Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding

I don't know if this is true or not. Karoline Leavitt retweeted this story telling people:
"Stop what you're doing and read this!"

Does that mean it's true? No!

Because I spent the weekend watching videos about the Maduro capture, and I discovered that we are all currently living in a Tom Clancy novel.

Do you remember first reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising and wondering, Could this bullshit be true? Are we living in a sci-fi world that is being kept secret from us?

And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.

Is Leavitt confirming we really have a directed energy weapon that Delta Force uses to incapacitate people at a distance? Or is she just pushing this story because she wants Iran to think we have it?

So first, the directed energy weapon which may or may not exist, and which Karoline Leavitt may or may not be lying about to sow confusion about what we actually did do in Caracas:

The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.
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Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared -- "barely eight," by his count -- deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.
But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.
"They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."
What ensued, he said, was not a battle but a slaughter.
"We were hundreds, but we had no chance," he said. "They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute."

Well they are among the best-trained shooters in history. And they carry some really good guns. I have a video linked below about that.

Then came the weapon that still haunts him.
"At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it," he said. "It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside."
The effects were immediate and horrific.
"We all started bleeding from the nose," he said. "Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon -- or whatever it was."
The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt's sharing of the post -- captioned, "Stop what you are doing and read this..." -- indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.
...
The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.
"Those 20 men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us," he claimed. "We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it."
The military has had directed energy weapons -- which neutralize targets using focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams -- for years, but this could be the first time it's been used in combat by the US, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post. China reportedly used a microwave weapon in 2020 against Indian soldiers during a border dispute in Ladakh.

This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.

A Venezuelan security guard for Maduro warns against fighting Americans describing the U.S. raid: 20 men with superior tech disabled radars, downed drones, and killed hundreds unharmed. They fired 300 rounds/min and used a sonic weapon causing instant bleeding and incapacitation.… pic.twitter.com/tTVT2l5Qwk
— ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể (@TheThe1776) January 9, 2026

Now here are some of the things I saw claimed in various videos about the capture.

Some of this is confirmed by General Caine, in his post-action briefing. Some of it is speculative. I think people are asking AI to summarize what happened or what probably happened, and AI is offering possible scenarios, which are being claimed as fact.

But a lot of this at least seems likely to me. I'm sharing it because it's neat. I don't know if it's the truth. But it's a neat story.

1. General Caine said that CIA spooks were infiltrated into the country weeks before the invasion. He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."

One assumes they already had the layout of his presidential hidey-hole, because Trump revealed they went in with powerful blowtorches to cut through the steel doors of the panic room they knew he would run to. (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.) The Deltas practiced on a replica presidential building for months before the op.

2. This is one of the most jawdropping things -- the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro. The US needed to park an aircraft carrier (our newest super carrier currently in operation, the Gerald R. Ford) off the coast and flood the skies with surveillance planes and drones, to map out all of Venezuela's communications and their SAM missile arrays. They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.

So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.

3. The drug-boat operation stuff also had another purpose, apart from cover and sigint collection and actually stopping the drug boats. The US wanted Venezuela's military and their radar operators to accept that there would be dozens and dozens of US planes in their airspace at all times. They wanted to get them to treat this as Situation Normal, No Big Deal. So the operation went on for 48 days, with Venezuela no longer on high alert just because there were 100 US planes in their skies. So on the night of the operation, they would have no idea that something big was in the air, until it was already all over.

4. The Nightstalkers (the US elite helicopter squadron) used modified Chinooks and Blackhawks with some stealth capability. Like, the helicopters have radar-absorbing skin. But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet. I think they crank out 100 decibels when moving. Because they would be flying nap-of-the-earth, anyone on the ground would hear them.

So this is pretty neat: The military couldn't make the helicopters any quieter, so instead, they made everything else noisier. They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise. Someone observed that the F-35s, which do have a good stealth ability, had all of their stealth sliders turned down so that they'd be all anyone could hear.

Some F-35s did use stealth, when they were actually attacking targets like the radar installations and Russian SAM trucks, but the US put 150 planes into the sky just to create an "acoustic shield" that would effectively create a dome of stealth for the helicopters.

