I miss Obama

[Spider]

Wow. So this thread got painful to read, what with Ex somehow managing to impale his snatch on a sandblaster gun.

That said, Canada has legitimate concerns over single engine aircraft given their particular situation. Finland is in the same boat, as they are also currently looking to upgrade from their old F/A-18's to something a bit less archaic...especially with a a new level of belligerence from Russia. Finland is being pretty deliberate about their upgrade process. But honestly, in both cases, sticking to the familiar platform...or at least just going with the Super Hornet, would be a fine move. Aussies have been happy with theirs.

And let's face it. The Canadians have nothing to fear, really. They could still be flying their old F-104's. Wouldn't matter. (And, in all likelihood, there was someone like Ex calling the F/A-18 a piece of shit back then, too.) The US would no more tolerate aggression against Canada than we would Alaska.

Besides, Canadians are apparently already getting their asses kicked by the avian wildlife, to hear Ex tell it. When those are the stakes, all we can really offer our beleaguered northern allies is solidarity and a reaffirmed commitment to mutual defense should the geese finally confederate and turn their envious gaze against us both.

[Dylan]

Lol that last line is devestating. Ex isnt going to walk right for a month

[exploited]

http://content.time.com/time/nation/art ... 75,00.html

Utterly disgraceful. Twenty-four American service members get killed after their plane gets hit by Canada geese (1995). A jetline taking off from La Guardia goes down, again by Canada geese (2009). The number of birdstrikes quadruples from 1990 to 2007, from 1800 to nearly 8000.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bir ... e-1.361189

500 planes damaged by bird strikes since 2000. 166 of them had to make emergency landings. Annual cost exceeds $600 million.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-ne ... adas-birds

Over 25% of crashes of Canada's single-engine Starfighter jet, over a twenty-five year span, are caused by bird strikes.

And here we have the Jackoff Squad going "lulululz Canada" and refusing to engage in any actual debate whatsoever. The weirdest thing is the immaturity of it all - I'm supposed to be the immature one here, not Spider, although such behaviour from Comrade and Dylan isn't altogether expected, seeing as how their role here is to get kicked around while declaring themselves the victor.

I am genuinely looking forward for Comrade to post all his amazing technological facts about the F-35, and then I'll get to go through them one by one, explaining how they either don't work (and won't work for years), or they don't serve any purpose that couldn't have been done at 1/10th the cost by something else. But no doubt after I do this, the JS will continue it's reign of 2004 trolling terror, as if anyone is still impressed by "u mads" and juvenile nationalistic barbs.

[Spider]

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[John Galt]

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[Dylan]

you would've liked one of my buddies in college. dude would go geese hunting and come back with a pickup truck bed literally piled high with dead geese.

i like geese though.

I will stand with geese should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

[Winchester]

[Dylan]