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Given that one of the Trump edicts appears to define drug cartels as terrorist organisations, then one could simply follow the Clinton/Obama approach and JDAM them - yes, that's also Clancy with a more modern technological hat on.

Maybe its application space is roughly where Kevlar fabric sits now?

The difference being that Sir Humphrey knows that it is bullsh*t, this generation of snivelling serpents believes it.

Sriracha stirred into ketchup and mayo for burgers, or any one of various locally produced items like a sweet chilli jam and a Chipotle paste made by a local producer. Of course, there's piccalilli and proper English mustard as alternatives to give a good kick to sandwiches.

It's behind just about every country that most Americans who take the piss out of UK dental care might have heard of. Fix your own problems before hiding behind lies you project onto others.

Ai's biggest threat has nothing to do with style. It has to do with people not understanding that there is no "intelligence" there, and the "knowledge" is faked almost entirely by exploiting the statistical relationship between words in its database. At the moment, there are plenty of "tells" for detecting written AI content, but I fear it will become a more convincing liar as time passes.

Round nose vs pointed one, so Maverick. I'd be interested to see how the separation trials for the forward mounted Sparrows went, although the angle makes the layout look much worse than it probably is.

I'm fairly sure that I mentioned the increasing cost and other penalties of militarising drones some years ago, but who is counting? What we're seeing is a three-way divergence as drones become more specialised. Direct attack weapons where the drone is the munition. This includes FPV drones and differentiates itself from traditional guided weapons due to a significant loiter time and flexibility with respect to target selection. Stand-off attack weapons (where the drone is the carrier). The bomb droppers fit a bit between the above and this second category. ISTAR - where the capability is filling a niche between surface recce and the more traditional airborne tactical reconnaissance assets. I'm thinking only of tactical assets here - I don't think that the long range slow drones are particularly interesting or innovative, they're an inevitable consequence of the availability of cheap GNSS solutions and the now trivial autopilot solutions (including open source solutions for the latter).

On the recoil distance of various guns - might this be a case that the recoil length was part of the requirement placed on the gun's recoil mechanism to fit the tank, rather than the gun being selected because the recoil length allowed it to fit hte tank (depends on whether the cart or the horse was specified first.)

Yes, basically just the breast. A full turkey is a bit much for a single or couple, especially given that freezer space tends to be less generous in UK appliances. Obviously not suitable for weirdoes who want the dinosaur leg. As for an "air fryer", it's basically a table top fan oven generally in a pot format, so I don't see the hype. Buy a combination microwave instead.

Maybe the Type 21 - FI combatant, didn't sink, name is suitably apt and isn't of a type that might be wanted for an actual ship (like any of the city names).

I'm not particularly convinced by mission modularity - I'd expect that most variants with mission modules will keep them for their entire lives, or at least between significant refits. There was no mention of a recovery variant, which makes me wonder what the army will be using for that.

The limits of the Monarchy have been, as you have noted, tested continually with "the people" as represented by Parliament tending to win the debate in recent centuries. In fact, it hasn't been properly tested since King Charles 1st was briefly advised that putting his neck on the line for it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. However, Royal Assent is required for acts of parliament and there have been many recent (i.e. QE2 era) where the monarch has influenced details of specific laws as part of the consultation process. Much like the US Congress is very good at making laws that apply to everyone but themselves, HMQ apparently managed to get laws amended so they didn't affect her or the Crown Estate.

I exaggerated slightly, perhaps, and I would speculate that the cost of services in the US would deter lower income people from getting adequate primary care, which is rarely a significant problem in the UK, even though we moan about it - we moan about everything, after all. https://www.yongeeglintondental.com/blog/healthy-primary-teeth/ 8th out of 10 in that survey, with the UK 4th. https://www.grinmag.com/archive/en/ddmo/2018/summer/lifestyle/two-word-answers-british-teeth-vs-american-teeth/#:~:text=But findings detailed by the,actually have better oral health. You can google for others, if you wish.

If it means the same as it does for the UK, then it means that Parliament does not sit and so cannot make law (or debate anything, either). This is completely distinct from suspending an MP for misconduct (or by their ankles from a lamp post).