In addition, all of those planes in the sky meant that Venezuelan radarmen had their screens packed with contacts and could not notice six or eight helicopters flying towards the military base at Fuerte Tiuna.

5. Ultimately US planes began attacking positions in the Fuerte Tiuna military base, mostly not for any direct tactical advantage, but just create chaos and confusion and noise.

While the operation killed at least 100 Venezuelan guards and Cuban mercenaries, it was pretty merciful, otherwise. When Venezuelan pilots scrambled to challenge the invading planes, they were told over the radios, in Spanish, "return to the ground or you will be destroyed." Most did. Some Venezuelan planes attempted to follow the helicopters as they flew back into international waters, but US pilots locked their missiles on them, and the missile-lock warning was enough to convince the pilots to turn around and return to their bases.

And this is just speculation on my part, but I think we were trying to convince Venezuela that if we took action against them, it would be a conventional amphibious invasion kind of thing. I think Trump warned that there would be land-based attacks on Venezuela just to prime them to expect that kind of attack. And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.

Just amazing stuff, even if you don't believe the US now has some kind of weapon that can stun and incapacitate dozens of men at a distance.

Some videos: The military's use of a "sonic shield."

A video of how the operation might have happened.

A video about the helicopters, guns, and "spider-eyes" nightvision goggles that Delta Force used.

Our newest supercarrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in the operation. It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it. A second aircraft carrier in the new Gerald R. Ford class, the USS John F. Kennedy, will be commissioned early in 2026. The Ford had a tough roll-out because it apparently employs 23 new technologies and some of them were buggy, but the John F. Kennedy is built with the lessons learned from the Ford and will hopefully be ready for action more quickly.

A big new innovation in both ships is that the catapults that launch the planes are driven by electromagnets, not steam as in the Nimitz-class carriers, and can launch planes more than twice as quickly as the older flattops.

Posted by: Ace at 05:26 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (LdBR/)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (LdBR/)

3 Purely accidental

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (3ImbR)

4 Set Phasers to Stun, right Ace?

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (pDt9x)

5 After I eat a few bowls of Cajon beans and rice, I too have a sonic weapon that can take people out instantly.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (abIsI)

6 Sonic Peruvian marching powder?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (9cHSL)

7 Cajun.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (abIsI)

8 They should install that device on the 1 California bus. Bunch of animals on that line.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (RIvkX)

9 The Brown Note story returns!!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (pDt9x)

10 I think deploying the gay gas would have been funnier.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (abIsI)

11 Texas aside, Don't mess with the US.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (mlg/3)

12 Two by two...hands of blue.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (ESVrU)

13 Two by two...hands of blue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Can't stop the signal, Mal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (mlg/3)

14 I've had my nose erupt into bleeding a couple of times. I was on the receiving end of a balled up fist on both occasions... ahhhh youth

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (Bo9Yf)

15 It's more important that our enemies think it's true and they spend a lot of energy combatting it or trying to come up with their own.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (s19xO)

16 So how did this shmoe survive to tell the story?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)

17 Yoohoo!

They should install that device on the 1 California bus. Bunch of animals on that line.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Posted by: 30 Stockton at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

18
The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (Jxa0O)

19 >>The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

yeah I'm dubious.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (1wjle)

20 The Venezulan guard is saying this? The guard who failed to protect his boss and let him get snatched up by US soldiers?

"No senor, it wasn't that we all bravely ran away. No, there was a secret mystery weapon that kept us from laying down our lives for El Jefe!"

Posted by: Taylor at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (DJPFk)

21 " It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it."

That's only, like, 4 buildings in DC.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (vFG9F)

22 Yanqui Perfidy strikes again!!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (pDt9x)

23 Jedi mind trick.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (9cHSL)

24 18
The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (Jxa0O)

Hundreds were Killed ? I thought it was 32 ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (VE6XX)

25 >>The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

How did he avoid getting whacked?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (ZcsJV)

26 And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.

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yes, I wonder who...hmmm....also, there was another security leak about 2 months(?) prior, pretty much saying that there will be military action, and that Rubio was the point man. then Trump actually got a question in some stupid presser, he denied it (of course)

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (g47mK)

27 Hoping we do something about Iran now, and soon.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (gDlxJ)

28 25 >>The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

How did he avoid getting whacked?
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (ZcsJV)

Bad earwax condition.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (pDt9x)

29 so Cucker has people on the inside and they continue leaking to him, like they were from the Pentagon, until Hegseth found them and canned them

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (g47mK)

30 They used a sound weapon in Pittsburgh, PA during the Osama Obama years. A G8? Meeting held in downtown, with chain link fencing enclosing the downtown.

