Bob Hoover, known for his engine off aerobatics and super low flying

Beermat- As to your original question as to why people in the US accuse strong government bureaucracy to being “socialist” goes way back. Both Communism and much lesser so Socialism are bad words in the US and refer to anti-capitalism. In the 1950s we had McCarthyism where the government had free reign to ruin anyone who was found to be a communist sympathizer and was considered a subversive trying to break the capitalist system. In europe both the communist and socialist parties are very common and totally accepted in wealthy countries like Germany, France, Sweden, etc, whereas they could NEVER be tolerated in the US. Right now presidential candidate Bernie Sanders refers to himself as socialist, but this is more democratic socialist as exists in the aforementioned european countries where socialism merely guarantees public benefits and does not directly interfere with the capitalist economy. Another thing to keep in mind that in the in the beginning of the industrial revolution in the US there were huge monopolies formed in the railroad, banking and steel industries that held down true competition because only a few companies controlled the entire market and were able to control prices and hold down wages. So it wasn’t till Teddy Rosevelt came a long and busted up all the trusts that were functioning more like government run (some would say socialist) entities. Western nations today are no longer industrial economies in that there is no longer any manufacturing as that all has been shipped over seas. So socialism is no longer tied to labor rights like it once was. Socialism now means having more government regulation over banking and creating more social services like health benefits.

There should also be mention made of the US embracing Keynesian economics in the mid 90s which basically means a nations economy is driven by its power to lend money and that perpetual debt and inflation is a good thing. This goes against the Austrian school of economics that most people would consider to be more common sense that advocates that wealth is measured only by money earned and that borrowing money is detrimental personal wealth. Keynesian economics was full implemented by repealing Glass-Steagal regulations against banks ability to speculate on their customers holdings. For the most part Keynesian economics has worked very well and is credited to the very high economic wealth that the US and much of the world has enjoyed for the last 20 years. But this wealth has turned into a runaway train and now the Fed is committed to zero interest rates to keep this monetary flow moving through the banks. We have pulled out all the stops in banking regulations and putting them back now could cause disastrous and highly erratic behavior in the markets that are without precedent as no economy has ever gone this far into Keynesian economics. So we have created a beast and there seems no way to control it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

Greece is not the problem, the problem is that the way the EU is governed is deeply flawed. Whether Greece stays or leaves doesn’t fix anything. The EU is not a union, its nothing more than a free trade zone made up by independent states. There is no unified/democratic monetary policy, basically Germany controls everything. Germany is not a world banking power like the UK and US, Germany is an industrial power. In the culture of Germany debt is considered a bad and shameful thing. Germans have never had any scruples about being a predatorial lender and purposely lending with the intention of driving the borrower to default and then looting the debtor’s assets which is exactly what has happened with Greece. The fact that Greece has a corrupt government and that half the money lent was looted by Greek bureaucracy was completely overlooked and in fact played upon. This has allowed Germany and other european banks to go in and loot the Greek budget and take ownership of government owned land properties. EU bank bureaucrats had free reign to go in and plunder Greece for debt repayment. The fact that Greece defaulted on its debt had nothing to do with ability to pay but was rather the fault of lending banks mishandling the debt (I can’t remember the exact cause of the mismanagement, it had to do with trading speculation, Im too lazy to look up the details). For Greece their economy can not be sustained if they leave the EU but their economy will never recover if they stay in the EU and allow their banking system to keep getting plundered. There is no solution except to make the ECB a real central bank that is democratically run and has unified monetary law that treats all states equally.

edit: whoops!! Brexit, not Grexit. Well I have to learn to read better. Still my post covers topics that will affect Britain. The main point being that Britain has probably the largest banking industry in the world and is not going to let the bureaucratic buffoonery in Brussels ruin it.

I find it absolutely astonishing that this small country has so much military hardware. What threat in their region justifies it?

oil, its the richest country per capita in africa

the more AoA, the more drag, and the more deceleration, thrust aren’t up to the task,
altho most recent fighters was tested to 100 degree AoA or more,
that sort of deceleration is detrimental in battle.

like the test pilot in the F-35 vs F-16 concluded

The factor to take into consideration when talking AoA is wing loading. The F-16 has extremely poor high AoA maneuver ability but makes up for it by the fact that it has a high wing loading and high thrust to weight ratio which allows it superb sustained turn rates that do not bleed airspeed. An a/c like the F-22 eliminates drag that would normally be incurred by its low wing loading by having barn door sized tail surfaces which give high AoA ability without bleeding airspeed.

some gnarly crosswind takeoff and landings