"It uses a rocket booster as well as a throttleable ramjet motor that can continue to power the missile until impact, allowing for late-stage maneuverability. That capability increases its kill-zone compared to more common rocket-powered air-to-air missiles that coast after their initial boost.

Saab lists Meteor's range as more than 100 kilometers and its speed at over Mach 4, though the range is regularly reported as being around 200 kilometers.

Meteor was "arguably the most capable AAM currently in service on Western combat aircraft," the London-based International Institute for Security Studies wrote in a report in September 2022."

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If Vlad blinks at all in the negotiations, this could be a factor. But then, he'll just break any agreement that's made anyway when he can.

And everyone knows this.

I'm Bad I'm Nationwide

#9

Needs to do a tour of Southern Red states... you know, the GOP wage slave plantations that suck money from blue states.

This is your brain on Fox News... the Rwing Outrage Channel of Choice.

Just remember what JC said about trans.... oh, wait...

OK, nothing. But there's what Paul said about sexual perversions (not that that's what this is) he said don't participate, but more importantly, don't judge people who do.

Because if you do, that same harsh judgement will be used on you.

"Meanwhile, morale among ICE agents is already plummeting after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse attending a protest in Minnesota.

In addition to being roundly hated by the public they spend their work days terrorizing, ICE agents are also complaining of long working hours and high arrest quotas."

more at the original story link

Not everyone will agree with him on everything, but not many will ever accuse him of lying about anything.

Well, the Lyin' King would were he ever to notice him... which one day he might, if we're lucky.

Bill Clinton CALLS Trump's BLUFF for PUBLIC HEARING on Epstein

- label political opponents Nazis.

Apparently DumbBell is still denying that Trump perfectly fits the Dictionary Definition of Fascism.

People who support a Fascist Leader are not patriots, they are cowards.

MTG for all her nonsense proves not to be a coward.

Thanks for posting this, YAV!

"Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorise people is more important to Russia than diplomacy," Zelenskyy said.

He urged Western allies to send more air defence supplies and bring "maximum pressure" on Russia to end its full-scale invasion, now nearing its four-year mark.

In Kyiv, strikes damaged and set fire to residential buildings, a kindergarten and a petrol station, wounding five people, the State Emergency Service said."

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Meanwhile back at the WH, DJT hangs a photograph of himself and Putin on a wall there.

Of course, both of these child killers should be hung, just not on a WH wall in a photo.

What do you call someone who obfuscates for a Fascist President on a daily basis?

Trump is still a Fascist, btw, despite Bellboy's whining denials and blaming people for making the perfectly apt point that he fits the very definition of Fascism.

His supporters eat this stuff up.

Fishpaw and Bellboy are Boycotting Italian gelato. Don't get them started on the Sorbetto Scandal!

Here's a real Conservative admitting that his class of Elites created a caste system:

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart) | David Brooks

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""This federal tax credit proposal would divert public resources to private K-12 campuses with little accountability, while increasing racial isolation and inequality," said Jones, senior director of public policy and advocacy at the Southern Education Foundation.

"Our public education system should be strengthened " not hollowed out by policies that put profit and privilege ahead of students' civil rights in the name of so-called 'choice.'"

"The federal voucher tax credit may not change anyone's tax bill much, but it signals a clear shift in priorities.

Instead of fully funding public schools, the federal government is experimenting with privatization " even as classrooms remain under-resourced and students' needs go unmet.".

much more

"In fact, the provision represents something not directly asked of voters: the federal government's deliberate shift away from strengthening public education and toward normalizing school privatization."

"That shift comes as the Trump administration continues efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. While current appropriations law has kept much of the agency and its funding formally intact, staffing cuts and administrative rollbacks have already weakened oversight and disrupted services that support low-income students, children with disabilities, and vulnerable families."

"This is not a program meant to enrich donors. There is no financial upside commensurate with the rhetoric surrounding it.

Instead, the real value lies elsewhere " in reshaping federal education policy, embedding private-school subsidies into the tax code, and slowly redefining the federal government's relationship to public education."

"Critics argue that such thresholds undermine claims that the program is narrowly targeted to families with limited means, especially in a state still struggling to fully fund its public schools.

"School voucher programs drain dollars from public schools in ways that are indiscriminate and difficult to predict," Pennsylvania school board member Ariel Zych said during a January 28th virtual press conference, "making it harder to build responsible budgets and retain teachers."

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"By embedding school choice in federal tax policy, conservatives and voucher advocates are seeking to normalize private alternatives as a permanent part of the education ecosystem, even in states where voters and lawmakers have repeatedly rejected voucher expansion.

Last year, more than 150 public education organizations, standing in opposition to voucher expansion, wrote a joint letter to governors saying that their coalition is "not rejecting funding; it is rejecting the dismantling of public schools."

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He also runs away from his own threads when called on his Nazi Fetish.

- Hillary's pedophile pizza ring!

Makes one wonder how early QaMAGA knew about the Epstein-Trump Pedo Model Ring that they came up with that fiction to counter it?

He is not under any circumstances planning on leaving the WH.

Write that down somewhere.

It's a Show Trial... you know, the kind of Lawfare that Republicans supposedly hate.

But I think Bubba has a few Trump stories he wants to tell.

Hillary still living rent-free in ---------- head afte all these years, eh?

Aw, well... there's always been plenty of vacant space there.

They've replaced American values with partisan political goals.

It's no longer about democracy, it's about power.

#666

Yes?

She wasn't a 'kook' until she broke with the Cult.