Posted by: Baldy at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (2Z8+h)

31 Makes me proud of America again. MMPAA!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9)

32 Posted by: 30 Stockton at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

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*busts out* got me

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (RIvkX)

33 'Tis possible there was no weapon, but that these Maduro thuglets just wet themselves and curled in a ball when they saw their companeros being misted.
I'm not trained for that shit, myself, so I'd certainly do that if I was plucked off the street and ordered to guard that asshole.
Maybe the "sonic weapon" was AC/DC's Hell's Bells played real loud.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (gKWVE)

34 When you get your ass reamed as well as the Venezuelan army did, I too would claim that the US Soldiers were nine foot ninjas that can teleport.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

35 Refreshing, ain't it! We have competent people setting policy, commanding ops, and chewing the scenery...

Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (BTwEN)

36 Must have missed the nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

37 It's possible... When they're doing a roofing job around my neighborhood the Mexican om pa pa music makes my ears bleed...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

38 a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees

Pussy?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (Kt19C)

39 The Venezulan guard is saying this? The guard who failed to protect his boss and let him get snatched up by US soldiers?

"No senor, it wasn't that we all bravely ran away. No, there was a secret mystery weapon that kept us from laying down our lives for El Jefe!"

Posted by: Taylor at January 12, 2026

***
I think this pretty much nails it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

40 I believe the nickname of the weapon during development was the "Nadler Fart Simulator."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (oeVx2)

41 The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

yeah I'm dubious.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (1wjle)
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When reading the original report on X some moron said it sounded like AI

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (RIvkX)

42
At least it wasn't the Gay-ray.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (IifOV)

43 Send it to Minneapolis.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (CNl8/)

44 Our enemies can believe our special forces rode in on the backs of dragons if that's what it takes to get them to knock of the bullshit.

I'm a little concerned that if we set too much of a precedent of nabbing foreign leaders with minimal other casualties, particularly if we advertise the use of non-lethal weapons, we're going to be setting expectations too far in that direction the next time the situation calls for killing a large pile of whomever.

"Why didn't you use stun beams?" will become the international "Why didn't you just shoot the gun out of his hand?"

Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (vSvIl)

45
the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro.

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That IS a jaw-dropper. I guess we won't be bothering to interdict any more drug boats, which is fine with me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Jxa0O)

46 When you get your ass reamed as well as the Venezuelan army did, I too would claim that the US Soldiers were nine foot ninjas that can teleport.
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

You mean nine feet tall, right to your? Right?
-David French, thinking he needs to use his extensive military contacts to arrange a meeting for his wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (zZu0s)

47 I had Waffle House chili once and that created quite a sonic weapon!

Posted by: Josephistan at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (G0Uu2)

48 Next time we send the rapist robots.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (jc0TO)

49 >>>And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.

They've developed millimeter wave tech that is supposed make it feel like your skin is being microwaved. There are also focused sonic weapons that were pitched as less lethal crowd control devices. This was a decade or more ago, seen on Future Weapons or a similar show on the Hitler Channel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (8SKzU)

50 We were already overwhelmed. And then they brought the Yoko.

Posted by: A Venezuelan soldier at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

51 Pretty cool.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (krQz2)

52 >>When you get your ass reamed as well as the Venezuelan army did, I too would claim that the US Soldiers were nine foot ninjas that can teleport.

'He must have slipped something into my drink...because I would never cheat on you, honey!'

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (ZcsJV)

53 "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood,

A full Moron weekends results.

Posted by: DaveA at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (FhXTo)

54 42
At least it wasn't the Gay-ray.
Posted by: Frank Barone

The Feds're saving that for YD's cookies when he visits here.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (gKWVE)

55 A secret American super weapon ate my homework.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (b5lit)

56 (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.)

