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Interested in a joke? Germany decided to send four Tiger helicopters to support combat operations in Mali. Now the first two have arrived... Thanks to poor planning and political reasons ("who wants to spend money on upgrades now, if you can spend the money in the future"), they are armed with a 12.7 mm gun pod aswell as... nothing! Yes, a €45 million combat helicopter is armed with a 12.7 mm M2 machine gun only. Sending an equal amount of CH-53s to Mali would have provided greater firepower!

I've been warning Tony of this failure mode for years. He never listened to me (although I was probably too late to begin with). It's funny that recently he tried to trot out the bogeyman that my proposals would result in failure modes similar to his GPC... So what he's saying is that I'm right, and you need to push for proposals that are as light as possible because otherwise the powers that be will overdo it? I never understood why I was supposed to be so terrified of that "revelation". Anyway, I guess he still thinks of me as being on one side of the fence or the other.

Sappers in Palmyra 2.0

Saw this today in Fairfax. Its a 68 or 69 Plymouth GTX with a 440. I couldn't get interior shots.

Now with full sideskirts and ERA: