And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
KA-52 Alligator. Questionable on the "advanced" part like a lot of Russian hardware. Ukraine has shot down quite a few and there's reports of the optics/sensors not being so great. I guess they were good enough to take out some John Deere harvesters though. (google it)
Ahhh, helicopters. Many years ago a pilot told me they don't fly, they are so ugly the ground repels them but I think ugly machinery eventually becomes cool if done right. I wonder how many lives they have saved over the years. I remain grateful some one invented them and have enjoyed a few flights in them.
They put a lot of advanced stuff on those, might be the best attack rotary wings going.
ReplyDeleteGot to be 5 tech generations past the Apache's.
DeleteKA-52 Alligator. Questionable on the "advanced" part like a lot of Russian hardware. Ukraine has shot down quite a few and there's reports of the optics/sensors not being so great. I guess they were good enough to take out some John Deere harvesters though. (google it)
ReplyDeleteDidn't take long for a Russia Russia Russia hater come out from its mothers basement.
DeleteWow, that put me in my place. How will I ever recover from your snappy reply?
DeleteNext it will be telling us the Russians are using chips from GE washing machines an Krupp coffee makers
ReplyDeleteReally look like an alligator.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, helicopters. Many years ago a pilot told me they don't fly, they are so ugly the ground repels them but I think ugly machinery eventually becomes cool if done right. I wonder how many lives they have saved over the years. I remain grateful some one invented them and have enjoyed a few flights in them.
ReplyDeleteAmen to that brother.
DeleteRoger that, I got a front seat ride in a Hughes 500, from Nogales, Aridzona to Alpine, San Diego in '99. Flew low except for over Yuma and El Centro.
DeleteThe H-3 (SeaKing) pilots used to groan, "She may be ugly, but boy is she slow."
ReplyDeleteThats one big choppa.
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