We were calling to tell him we love him no more.

https://youtu.be/cUu4UHNTTrY

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (nhCoE)

57 No lasers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (9cHSL)

58 Oh, the irony of using the Havana Syndrome weapon against the Cubans...

Posted by: pookysgirl appreciates true irony at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (Wt5PA)

59 I was lucky to escape with my life, Jefe!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (jc0TO)

60 Since 300 rounds per minute is less than 1/2 of what an M4 carbine is capable of in full auto, I rate that Venzo Army dude's statement as plausible.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (TezPK)

61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (0U5gm)

62 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (snZF9)

63 "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood"

- The classic side effects of listening to "Loving You" by Minnie Riperton

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (IifOV)

64 Doubts aside, we have been seeing reports about this sort of weapons development for a long time, and it sounds like a perfect case for deployment.

Perhaps they've already been used. Recall similar reports about our embassy employees being subjected to such a weapon I forget where.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX)

65 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM

Having a ROE of kill everything in front of you helps.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

66 powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees

Black velvet if you please

Posted by: Alana Miles at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (TbWk/)

67 It's possible... When they're doing a roofing job around my neighborhood the Mexican om pa pa music makes my ears bleed...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

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Heh.

TBF, they really have to crank that shit to get the noise to pierce that of the leaf-blowers.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (oeVx2)

68 61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (gKWVE)

69 *busts out* got me
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Gung hay fat choy!

Posted by: 30 Stockton at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (KAi1n)

70
Perhaps they've already been used. Recall similar reports about our embassy employees being subjected to such a weapon I forget where.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX)

Cuba

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (VE6XX)

71 I'm a 'directed energy weapon' too!

Posted by: laser at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (ULPxl)

72 Palmer Lucky talked about some of this on Rogan a few months ago. Word to the wise. If the D Boys want to get you, you are going to get got.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (MZ+PY)

73 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then
Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM

I'm choking here.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (jc0TO)

74
57 No lasers?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (9cHSL)

Or sharks?

Posted by: Metalbeard the pirate at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (TbWk/)

75 I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.

Posted by: Eskimo at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (h39WR)

76 68 61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then
Posted by: gKWVE

It got them hypnotized.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (lUFok)

77 My ex-husband and kids would do that to me as they would run in the kitchen and crop dust me with their farts.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (oiNtH)

78 I'm a 'directed energy weapon' too!
Posted by: laser

You and me both, brother.

Posted by: Explosive Diarrhea at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (mlg/3)

79 68 61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then
Posted by: gKWVE

lol

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (1wjle)

80 Must have missed the nood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

Thanatopsis @ 5:27.

But it was a comment with the latest stealth features, and there were a lot of other comments being as loud as possible.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (nhCoE)

81 I think we should still kill drug runners and up the pressure by shutting down all the donkey shows in Tijuana.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (b5lit)

82 > This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.
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Rumors are it was exactly that.

Or ours that the Russians stole. Either or.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (NwnyJ)

83 It certainly might be like the awesome propaganda of the RAF pilots eating carrots to be so good at spotting Nazi planes at night - rather than having effective radar.

I don't want our enemies to develop effective counter-measures, I want them tilting at windmills.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (HlyYF)

84 I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.
Posted by: Eskimo

Good one!

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (oiNtH)

85 Guess its possible, but not totally believing it

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

86 I live this so much.

Peace through strength and deterrence. And lots of big, beautiful weapons.

More of this please. Aimed at Iran.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (vK/Ja)

87 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (g47mK)

88 There's been issues with the EMALS on Ford, mostly relating to maintenance and repairs. Somehow they designed it without the ability to isolate any of the catapults from each other so if one needed repairs, they're all out of order.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (gUs21)

89 This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.

This is immediately what I thought of.

I'm fine with us using it on them. I like it a lot less the other way around (against civilians, more or less, outside of combat operations).

I'd like to see counter-measures. But maybe we have developed those, as I've not read about more cases recently.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (UGyV5)

90 It's good to know that we have reconstituted the Super Soldier Serum.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (jc0TO)

91 >>> 75 I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.
Posted by: Eskimo at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (h39WR)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (ULPxl)

92 But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet.

pretty sure the technology for that was demonstrated in the well-known documentary "the nude bomb".

