There's only a tiny amount of steel, relatively speaking, in modern defence systems. If we were really arsed about national security, which we aren't, we should have government owned cloud … (View Post)

Absolutely no hats indoors in the US Navy unless required for a specific duty. It's the "cover off" rule. It's not about this pilot, although there is now no meaningful sanction t… (View Post)

Ramstein was a mid-air collision. If this shit had gone wrong, which it very easily could have for multiple reasons, then it would have been more like Skniliv 2002 when the UkrAF ploughed a Flanker i… (View Post)

I can't say I haven't done similar, but holy fuck, time and place... Hegseth's reaction is as fucking stupid and shit as you'd expect. He's undermining the safety culture and… (View Post)

It's a bit more nuanced than that. Fedorov launched a pre-emptive strike on Sirs'kiy to get him removed and hang the blame for Konstantinovka on him. He missed his shot, Sirs'kiy fired… (View Post)