Recent content by Alan

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/48017235/us-women-hockey-declines-trump-invite-state-union

Military seacraft are just unbelievable pieces of engineering. Aircraft carriers particularly require an act of God to be sunk. When CV America (commissioned in 1965) was scuttled by internal explosives in 2005, it was after being hit by underwater explosives and missiles daily for almost four...

Yeah, the modus operandi of this administration is "say whatever, say it loudly, say it a lot". A lot of folks in the US won't have a clue that the Navy only has two hospital ships or that they're both undergoing maintenance in drydock at Alabama Shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. USNS Mercy is...

Maybe I have the timeline mixed up. I thought the Danish statement came first.

Heli's are typical for submarine medevacs due to size and speed. Any mid-mission medevac from a submarine must go completely undetected or the entire deployment is squandered, and ships are too large, slow, and easily tracked to be useful in those scenarios. Surfacing is the most dangerous...

All really fascinating. It's incredibly rare to have a submariner get evac'd mid-deployment, and this might be the first time I've ever heard of it being assisted by a foreign military, even an ally (doesn't mean it hasn't happened, of course). I'm surprised the Danish military put information...

If the improvement amounts to a single win then what good is it

Excuse me sir but you don’t know my face

Also, Fosun can burn.

I’d rather have fucking TC than RE just now

Yeah, and Nickelback were the biggest band in the world once. ;)

Or you realize while kicking it. Irrelevant but I've seen it multiple times now and that's that.

Are you telling me that fandom is irrational and makes people do weird things

I'm looking. It's entirely moot, really, but for me that's not a clear second yellow.

I don't see it tbh