Posted by: anachronda at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (v3pYe)

93 Operation Rhianon

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)

94 >>It certainly might be like the awesome propaganda of the RAF pilots eating carrots to be so good at spotting Nazi planes at night - rather than having effective radar.

I learned about that from Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (ZcsJV)

95 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Gotta love our advanced technology!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (SRRAx)

96 Maybe they just used super-amplified recordings of Hillary's cackle.

Btw, would she get residuals for that?

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (2L+MU)

97 Platoon of Welsh witches?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (9cHSL)

98 I fucking hate Fleetwood Mac*.

*Not Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (ZcsJV)

99 Operation Rhianon
Posted by: ace

Oh, I love that singer.

Posted by: Every 20yr old influence on ShitTok at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

100 >>> 95 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Gotta love our advanced technology!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (SRRAx)

Awww, that's sweet. Thank you!

Posted by: the hamsters at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ULPxl)

101 They're strong to the finish 'cause they eats their spinach..

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (jc0TO)

102 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?
Posted by: runner

It's like a tariff, but explodier.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (nhCoE)

103 The "witness" here is spouting the same kind of bushes Third Worlders always spout to cover their butts when they fail big time. No Delta Force team is going to carry a bulky sonic weapon into combat instead of a shotgun or rifle. That sounds like an Ahnuld movie.

Having said that, there MIGHT have been a microwave weapon used. I've seen the test videos of that. However, it tends to make people run away to get out of the field. They don't just drop and start bleeding. Of course, I guess you could turn it up and get that effect, maybe. But the one I saw was pintel-mounted with a big generator.

But, yeah, most likely this guy pissed his pants when DF showed up and he had to explain why he had a bloody nose instead of a bullet between the eyes.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (IsyHZ)

104 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM

Having a ROE of kill everything in front of you helps.
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

Usually they send SEALs when the goal is to just kill everything. Delta brought both of the targets back alive and uninjured.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)

105 So they was killing the boat operators / mulesfor shits and giggles.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (/lPRQ)

106 The last video is pretty wild. We should have more Delta Force types with crazy hardware and tech. And send them to Minnesota.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)

107 So 1981's Scanners was a documentary?

Posted by: John Drake at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (GWvJt)

108 >>on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?

He didn't legalize pot.

He had it re-scheduled.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ZcsJV)

109 Blue Thunder?

Roy Scheider (as a crazy Vietnam veteran, lol) and that one guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

110 62 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (snZF9)
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If you've never seen one of these dudes shoot, I can see why the VZ guys thought they were shooting "300 rounds a minute" or whatever. They are absolutely fucking unreal.

There's a range here with an old west style town shooting course. 45 steel targets over about 70 yards or so, you're moving between doors and windows. My best time I think was like 2 minutes and some small change. A former D Boy showed up and shot the entire thing with zero misses in like 45 seconds. I almost gave up the shooting sports that day. It's like tossing the football in the backyard with your son and then Tom Brady shows up.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (5aZAZ)

111 >>>They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.

lol

And the idiot dems made a video saying ignore illegal orders. Dumbasses. Trump is so far inside their OODA loop, he's causing them to voluntary commit massive unforced errors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (8SKzU)

112 some of the Spanish channels on YouTube are saying Maduro was a prisoner of the Cubans in his gilded palace. It is fun to hear that, though I suspect it was a bit more complicated than that.
If Felix had rolled up Che in Bolivia instead of Che getting shot, I suspect we would know lots more about Cuba's actions on the revolutionaries in South America.
This time we have Maduro who can't risk going home and apparently owes the Russians and the Chinese gobs of money. I doubt he is going to be a champ in this situation, though he may wind up not hanging himself.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (rbvCR)

113 It's like a tariff, but explodier.
Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (nhCoE)

—————

Snort!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (u73oe)

114 > donkey shows in Tijuana

I can't stand walking around the Vegas strip because it's so trashy. I can't even imagine going somewhere I might happen across a freaking donkey show. I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (Yp6az)

115 But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet.

pretty sure the technology for that was demonstrated in the well-known documentary "the nude bomb".

