The problem with STB was not its aspect of starkness. The problem was that the informal maritime migrants were a very small percentage of total arrivals. The tories had a large majority and they coul… (View Post)

Modern air combat is so complex that it's about total system effectiveness rather than the raw numbers or strengths and weaknesses of any individual platform. It's no good having 150 Flanke… (View Post)

They have to pass through the territorial waters of either France or the UK to get through the Channel so there is the right of INNOCENT (not "free") passage according to UNCLOS Art. 19. As… (View Post)

The Med is a US duckpond and they choose to do exactly zero about civilian and military Russian shipping traffic that is doing fuck knows what in that region. (View Post)

It's the 200ER fuselage with the freighter wings/undercarriage and a 787 cockpit - hence Frankentanker. The whole is very much greater than the sum of its parts. I can see the appeal for the Pol… (View Post)