Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Must. Destroy. All. Trace. Of. Eeevilll. Tomcat. Nemesis….
Sounds like Greek Fire to me…
Lex,
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the F-18, but that’s just cold… Blowing up another man’s love affair…
Jim C
To my uninitiated self it sounds sort of like a cluster bomb. Actually, I wonder what a cluster bomb of these would be like.
[...] mirth has been made in certain blog circles (the tanker circle?) about the below image which accompanied an article on a new type of weapon [...]
Hmmmm,
Looks like that Tomcat has a serious fule management issue…..
Either that or he’s practicing extremely close-in fuel-air explosives delivery.
Respects,
Looks like the Tomcat is turning into the fire.
Looks like it’s clawing it’s way into the fight to me.
Oh and that cat is still on it’s feet. Without big heavy engines to hold it down.
Word was they were going to use a mothballed Hornet, but the brakes were mysteriously locked up and they couldn’t drag it to the target area. That and they wanted something that could actually take some damage without getting blown out of the target area.
Go figure.
Seems like a proper burial to me. Better than the butter knife wrecking crane thing. Blaze of Glory, and all.
Sorry for the Hornet snark, it’s F-14 day on my Above and Beyond Desk Calendar.
Is that what that picture was? I thought it was just the Pratt and Whitneys coming apart on the hold-short at Oceana.
Boy the Iranians are gonna be pissed – there go some more of their spare parts…
Lex,
Can’t be an RA-5C ’cause it’s got two tails…
Sorta reminds me of that movie of the “Sewer Pipe” hiding under a revetment getting blasted Lex posted a cuppla years back.
Same theme.
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