Don't forget the technology demonstration platform in "Blue Thunder."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (lUFok)

116 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?
Posted by: runner

No one's OD'ing on pot, at all, and it's locally grown and sourced in every state. And it's called "cannabis" these days. Oh, and it's not legal - just Sched III.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (KAi1n)

117 I read a science fiction book back in the 70s that claimed police used to use sonic weapons against rioters that would loosen their anal sphincter and make them have to take crap really bad. I've always wanted that to be true and I really think that is the weapon they used in Venezuela.

Posted by: JTSmith at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (xNlZg)

118 Not "directed energy". Simply subsonic (google "brown note"). Been known for decades.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (GSe6k)

119 Operation Rhianon
Posted by: ace

Oh, I love that singer.
Posted by: Every 20yr old influence on ShitTok at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

Bitch tried to kill us both, I had to do something!

Posted by: Chris Brown at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (TbWk/)

120 106 The last video is pretty wild. We should have more Delta Force types with crazy hardware and tech. And send them to Minnesota.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)

So an actual Federal Invasion.. I'm all in for that

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (VE6XX)

121 He had it re-scheduled.

==

tomato , tomahto

he made it legal

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (g47mK)

122 >>I can't stand walking around the Vegas strip because it's so trashy. I can't even imagine going somewhere I might happen across a freaking donkey show. I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.

Think about how I feel.

Posted by: The Donkey at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (ZcsJV)

123 >>>The "witness" here is spouting the same kind of bushes Third Worlders always spout to cover their butts when they fail big time. No Delta Force team is going to carry a bulky sonic weapon into combat instead of a shotgun or rifle. That sounds like an Ahnuld movie.

i assume if it existed it would be a helicopter-mounted weapon

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (1wjle)

124 > I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.

Which one? The bleed out your ears stun ray? Or the gay ray?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (Yp6az)

125 Was Airwolf supposed to be quiet or just invisible on radar?

We need Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine on this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

126 Is the surviving soldier named "Chuy?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)

127 "cannabis"..."edibles"..."Affordable Care Act"...

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (g47mK)

128 Holy gunboats batman, this is absolutely amazing planning. Cleaning house and letting loose the hounds of war is very, very good.

Posted by: moki at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (wLjpr)

129 Danish Embassy security is lacking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (9cHSL)

130 >>he made it legal

No, he didn't. There's a difference between rescheduling and legalizing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (viF8m)

131 >>Roy Scheider (as a crazy Vietnam veteran, lol) and that one guy.

The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.

I liked that guy...

Posted by: Donald Trump at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (ZcsJV)

132 125 Was Airwolf supposed to be quiet or just invisible on radar?

We need Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine on this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

Love the theme music to that show

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (VE6XX)

133 >>>So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.

The price of coke as of last month had gone up 75% in Europe, according to some reports. There is a lot of coke use in Europe.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

134 I read a science fiction book back in the 70s that claimed police used to use sonic weapons against rioters that would loosen their anal sphincter and make them have to take crap really bad. I've always wanted that to be true and I really think that is the weapon they used in Venezuela.

Ah yes, "The Brown Note."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (lUFok)

135 I have been to Vegas a couple times and unless it has changed a lot in 20 years, I do not remember donkey shows on the strip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (zZu0s)

136 Sonic is a hedgehog.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (6Bc88)

137
Kudos, Ace.

Best breakdown of events I've seen yet.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)

138 >>he made it legal

No, he didn't. There's a difference between rescheduling and legalizing.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM

and Jack would know.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (jc0TO)

139 After I eat a few bowls of Cajon beans and rice, I too have a sonic weapon that can take people out instantly.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

suicide is not a weapon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (k9/y/)

140 i assume if it existed it would be a helicopter-mounted weapon
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (1wjle)
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"This is Big Duke Six. Initiate psyops. Start the music."

"Roger Big Duke Six."

