Posted on 02/04/2014 6:53:21 PM PST by blam
When the Muslim hoards attack, we won’t even use them.
I’m not sure I understand the outrage here. Should the U.S. Not be working on new systems? So something went wrong. It’s awful. Nobody likes it. Do we quit?
They need to delay the bathrooms until near the end, we don’t know how many sexes will exist that far in the future.
>> Like the Romans, much of this stuff will fail when needed most.
Nonsense. It’ll work.
“The old army could have built a submarine for the navy in 6 months.”
In your muddled dreams. The army needed Chrysler to build tanks for them in WWII; they couldn’t build an anthill themselves!
“Forgive my ignorance, but why do the Ohio class submarines need replacing?”
We don’t know what the Chinese will have in 2030, but we can design in and build the best ideas WE have now in preparation and hope these are better than what the Chinese are building in for fielding in 2030.
Boy howdy.
People in the Army were still clinging to the horse cavalry even after the Germans made mincemeat of the Polish cavalry, the best in the world. After May, 1940, Marshall had Patton and a couple of other generals creating and armor division from scratch, IAC, the best example of a fighting machine jumping from drawing board to combat was the B-29, which took about three years with a lot of accidents along the way. What a machine.
OH, my, I love that video!
That was funny. Thanks!
Must have gotten the idea from the 80s GI Joe comic. In the comic book, the Jane looked like an old freighter but had a bunch of extras. Kind of like a Q ship.
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