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I thought this sort of stuff wasn't allowed here on PD. We have a "12 Years old boy becomes Muslim" thread and now this. What if there were threads started to showcase "Muslim boy becomes Christian" or "Islam can be dangerous?" How about we leave these sorts of subjects to religion forums...

It's odd... all the "free love" hippie types say "It's OK to show sexual scenes on TV. It's natural, it's human. Don't worry about your kids seeing healthy sexual activity. What we should be horribly concerned about is VIOLENCE on TV." The reality is that kids see sex scenes, get all hot &...

Reminds me of the various DOLPHIN submarines they have nowadays... If I lived on the ocean and had enough $$... man it'd be fun! ;)

As opposed to the hateful warmongering allied marching songs? I have no problem with German marching music, but let's not sugar-coat what Nazi Germany was...

I refuse to get involved with the Pakistan-India tensions, but simply will repeat that regardless of the situation and lack of collateral, crossing the nuclear threshhold with small tactical weapons will invariably lead to counter-value use of strategic weapons. NATO and Warsaw Pact doctrine...

Very expensive, but these would be great for adventure-seekers and people who love jet fighters. I'd suggest anyone who isn't completely armored against motion sickness and/or claustrophobia avoid them, or you'd be barfing on the take-off roll. The "barf rate" for incentive rides in fighters...

I do have to comment and hopefully correct/clarify this - the classic definition we used for "excellent situational awareness" isn't knowledge of where the threat is before engagement, it is the ability to keep track of, and direct, all pertinent entities in an immensely fluid and...

Nationalism aside, the article has made some very good and accurate points, IMO, regarding what makes a fighter force effective or not. ---------- Post added at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 AM ---------- Mastankhan is absolutely correct... technology can turn a rank noob into...

One other way to look at it... the tension between Pakistan and India is NOT greater than that which existed between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The threat of strategic nuclear retaliation prevented a conventional war in Europe for 40 years. That cannot be proven, but I think it is an opinion...

We can ignore it for the discussion, but the importance of the nuclear threshhold in politics and war is enormous! Can tactical nukes win a battle that would otherwise be lost? Possibly, yes. But one needs to consider what will happen to your own troops in the area. Nukes are horribly...

Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was fabricated? Oh Reaallly?

There have been odd pairings like this before... how about a lion suckling an antelope? It's been seen. Scientists have documented all sorts of animal weirdness! Or the LIGER... lion mates with tiger. These things are ENORMOUS!

They MUST come simultaneously, or it becomes irrelevent. If given responsibility, like "You are in charge of the electrical power for the whole province", then by definition, you must also be given the keys to do the job. Hiring, firing, giving orders that must be followed. And no one is...

NATO Europe in the 1980's had a thing called "free flight", which was a form of training that was superb. Essentially, if you were airborne, you could be attacked (or attack yourself) any NATO aircraft you encounter. So on any given day, you could get jumped by Canadian F-18's, Luftwaffe...

Pfpilot, of course there were horrible abuses in the colonial era. I'm not attempting to sugar-coat it. But let's stick with the topic, the Falklands, and the modern era. Again, Barbados: "We want to be independent from GB" Britan's reply, "OK, you got it." The Falklands was and is very...

Much appreciated Desert Fox, thank you. There aren't too many Pearl Harbor survivors left... they are all in their 90's. What was amazing was that most of those battleships seen ablaze or sunk were re-floated in a heroic effort, and saw combat during WW2.

I flew many missions over West Germany during the Cold War. We were warned about East German attempts to lure NATO aircraft. There is a device called a TACAN that is a military equivalent of a VOR... a radio navigation aid. The East Germans replicated more than one, and occasionally they...

Lots of the cold war stuff is still classified, but I can say safely that the death tally on both sides was in the hundreds, if not thousands.It included aircraft, ships, subs, and ground troops. Post WW2 Germany, NATO and Warsaw Pact forces often engaged each other in small fights, and there...

Have you noticed that munitions these days, conventional munitions, are getting smaller? Many nations are coming out with miniaturized guided weapons like missiles that are a meter long, and carry just a small warhead. The reason is because delivery accuracy has improved due to the digital...