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I don't know if you have ever been to South Asia, but the roads are truly terrible. There are no 18 wheelers as exist in US, Canada, or Australia. 40 ton trucks would over time destroy alot of bridges in Pakistan. Also, I am an engineer, and I can assure you that moments created by point loads...

The problems with plebiscite have already been discussed. First, all interested parties have to agree to its outcome for it to actually matter. Probably not going to happen. Second, lets assume the Indians agree. Most people in India probably don't want to be occupying the territory in the first...

Contrary to what some people in Europe would like to believe, the US is the world's oldest existing democracy. As such, there is some accumulated knowledge about how to deal with the public. In the US, policy is sold to the public in much the same fashion that Johnson and Johnson sells soap...

Which missiles precisely does Pakistan intend to equip the F-16 MLU's with? [EDIT] Oops, looking around I see it is the AIM 120. Nice, although very expensive, choice.

Does pretty much everyone in the Industry use the NIJ standards, or do they use other ratings systems in say..Europe for example?

One more point was - "highway of death". As most of the iraqi columns were on retreat just at the onset of air war, the allied air force had field day in mauling the best regiments on the highway to basra Since you insist: frontline: the gulf war | PBS Where you will find recounting from...

Yes and no. Combat is the best testing possible. It is still situational. Operational live fire testing of actual specimens in "Field Like" conditions might very well be a better indicator of success than actual combat in a situation that is guaranteed not to be repeatable, along with entirely...

I just have to say, when people on this board are enraged by some Israeli Military action, do they all spout such racist drivel? There is no way to defend the mentality that is expressed on those T-shirts, but it is no more or less defensible than Palestines who rejoice after hearing of a bus or...

Back to the M1. Comparisons to the Iraq war are probably not very applicable. Hellfire obviously had not a clue what was going on with "The highway of Death", and I will attribute that to youth and not actually being there. Also, some advice, don't argue the facts of the situation with someone...

It certainly keeps that military-industrial complex chugging along.... But is it really worth the huge costs? Let the politicians decide I suppose...

Eh, probably not anytime soon. I know a researcher working on electric lasers doing various clever things with gas lensing. Currently, he can get a 50 KW laser out of >400 KW of energy. You can't just pack a battery that large around with you. Now, jet engines on a 747 can theoretically produce...

Alot of the success of delta wings can be attributed to the fact that they are relatively cheaper to create and maintain compared to say the cropped delta wing of the f-16 for example. Because of the way shock waves form, they also perform better at high altitudes in supersonic flight. See...

Who ends up as the aggresor is determined by who ends up writing the history books. The whole point of that post is that it is a waste of time to try and moralize any of this. The whole idea of a war is that: "Based on faith, group A's (My group) rights and values are more important than...

Do we dare open this can of worms...? The problem is what precisely you are talking about. If you know anything about compressible supersonic flow, you know that things behave...oddly after the speed of sound. So are we talking about M <1 or > 1? Are we talking about high bypass turbofans, or...

^^^ Of course, the chain of command is the chain of command. Anything that happens in platoon is in the end the responsibility of that 2nd Lt. He will be relived of command if he screws up often enough, or simply pushes his decisions off on the platoon Sgt. He is expect to exercise all the...

So this thread has gotten fairly philosophical, and I'll keep the tone. To all Trolls: The problem with war is not necessarily that people die, and certainly not that warriors die. All of this is to be expected. What makes it so painful is that so much is broken that should be whole. Children...

Sure. Does the physical fitness of an NCO in the PA play a significant role in the chances for his promotion? How precisely is promotion handled in the enlisted ranks? I assume that there is some type of cyclical performance review? Yearly, bi-annually?

Perhaps, maybe S-2 can provide more details. The long and short of it is that the US military is enormous when compared to any of the commonwealth nations. The Australian Defense forces have 53,167 active personnel according to Wikipedia, while the US military has 1,444,553 active personnel...

To Ratus Ratus: I don't know anything about the specific structure of the commonwealth military really, just that a rank called "Warrant Officer" existed as well. Thanks for all of that info. As for the comparison of officers, that gets tricky. There are many paths to commissioning in the...