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In Aviation there are nautical miles for ground distance, knots for speed and feet for altitude. But in US aviation there are also statute miles for airport visibility and feet for…

Typical modern war is net loss for every participant. The US could probably do without China but US partners would not. Australia, Japan, South Korea etc. would at some point break…

The US and Taiwan don't have military alliance. The Taiwan Relations Act is carefully worded to avoid any commitment and maintain strategic ambiguity and keep both sides in check. …

There are two possibilities: 1. it's practical impossibility to make unarmed nuclear warhead to explode spontaneously. The worst thing that can happen is conventional explosion tha…

Power efficiency makes lasers in fighters problematic. The current cutting edge lasers have 35 percent efficiency. If you heat the target with 100 kW power, the fighter absorbs 300…

Reflective mirror surface is good for stealth if the angle is right.

Despite what other commentators say, mirrors would work in theory. In fact lasers themselves have mirrors. High quality mirror material with > 99.8% reflectivity near infrared regi…

This is not anecdotal information. This is public person directly involved laying down criminal blackmail attempt accusation whose goal was to stop him from investigating the sourc…

It looks like criminal blackmail attempt. In a normal case Bezos would just forward all evidence to authorities for more investigation and prosecution. He would issue short press r…

Paying for informants is one of the most efficient uses of government money. It's not a large sum.

In many states FBI has run out of replacement tires for vehicles, DNA swab kits, trace evidence filters. FBI can't pay for translator services, etc. They can't pay for informants.

Root causes for this mess: * Navy culture where chronic sleep deprivation is used as substitute for battlefield heroics. Navy aviators have enough sleep scheduled. Surface Navy has…