*Ride of the Valkyries begins*

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)

141 He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."

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I need to get a gig like this. Kick it in Caracas with CIA $$$, call in from to time and say "yep, it was empanadas, again. Also carnitas. Send more $$$."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (BI5O2)

142 There is a 2013 news story, with Scott Jennings, talking about these sound weapons. I didn't watch it and don't know if I can find it on X

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (+mUZM)

143 >>>The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.
I liked that guy...
Posted by: Donald Trump

hah, thank you for remembering

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (1wjle)

144 I can't stand walking around the Vegas strip because it's so trashy. I can't even imagine going somewhere I might happen across a freaking donkey show. I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (Yp6az)

I question the reality of donkey shows. I know lots of people who claim to have known someone who went to one but it always sounded a bit like, "My gf attends a different school, you wouldn't know her."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

145 >>Roy Scheider (as a crazy Vietnam veteran, lol) and that one guy.

The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.

I liked that guy...
Posted by: Donald Trump at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM

He had to .... Rip it!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (jc0TO)

146 The price of coke as of last month had gone up 75% in Europe, according to some reports. There is a lot of coke use in Europe.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

Or drug dealers are like gas stations. Lol.

Wait...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

147 >>thank you for remembering

Seriously the funniest thing you ever wrote.

I still can't see Blackie Lawless without laughing out loud -

YOU WANNA ROCK!?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (ZcsJV)

148 Well the Cubans used something like brain interference on Congressman if I remember correctly some yesrs ago

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)

149 Develop a nude bomb. There was a how to vid with Maxwell Smart

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (9ShUO)

150 what happened with Exxon ? what did they say to Trump in the oil exec meeting ? He did not like their proposal for Venezuela ?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (g47mK)

151
The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.

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The guards were made to look like impotent bitches. If the story is fake, I could understand why he'd tell it.

(He looks pretty good for a guy who had his head homogenized with a super-weapon.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (VWtfl)

152 Smart Military Blog

Posted by: Ben Sears at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (3M71d)

153 Usually they send SEALs when the goal is to just kill everything. Delta brought both of the targets back alive and uninjured.
Posted by: I used to have a different

There is a good joke / story out there comparing operations given to Marines. Rangers, Green Beanies. SEALs and Delta using their typical means and methods.

I do recall that first thing SF does is sets up it's "Club" then works on its fire base...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

154 "They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."

You're a Venezuelan soldier.
If they didn't show up wearing t-shirts and flip-flops begging for money and food like the people you're usually fighting, then yeah, I guess you've never seen a real soldier coming your way before.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

155 No guarantees for Exxon. Risk averse.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (9cHSL)

156 I also have some questions about the Venezuelan SAM trucks, there was supposedly 9 of them, and I saw images of what was supposed to be 5 of them still under cover in a garage or revetement, so apparently the Venezuelan army didn't think air defense was a big thing.
And that surprises me.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (rbvCR)

157 Well the Cubans used something like brain interference on Congressman if I remember correctly some yesrs ago
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Would that be where they gave them money and whores to vote in a pro-Cuba manner?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (ExV1e)

158 The spooks, DARPA, and golly knows who else have some pretty wacky stuff by now, I’d reckon. They were spending huge sums on electronic mind “jamming” synthetic telepathy,, mind reading etc in the 1950s. A lot of media stories in the 90s about “less than lethal” crowd control, area denial they termed it. Some sort of heat ray, that makes folks very eager to unass the AO. And the fabled “brown note”, some sort of device causing recipients to lose control of their bowels.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:55 PM (tM8U8)

159 >>what happened with Exxon ?

I believe Exxon is the least able to handle the type of crude that comes out of Venezuela...not positive, but I recall reading that out of the large players they had the worst infrastructure available to deal with the dirty crude.

But don't quote me on that. It's just as likely they donated more heavily to Kamala and Biden.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:55 PM (ZcsJV)

160 156 Usually they send SEALs when the goal is to just kill everything. Delta brought both of the targets back alive and uninjured.
Posted by: I used to have a different

I hope they send SEALS to Tehran

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 05:55 PM (gDlxJ)

161 @158 which is weird because they were really big in Venzuela, must have been burned bad when all assets got confiscated

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (g47mK)

162 Found it! Peter Doocey, not ScottJennings

https://tinyurl.com/3na7wt4j

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (+mUZM)

163 I question the reality of donkey shows. I know lots of people who claim to have known someone who went to one but it always sounded a bit like, "My gf attends a different school, you wouldn't know her."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

Many years ago they were supposed to be a specialty of Nuevo Laredo, a particularly grimy border town on the wrong side of the river from Laredo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (uWKK8)

164 157 "They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."

