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Drone swarms could certainly take out subsystems like radar/sensor suites, and perhaps even EMALS launchers, but you're not sinking a USN CVN with a few hundred hand-grenades strapped to drones. Seaborne drones carry much more explosive, but again, I doubt they have the armor-piercing...

The USMC certainly are. At one point they were going to train my son to pilot drones. USMC uses them both offensively and defensively. They're paying close attention to what's going on in the war.

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SYDNEY, May 12 (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine pilot fighting extradition from Australia on U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, unknowingly worked with a Chinese hacker, his lawyer said. Daniel Duggan, 55, a naturalised Australian citizen, feared...

I've always assumed that zoom was not just climbing, but climbing out of a dive to optimize the retention of speed gained in the dive.

My words were about Greg's approach. @drgondog didn't engage in ad-homs or begging the question. I don't know the technical stuff about P-47 range beyond generalities, but I damned sure know my way around debate. Bill could've laid or made points better, but with a couple of exceptions he was...

Long live the Herc. Rode in a few in the early 90s, loud but usable.

I'm not a fan of how he talks to his viewers. I do watch his vids and try to glom some stuff.

"Dude" is something I'd throw down with anyone, President or peasant. [/Spicoli]

I read the article in AF Times but it had no detail, thanks for the info.

I don't like his "greetings" intro. It's only slightly less-pretentious than "salutations". I bet he doesn't talk to his passengers like that. What the hell is wrong with a "hey guys" or "hiyas"? C'mon, man. What is this, Buckingham Palace?

My comment on his Youtube thread, after finding the time to watch it: I think both had points made well, but I also think that Greg spent a lot of time appealing to the "Bomber Mafia" when that was actually the point he was trying to make, whereas Bill made many good technical points that are...

Related to the topic: FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — Forced to do more with less and learning from the war in Ukraine, U.S. special operations commanders are juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five...

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