That claim about the Boeing 707 is correct. But the designers had not in mind, that someone would accellerate an airliner of that size at high speed into it, without a single attempt to avoid a frontal crash. 😮
The airliners landing at the city airports are at 200 kt and some 1000 feet higher-up.

Another issue was that most of the protective asbestos had been removed that kept the structure from weakening from the heat generated by the burning fuel.

Sounds like EADS recognizes that without supports in the DOD willing & able to further alter the requirements to accomodate the KC-30, that it is unlikely to win because even it knows that the KC-30 is the wrong tanker for the USAF just as “everyone” did in 2002.

How can “everyone” have known “it was the wrong tanker…in 2002” when the blasted thing wasn’t even proposed and the Boeing deal was essentially a back room, done deal without a public RFP and bid?

The second from the left, is that one of the UK’s Invincible class CVs?

I would still like to hear from you two .. how do you solve the problem of two seperatist states in arms… when you bring Georgia into NATO??

Maybe I’m missing something, but South Ossetia Abkhazia (Abkhazan? 😉 ) are part of Georgia as viewed by the UN. Isn’t this similar to the Basque separatists, albeit with more weapons and foreign (Russian) support?

I didn’t know the US military was targeting Canadians in the US as of late. :rolleyes:

It makes as much sense as Russia granting citizenship to Georgian citizens so they have a perceived reason to invade.

Huh?

I found this comment on a blog posted on the Georgia Invades thread and was somewhat surprised by it.

“Likely also under way towards the Persian Gulf is the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) and its expeditionary strike group, the UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal (R07) carrier battle group, assorted French naval assets including the nuclear hunter-killer submarine Amethyste and French Naval Rafale fighter jets on-board the USS Theodore Roosevelt. These ships took part in the just completed Operation Brimstone.”

http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-us-naval-armada-heads-for-iran.html

I knew we were cross decking 12F’s Rafales for qualifications, but I wasn’t aware that we were going to take them on an operational deployment.

Or is this more along the lines of the blogger not really knowing what’s going on?

Was this Red Flag? The map they showed indicated it happened in Phoenix, AZ, not outside of Las Vegas at Nellis.

Thanks!

Kurt

Regarding whether the warhead of the Exocet that hit HMS Sheffield exploded or not, I’ve watched some videos of live missiles hitting test ships and it would seem to me, a layman in all this, that the damage on the videos isn’t matched by the damage we see on Sheffield.

Just one view.