Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) guidance kit for the 2.75-inch rocket
vid and pic
Note that this a Lockheed-Martin analogue to BAE’s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System that I wrote about a few months back.
The rocket and guidance, semi-active laser homing for DAGR, appears to be pretty much the same as APKWS, though it appears that the launcher is designed to be compatible with Hellfire, as opposed to the existing 2.75″ rocket launchers.
Here is the video for the earth shattering kaboom.
Remember that Obama wanted to start living in Blair House on January 1, as opposed to January 15, because his two children needed to start school?
Remember how the Bushies said that they couldn’t because it was already booked.
It turns out that it was a lie. There was no one booked to stay there, and they hurriedly invited John Howard, Australia’s former Prime Minister for one night so that Bush could bestow upon him that final mark of shame, a Medal of Freedom.
Note that Blair house has 119 rooms and 35 bathrooms, so they might never have even seen each other.
They really are a group of very small people.
A story on the Heart Attack Grill, and the arteries in my eyes are hardening just watching.
So, I come across this story describing how Bush’s push for home ownership, aka the “Ownership Society,” was responsible in part for the housing crash.
I tend to agree with the Shrill One, when he says that Bush’s support of home ownership had the same role in the housing bubble as his support for marital fidelity did in the overall rate of adultery in the USA, and that his most significant contribution was in stripping away regulation that protected people from predatory lendors.
That being said, I cannot allow this quote go unanswered:
Then his Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson Jr., told him that to stave off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in history. Bush, according to several people in the room, paused for a single, stunned moment to take it all in.
“How,” he wondered aloud, “did we get here?”
You just cannot read that and then not show a clip of the seminal music video from Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime.
A brief synopsis of what’s going on with the F-22
Obviously, it’s from the vendor, and as such should be viewed as fluff, but it’s eye catching fluff.
Well, I guess any landing that you can walk away from…..
OK, he didn’t use the word “uppity”, but considering his behavior, where he seems to make a living out of condemning things like Rap music (and getting the lyrics wrong in the process), his screeds against the Iraqi people on Billo’s show should come as no surprise.
But’s let’s read what he said (vid below):
WILLIAMS: But on a serious level, how many American lives have been sacrificed to the cause of liberating Iraq? How much money has been spent while they’re not spending their own profits from their oil? American money. So I just think it’s absolutely the act of an ingrate for them to behave in this way. Just unbelievable to me.
Them, huh….They should shut up and sing spirituals eat their falafel.
Yes, they are ingrates because they object to being invaded and conquered, which has created this reality:
And those numbers ignore the somewhere north of ½ million dead that are a result of the mess we made.
They should be grateful, because even though we took them prisoner and sold them as slaves across the oceans, their life is much better on the plantation …. they get purple fingers.
Could someone explain to me why Juan Williams isn’t excluded from polite society like David Duke?
Sponsor an executive, The money you give won’t just save a life, it’ll save a lifestyle.
Courtesy of, “This Hour Has 22 Minutes.”
So, he shows Stephen Hayes from CNN, and says that for the economy, losing the auto industry would just be like losing a foot, but then he continues:
Right…it’s just a foot. If we had let the banking industry fail we would have lost our assholes.
2:50 on this vid
Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan says that he thinks that Nouriel Roubini is actually underestimating the magnitude of the financial collapse that we are seeing here.
If he’s right, we don’t need to stock up on gold, we need to stock up on ammunition and canned goods.
A cat. A roomba.
….And they have a plan.
So, my kids are watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, and they have a “Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends” float.
On the float, Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
They Rickrolled me!!!!!!
Update:
The Youtube:
Another edit:
The Wiki for Rickrolling.
Peter Schiff completely owning financial pundits, including the unbelievably stupid Ben Stein (at 4:00_ proving that he’s a better comedian than he id an economist.
And he sucks as a comedian.
*Owned.
It’s a nice primer on stealth. (3:40)
And specifically on how SAAB will ensure that the upgraded Gripen NG will remain cost effective: (paid subscription required)
Moreover, Gripen NG embodies a new business model that aims to cut costs even with low production rates. “The market is extremely price-sensitive,” and the build approach for the new version reflects this, says Bob Kemp, marketing director for Gripen International.
In the past, Gripen embraced technologies that designers modified to fit specific needs—as was the case with the General Electric F404 engine that Volvo turned into the fighter’s RM12 powerplant. For the Gripen NG, Saab went directly to GE and asked for an F414, the latest version of the F/A-18E/F’s engine with minimal changes. The F414G features some adjustments to the full-authority digital engine control and power supply, largely because Gripen is a single-engine fighter (whereas the F/A-18E/F has two engines). This seemingly innocuous change allows Saab to reduce engine costs 20%, even though the F414 is a higher thrust engine with a greater sticker price than the F404.
(emphasis mine)
Another possibility in this model is the use of some commercial systems, with even greater cost/performance advantages.
It’s why I think that it will be see a successful export market. even though it just lost in Norway, because these aircraft, and pretty much all of the high end military systems out there, have gotten too damn expensive.
BTW, here is a nice bit of video from Aviation Week:
Too much catnip.
Palin giving a post turkey pardon interview while other turkies are slaughtered behind her.
I didn’t want to post this, but the peer pressure from the liberal blogosphere proved too strong.
Damn you John Aravosis!
Truth be told, I also saw this on MSNBC Countdown, where they blurred out the nasty bits, and supplied some very amusing headlines to go along with it. (click on picture for full size)
He’s the 5th grade bully who did not grow an inch over the Summer, and has entered 6th grade, and is no longer big enough to enjoy fear.
Everyone else is shaking hands, but they keep their hands away from him.
A very shallow explanation of bonds, done in the style of Schoolhouse Rock.