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They are especially helpful in winter when it's cold out.

That you flying?:)

Ahh okay. Interestingly, the chart though uses a tryzub (trident) roundel for Ukraine I see. I Googled and the Ukrainian roundel comes up as the one on the Blackhawk, so maybe they changed it?

I understand that, my point was why put the "bullseye" on the engine? Or if putting it there, why not like a Ukrainian flag shape? That dot just looks like a way of saying to the enemy, "Aim here."

This is about a year old, but since the U.S. won't sell any Black Hawks to Ukraine, they crowd funded via the Internet and went and bought a privately-owned one: It is an older model one, built in 1980, but then modified for civilian use by the private firm, and now owned by the Ukrainians...

Riding on abandoned lines or lines you get special permission to I think is fine, but restricted areas, that's not right.

Slight tangent, not meaning to derail the thread, but I am a huge fan of steam locomotives and have been reading a lot about them. Don't know if any of y'all are interested, but since some of you say you like trains, there is a hobby called Live Steam, basically scale model versions of real...

Yes, I forgot about the merger but that also was part of it. The great irony is that the best way to increase shareholder value and profits is to focus on the long term, i.e. make a solid product, and the profits will follow. But Wall Street gets addicted to its quarterly share price increases.

So Russia apparently is starting to get desperate for vehicles. They have been producing some improvised infantry fighting vehicles consisting of older tanks with the turrets missing for troops to ride in, and now apparently ordering thousands of these from a Chinese company: As you probably...

Yep, but this time the rocket didn't explode and made it to orbit. It spent an hour in orbit performing tests, such as refiring the rocket engines and opening the payload door. They then steered it into reentering the atmosphere but lost contact with it and so it likely burned up. But I'd say...

I watched a documentary that said basically the problem is that back during the 20th century, Boeing had very little to virtually no competition in the big passenger aircraft, so the culture was dominated by the engineers who would build world-class planes. But then as Airbus and other...

I saw one Tiktok video of the cabin where the girl says to a fellow passenger, "I thought we were gonna die," to which the other girl responds, "Me too." It probably happened so fast that it "would" have panicked a lot of people but then people quickly realized the plane wasn't crashing or...

🤡🤡🤡Yes yes, I should have been more clear. I thought if he meant for loosening, "by hand" he meant use a cheater or breaker bar, and then you could use the impact gun to quickly unscrew them.

I've always thought that autopilots right now ought to be a feature that only activates in the event of the driver falling asleep or becoming incapacitated, in which it would then say turn on the flashers and seek to pull the vehicle over or into a parking lot somewhere.

To be clear, when you say start the lug nuts by hand, you mean for loosening or tightening? (I am assuming you mean for when putting them back on, start them by hand).

So I guess the airline version of this happened:

I know Musk doesn't believe in LIDAR and thinks it is an idiotic technology to use. I have no idea regarding whether more successful systems use LIDAR.

Well y'all are pilots and some of you are airline pilots, so I thought maybe you might (shrugs)

So are the airlines just not doing maintenance the way they should?

He says the airfield is rarely used and is used frequently by snowmobilers, and that the Army should not have parked it on the trail. He also sued the airfield's owner for allowing both snowmobilers to use the airfield and the Army. Seems more like it would be the airfield owner's fault, I mean...

Not trying to "call him out," I honestly didn't mean it like that, so if that is how it seems, then I apologize. Was just curious is all. But I do see your point about a DM.

I see

I noticed he seems to have disappeared. Did something happen or he just decided to leave or if it is private, I understand that too.

So I went and watched that assassin scene and have to say I don't know what the complainers are referring to. It actually looked pretty realistic as it wasn't like she was fighting Hollywood-style; she wasn't really fighting at all, just killing with a blade.

The Harrier was and remains one of the coolest planes ever made:) If military vehicles could talk, I'll bet there'd be some jealousy going, the F-18s and F-35s not liking the Harrier getting to shoot down the enemy drones, and the Abrams tanks not liking that those lowly Bradley's got to go to...

