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I have seen several studies regarding US opinion on Islam, and it mostly neutral. There is a great deal of contempt for the cultures of the middle east (Corruption, treatment of women, living off US oil money, yada, yada) ,and racial fears regarding "Arab looking" people. However, if you...

Well I'll be, that the darnedest thing I heard since we found out them there Russian's were incompetent. Now wuldayn't ya know it, da ****'s got themselves some new-fangled gioggy-ramo's too! We's gots to be stealing those, cause you know you never can trust brown folk with something...

Of course, but the Apache is an expensive toy, and also has significantly increased maintenance costs compared to the AH-1. Do you suppose there is a reason the USMC stuck with the AH-1W over the Apache? Alot of it was the fact that they lobbied pretty hard for the W variant over the G (Using...

Hmm, the Pentagon, along with the US Intelligence apparatus is at the moment reasonably sure the Pakistan's nuclear weapons are no more a threat to the US than Russia's, and seems to be of the opinion "Its not the best, but what can you do?" Until the CIA, NSA, FBI, DOD intelligence (or...

Eh, direct interpolation of population percentages simply does not work. It does not even work when talking about fish or rabbits, let alone humans. Higher fertility rates among Catholics should have made the US predominantly Catholic long ago. Didn't happen. The Catholic's had kids, they had...

These are admittedly isolated cases, but once you start allowing exceptions to the rules, the rules have a way of becoming not so rule like after all. Anyway, rant over.

Another thing. In the US military (Specifically Naval Aviation, I am pretty fuzzy on USAF), once your career path is set "Jets, Props, Helos" it is largely a function of open slots.Their are exceptions to the rule (Read: B-2, F-22, or test pilots, which require massive number of hours in...

I am aware that motorized transport statistically speaking is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US military these days, but I think you will agree "as dangerous as infantry" != "same requirements as infantry", but I will leave it there. You I think, have made my point for me in a slanty...

I think you are missing my point here. I am not "Shitting" on these ladies. I am sure they are good at whatever there specialization was. Their lack of physical fitness or proficiency on the one-way range says next to nothing about their bravery or willingness to close with and kill the enemy...

My reference point is standard light infantry PT and weapons training. This includes the US army, USMC, royal marines, Bundeswehr, etc . Something tells me some of those women are not doing 10 pull ups, 50 push-ups, running 3 miles in under 23 minutes, or scoring 200/250 -Sharpshooter- whatever...

To get back on something remotely on topic. I watched the trailer for that film, and cringed when I saw how out of shape some of those women were. I cringed again when I saw the clip of a female soldier using a m68 aimpoint without taking the cap off... :hitwall: The fact that a first world...

Class rank is determined by physical fitness, classroom test scores, and flight evaluation. Early on, the emphasis is on the first two, later in training (When officers actually start getting significant time in the cockpit), the emphasis is on flight performance.

The USAF does not fly f-18's, those are flown by USN and USMC pilots. I am not really familiar with the USAF policies, so I will not comment. In the USMC and USN, the policy works something like this. When a prospective officer starts the commissioning process, he signs a contract for a...

The F-16IN certainly won't make the datalink systems for all the various aircraft India has acquired over the years talk to each other... All that data will have to relayed by voice from AWACS, so no, it can't do most of the things the comment implied. As for the F-18SH, I have no idea...

For reference, the most hours anyone has spent flying the F-16 is about 6,000. Most hours spent flying the F-16 - Air Force pilot sets world record Here is a comprehensive list of hours from various air forces: http://www.f-16.net/f-16_pilots.html There are only about 550 pilots in the...

No, but they don't need em' .. they've got.... WALKER, Texas Ranger!! "Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life there." :smokin:

Well this is a surprise! I'm in Areospace (Nothing secret, sorry) , and all I have heard from the people in the UCAV business (Which again, ain't much because of NDA's) is that the Air Force and Navy are extremely reluctant to pursue any significant technological advancement in the UCAV...

Blain2, I'm sorry, but I have read numerous posts to the effect of "Its complicated, we can't just go in there and get them" which spoke in depth of the various cultural and religious aspects of using force against your own people. You spoke of the percentage of PA soldiers who are pashtun, lack...

I don't think that anyone was ever in the business of denying that the US gave guns to Islamic radicals, some of whom eventually became part of the Taliban. The disagreement comes in as to if the US was actually in the business of "Creating" the Taliban. Is there any evidence that the US...

Meh, air superiority, air dominance, call it what you will, does change what an aircraft is or is not. I am a native English speaker and the terms have pretty much the exact connotation as far as I can tell. Dominance of an air battlefield is contingent on the circumstances, and what forces...