This argument that the F35 can still support the CAS role with its reduced power round and especially the capacity is comical. The brass is only acknowledging that the F35 won't be an A-10, because they finally realized the power of the internet is far greater than their power to convince the masses to just push the Believe Button and jump on the JSF bandwagon.

Look at reports from the battlefield, you don't even have to look closely. The number one reason an A10 leaves the air space above a fight in progress is due to being fully expended in the ammo drum. That is with 1174 rounds to start with. Ignore the devastating power of each of those rounds for just a second, and compare round count: 220 vs 1174. The GAU-8 can fire very short bursts too, but it isn't because it needs to in order to maintain high accuracy. Now about those two different rounds: they aren't close in destructive power, the 30mm is far superior. So the JSF will carry 18% of the rounds the A10 does for CAS, and they are less effective, and depend on computer targeting to be able to deliver them to the target. You can't just point the plane and pull the trigger and get great results.

The brass is desperately trying to convince the public (and themselves) that the JSF will do a fine job at CAS. Sadly, it will take more Robert's Ridge disasters to prove this fallacy. This whole JSF CAS thing is just a joke. The brass declared that the JSF would be great at CAS without having a F35 to perform CAS with to prove that contention. The brass already decided their answer, and keep restructuring the argument to fit their pre-determined result.

Nasa should hold seminars for manufacturing in the USA. They could put the rip-off extended warranty businesses out of business.

I'd buy a tag if the ODFW sold them

Is jail quieter than a trailer park? Besides the slamming of the doors with bars...

What about Minor In Possession? You don't get an MIP if you are drunk, only if they catch you with the bottle in your hand? Sad that it seems the administration at UO equates doing whatever it takes to have a top program, bringing in questionable youths and actively recruiting thugs, as being the route to success as a top tier program. Also sad that Daddy Knight doesn't pull the money plug, just feeds more into the cause.

Some cougars like their prey well armed too...

Brave doesn't do much against a top level predator like a cougar or bear, or dangerous dogs like a loose pitt.

I'd rather be armed, alive, and called a chicken, than to have a friend or family member describe me as a 'brave man who would help anyone' at my funeral or to reporters on the front step. But belittling gun owners is the number one tactic anti-gunners go with when trying to force their will / beliefs on others.

And I would bet that cpt_iceman was indeed feeling pretty brave at that point. Well armed to defend one's self, not a lot to be afraid of.

Not the best job of it, but sensationalism strikes again!

The 'reporter' could have followed the "military-type ammunition" statement with a disclaimer that what has to be the most common source of legal ammo for shooting practice/plinking etc. is in fact military ammunition that is repackaged or sold in bulk after not making the grade for Gov't purchase. There is nothing sinister in the fact it's Mil surplus/reject ammo, that is just good business. Outrage / shock / fear over someone possessing 500 or 1000 rounds of ammunition for their rifle or handgun? Please. It is the most economical and convenient way to buy it - already piled into a military surplus ammunition can or plastic immitation of one, sold in qualtities of.... yes you guessed it: 500 or 1000 rounds.

Sensationalism cracks me up sometimes, but frequently it seems almost criminal in the clear attempt to sway the readers to bias against gun owners just because some nut shot someone or tried to.

I would be interested to see that! I have been confronted by some of their poor misguided recruits at sportsman's shows going back to when we had 2 of them each year, one at the cenvention center just ahead of the expo center show. At a Cabel's in Detroit, and always it was the whole animal kingdom they were saving. I've noticed that their approach had shifted, sounds like their mission has too? They have done some bad stuff in recent years, like 'adopting' pet dogs then killing and dumping them, to 'save them' from the evil life of being someone's pet. East coast chapter I believe.

I stand corrected, iceman.

Right on the money. Coyotes were long held to the same 'scavenger' title as hyenas, with the exception of their hunting mice & rodents. Fact is they are truly efficient predators, ODFW agents fairly opely stating they are the most efficient predator of pets (cats/dogs). I've seen a mouflon sheep under pack attack along the John Day, and seen them dragging off a doomed fawn across a grass seed field west of Hillsboro.

They are most certainly adapting to changing conditions.