I've heard some say they think they "woke-i-fied" it some, like having a maid try to assassinate the guy and she apparently has a bunch of special fighting skills that let her fight through multiple men when in the original series, it was a samurai or something? Also that the women are made much...

Pantsir S1 flips while turning: LINK

Oh okay, well good. I remember reading the Navy had to change their communications after that because Walker had allowed them to be compromised by the Soviets.

Remember that due to the John Walker spy ring, the Soviets could read the Navy's secret communications and knew the locations of all the U.S. submarines until Walker was finally found out.

A major problem for China as well is since coming to power, Xi has cracked down heavily on both civil society (no talk of democratic government allowed, which used to be quite common on Chinese social media apparently), no visiting Taiwan to witness their elections (something that used to be...

Oh okay. I was trying to inject a little humor/lightheartedness into the discussion.

I don't follow?

Wouldn't that be redundant? I mean if it's a train wreck, doesn't that imply it is already derailed? :) Also this is kind of ironic to me as I was just reading about an actual derailment, the Montparnasse train derailment of 1895. Interestingly, the locomotive itself suffered very little actual...

The problem is that as you basically said earlier, "significantly" is arbitrary. What one side says is significantly raising taxes or cutting spending, the other side will argue is not.

Of course what constitutes excessive taxation can be vague, but that doesn't mean it isn't a real thing. And yes your link says that, but that is one organization. There are other organizations that will claim the opposite. They all claim they're "non-partisan" which is usually nonsense.

That's why I said excessively, not just in general. Like if we raise the top individual income tax to 43%, that might not hurt anything. But if we raise it up to 95%, that likely would be very bad. As for research, it kinda depends on who you ask and can get into some really nitty-gritty debate...

What makes you think increasing taxes or decreasing spending will inhibit growth? Also that is kind of contradictory, no? "We are spending way too much, it is unsustainable." "We cannot reduce spending as it will hurt growth." Excessively raising taxes will harm growth, but where that limit is...

Could they put cameras in all directions like these new luxury SUVs have, where you can look left, right, front, rear, etc...?

The debt is very much an issue I'd say and remember there is a difference between creating money versus creating wealth. That said, I do not see the debt as a bomb about to detonate.

A few things about our debt: 1) The cost to service the debt versus our GDP ratio isn't so much the issue as the cost to service the debt versus the revenues to the Treasury. One of the criteria used in grading a nation's bonds is how much of the money going to the government must be spent on...

Netflix has a new series out called WWII: From the Frontlines." It doesnt seem to present anything new from a historical perspective but holy crap it has some really spectacularly restored combat footage, among the best ever I think, from the war. I have only watched one episode but there is...

People can be highly irrational, but also very rational within different worldviews which can lead to completely different conclusions being drawn. For example, when the Space Shuttle was first proposed and its supposed high launch cadence was announced, many in the U.S. recognized this was...

You three stop or I'll turn this thread around and go right home.

Yes, my point was that just because a nation may not seem able to take care of a simple need doesn't mean that they do not still have serious technical capability for weapons production.

Much/most of it was crappy, but it was still capable of destroying Western equipment, that is why we had to develop systems like the Apache and the Abrams, and their nuclear missiles were capable of reaching us. Remember also the old cliche born out by history: Never Underestimate Your Opponent

Electrical power generation in North Korea has improved from what it used to be. Multiple cities have a nightlife now. Limited private enterprise is also permitted. Part of this is due to help from China. I don't know how electrical generation capability relates to nuclear weapon capability in...

With the Germans in WWII, it was more than hope IMO. They also saw themselves as facing down the great "evil" of global Jewry. There was a major ideological component to the war with the Nazi ideology. They also believed they could steam roll the Soviets.

Couldn't it be said that Russia's invading Ukraine was very rational given Putin's thinking they would be a pushover?