tylerrogoway
Tyler Rogoway
tylerrogoway
Editor, Foxtrot Alpha

Well, I knew nothing about this. But it is good to have someone well educated on the matter share his thoughts. Read more

The prison like swimming pool had a secondary use as an emergency heat sink in the event of a reactor loss of coolant emergency. Read more

He did make it pretty clear in the headline that this was to be taken with a grain of salt. Read more

Actually Tyler’s report gives some important perspective in contrast to those new sites that are reporting this more or less as fact. Read more

Did you read the article, or just comment on the headline (that clearly says “Unconfirmed”)? There is tons of credible knowledge in the article. Read more

I spent an hour on this page alone tonight. Great article, well put forward and reasoned, and, as a bonus, some terrific comments also. Thought provoking stuff. Read more

I’m not so sure it was a strategic play, either. I ran through all of this in my head (great thing to be doing on a Friday night, huh?) began putting some pieces together, and kind of stumbled across this idea by accident. I ran it by the girlfriend who looked at me like I was speaking Russian, and then decided to Read more

It is a damn accident, but yes it is a possibility. Russia is running up some huge debt already with these operations, given the state of their economy and the drop in fuel prices. Read more

I’d like to advance a theory here. Bear with me because it’s very much a work-in-progress. Tyler, any thoughts are wholly welcome. Read more

Sweet! Managed to snap this back in 98 I believe in Thailand during the annual Cobra Gold exercise, back when I was with ACU-1.

My oldest brother works on these as an AE in Norfolk and I got to see them. Boyyyyy are they huge. (Part of the tail is folded.)

When I was in training at Ft. Eustis, the navy 53s from Norfolk used to do this. Blew my mind every time seeing something the size of a decent house doing that. Read more

That Hind slow-mo is almost dirty. Read more

Okay so to purly try and discuss the F-35 issue as a whole and the reporting upon it these are some of the points I feel make up the whole issue. Read more

Forget the Fred Thompson meme for a moment.

This could get very, very ugly very, very quickly. Read more