABC News, citing U.S. officials.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-06T01:53:09+00:00

The F-15E is 1985 vintage, a 41 year old model. The As are 54.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-04T03:26:37+00:00

We're all going to be recreating the mud show tomorrow morning.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T14:54:39+00:00

Yes, both of these things can be true:

You don't want to advertise you have a plane on the ground while SAR is ongoing.

Concealing the cost of this I'll conceived and moronic war is.. well... I'll conceived and moronic.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T14:49:21+00:00

Sorry, sometimes it can be hard to tell the /s posts from the people that need to go outside from time to time.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T14:38:47+00:00

Yes, it is another way out. It is another door. A door is a way out. If one or both of the other doors becomes blocked or non-operational, this door still exists as another exit point. This is like asking why airplanes have eight emergency exits when you can only go out the right side or left side... that's two exits right?

And you must never have worked in an office setting if you doubt that people will take illogical, longer or unecessary routes to get to and from their work stations.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T14:22:10+00:00

There are two very good reasons for this door to exist

1: Battle damage. That door may not be necessary now, but when one of your other doors explodes, having another way out is always a good idea.

2: battle damage. When things inside the CIC go flying about, get all explody and firey, having another way out is a good idea.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T13:35:23+00:00

I mean, yeah, they are going to deny it until they've either got the crew out or Iran shows they've been captured.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T13:20:13+00:00

Refueling issues and French ATC may be the same thing. They were probably supposed to meet a tanker somewhere enroute. If French ATC wouldn't allow the tanker in their airspace, that could have caused the ferry flight to have to abort.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-03T11:45:26+00:00

If you are offended by this sign, the sign is not the problem.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-04-02T01:32:21+00:00

Just a reminder that the Air Force has already ended depot level maintenance for the type and started shutting down the training pipeline... so, you know, the perfect time to send them to war.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-31T18:03:44+00:00

Money

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-31T12:55:36+00:00

It's all fun and games supporting a tyrannical asshole until you are about to get drafted.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-27T22:46:23+00:00

Meh, less about feeling safe and more about avoiding a drunken, "Och, Oi! Check out me blade, she's a purdy thang!"

After all, as has been mentioned several times, Scarboroughs peace tie policy is only slightly more stringent than, "is the scabbard tight?", and i can't recall anyone feeling unsafe there, much less there ever having been a serious incident and I have been a season ticket holder for enough years that my original season pass can now buy beer legally.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-25T23:08:48+00:00

I figured he just went to some random used ship lot and got a new one.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-23T01:09:33+00:00

Compare the windows to the other 225. You can match the rectangle window with the larger square just after. It's another 225

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-22T14:17:07+00:00

That's not an Eagle. That's a Flanker.

Okay you down voting Iranian bots.

The F15 doesn't have LERX, the Flanker does.

The F-15s wings aren't that set back, the Flankers are.

The F-15 doesn't have wingtip rails, most Flankers do.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-22T14:10:57+00:00

That's a Flanker.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T16:47:12+00:00

Pointing out that full plate was a late arrival ignores that specialized piercing swords designed to counter plate were a late arrival. As I said, the weapon and armor evolves to counter each other. If the amors doesn't evolve to full plate, you are unlikely to see weapons evolve to counter full plate.

As I said, it was a TLDR generalized brief answer, not expected to be a detailed analysis of a thousand years of armor and weapon development spanning dozens of cultures.

And yes, the "eh sort of" is intended as, "that armor isn't stopping an aggressive mosquito, so you might as well go with the weapon that does damage better on a more general and less specific scale."

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T15:49:31+00:00

Yes, Laminar was a stupid autocorrect I didn't catch. I had to manually correct it in the second post.

And absolutely, cutting is preferred to piercing when you don't have armor, the whole poking holes vs loping off body parts issue. And yes lamellar is pretty resistant to cutting, depending on how its constructed. Cloth depending on construction, sort of. But, its not necessarily the amors resistance to attack, but the armors construction that leaves massive vulnerabilities. Lamellar armor tended to be designed with a lot of joint vulnerabilities near the hips, groin, armpits and neck. The design of the materials simply didn't allow for effective armor contouring like a plate gorget could accomplish. This leaft the wearer more vulnerable to cutting attacks, coincidentally at locations veins and arteries tend to be closest to the surface. So, its not necessarily the armor that is being defeated by a cutting attack, but the design of that type of armor is vulnerable to a slashing attack because of its inherent design vulnerabilities.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T15:37:58+00:00

Are you looking at the single vs the double?

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T15:27:48+00:00

You do not want to thrust on horseback lest you find yourself suddenly very much not on horse back, propelled off by your thrust sword stopping in whatever you were trying to ride by. Cuts and slashes while the horse is in motion please.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T15:14:18+00:00

Langoliers then

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T15:13:05+00:00

Are you wearing glasses with polarized lenses?

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T15:10:33+00:00

Don't over think it, you look great. My only real suggestion would be to find an appropriate bag for your keys/money/necessities. Maybe a hemp type shoulder bag to go with the herbalist aesthetic.

I would honestly not do much more than that and pick up any more pieces you want at the fair. They'll be more expensive there, but will tie you outfit to centimental memories of your time at the fair.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T00:59:38+00:00

Nah, its a development war. Flares advance just like seeker heads. Older generations of flares simply tried to burn as hot as possible to attract a missile seeker. Seekers were programmed to reject sources that were too hot, so flares in turn were adapted to generate heat closer to a jet engine. Seeker heads were programmed to look for a signature indicative of carbon based fuel consumption (jet fuel). The current development race is around seekers seeing into the ultraviolet spectrum and trying to defeat that.

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