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The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon

by | Jul 8, 2024 |

The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...

The Yemeni Mouse That Roared

by | Jun 21, 2024 |

The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...

Fat Amy Can’t Catch a Break

by | Jun 14, 2024 |

Fat Amy is a nickname for the F35 Lightning II. As long as an F16 and comparable in weight to a heavy class F15, the F35 isn't necessarily a light aircraft. Flying cost per hour may have been reduced to $34,000 per hour. Maybe. The mission capable rate, the percentage...

Four Star Admiral Slams Body Parts in the Cash Register

by | May 31, 2024 |

ADM Robert Burke arrested for corruption. This is on the heels of the Fat Leonard scandal. This is the tip of the iceberg in corruption. And remember this four star admiral retired with an estimated annual pension of approx 200k. 200,000 dollars a year. "Instead, the...

Wayback Snapshot: Japanese Invasion on American Soil

by | May 31, 2024 |

Yes, American soil has been invaded and occupied in the twentieth century. "In June 1942, the United States launched its first offensive in the Pacific, the Aleutian Campaign. From June 1942 to May 1943 Japan held the Island of Attu. The Battle of Attu took place May...

No Velocity Whatsoever: Hyper-Velocity Pipe-dreams

by | May 24, 2024 |

Since October 2021, it has either failed the flight test or scrubbed launches. Three years. The joint Army/Navy Dark Eagle Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, that despite the $8.3 billion in R&D invested in it have so far failed to successfully fire a single AUR, All...

The US Submarine Force is Sunk

by | May 23, 2024 |

When you look at the larger disaster of American arms and readiness, all the services are in the hazard of being mission ineffective. The US Navy surface fleet has been an unmitigated building debacle with the Little Crappy Ships, Zumwalt class and the USS Ford...

The Conscientious Objector As Hero

by | May 22, 2024 |

The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor granted in the US armed forces. Out of the 41 million who have served in the U.S. military, the Medal has been presented to only 3,517 service members (618 awarded posthumously) who went above and beyond the call of...

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Fat Amy is the Exemplar of the American Military Paper Tiger

The foreign purchase entanglement and moral hazard of overspending of the F35 is emblematic of making a two trillion dollar purchase over time where the money is simply wasted but driven to completion by the sheer momentum of the insane and imbecilic US military...

Treurgrond Watch Along

Treurgrond is an Afrikaans movie about farm murders in South Africa. Given the Piers Morgan Nick Fuentes discussion I thought appropriate to dig into a difficult topic. LET'S WATCH

Ajax Defeated by the Achilles Heel of English Bookkeeping

The British Army is in the same crisis mode as the Royal Navy; they're a post-imperial military basket case that could not fight an invasion of Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. They would be defeated. Across the board with the possible exception of the vaunted...

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