You're a Venezuelan soldier.
If they didn't show up wearing t-shirts and flip-flops begging for money and food like the people you're usually fighting, then yeah, I guess you've never seen a real soldier coming your way before.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)
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Bros have never seen a squad of operators wearing panoramic NODs lol.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (5aZAZ)

165 hawkeyes would not be what is used for identifying ground targets
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (yt7Yo)
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Quiet, he's on a roll.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

166 I believe Exxon is the least able to handle the type of crude that comes out of Venezuela..

==

I think the opposite, they were one of the few dealing with that type of dirty crude

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (g47mK)

167 Once bitten twice shy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (9cHSL)

168 We were already overwhelmed. And then they brought the Yoko.
Posted by: A Venezuelan soldier at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

ZOMG! You mean ONT COBs were involved in this operation?! We are a smart military blog!

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (Fsyr3)

169 Do I think the account is real? 50/50.
Do I think we COULD do all that the poster suggested - yes.

I saw things 25 years ago that were jaw dropping...so I imagine with the growth of tech in 25 years, I'd probably see some equally jaw dropping things now.

Thing is, real or not, it doesn't actually matter. All that matters is what the world thinks we can do.

I think we could probably outfit this exact team exactly the way they said...but like the nuclear bombs in 1945, we only had enough for about this many people b/c this crap is pricey and still in testing...did we use it anyway - maybe.

And that's where I am with the story...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (tOcjL)

170 But they didn't use the mythical brown note?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (8CIFn)

171 Also don't fuck with the 160th SOAR. You're gonna have a bad time.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (5aZAZ)

172 BlackHawks (and Apache) are strange. They are loud make no mistake.

But if the wind is going the right way, and they are behind a ridge, you won’t necessarily hear them. It is a little disturbing to see them pop up out of nowhere. At least if you’re a bad guy

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (tM8U8)

173 152 what happened with Exxon ? what did they say to Trump in the oil exec meeting ? He did not like their proposal for Venezuela ?
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (g47mK)

I read a brief synopsis of the situation, and I think Exxon's point was that a whole lot of laws inside Venezuela need to be changed before they would trust investing there again, and no they're not gonna bet on it just because Trump says "You have my word on it!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (uWKK8)

174 >>I think the opposite, they were one of the few dealing with that type of dirty crude

I thought Citgo was the one operating with the most capacity out of Venezuela...but I am completely open to being mistaken on that.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (ZcsJV)

175 this is not even good propaganda, sheesh.
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (yt7Yo)

it is a great story, but the written versions of it don't have any "foreign" feel, and the "translation" still sounds like it was composed in English instead of Spanish.
Then again, it could be a limited hangout, or panic, or the modern version of the German Southwest Africa Army meeting the Herrero warriors.

Still again, I can't find any source for this story in Spanish.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

176 I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.
Posted by: bonhomme

Try watching "Cheaters". You have to take a shower and bath afterwards and you still feel dirty.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (Y8DZL)

177 Lonely P8 floating around.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (9cHSL)

178 you think hawkeyes are sigint and targeting planes? guess that explains the self publishing bit
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (yt7Yo)
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It's a reference to "Animal House," but thanks for the gratuitous ignorant insult.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)

179 I used to think drug trafficking and donkey shows were fake until I met my cousin Tamara.

Also, worst sign language translations of any live local theater event you'll attend. Hands down.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (KHoLd)

180 20th Anniversary Repost: "You're Fired": Donald Trump Grills the Dems on Why They Lost Their "Task"

https://tinyurl.com/4zk9thyz

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (jc0TO)

181 oh, yeah , Citgo

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (g47mK)

182 37 It's possible... When they're doing a roofing job around my neighborhood the Mexican om pa pa music makes my ears bleed...
Posted by: It's me donna

Here it's the landscapers playing the Mexican bagpipes for hours on end.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (abIsI)

183 178 BlackHawks (and Apache) are strange. They are loud make no mistake.

But if the wind is going the right way, and they are behind a ridge, you won’t necessarily hear them. It is a little disturbing to see them pop up out of nowhere. At least if you’re a bad guy
Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (tM8U

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B-2 Spirit is the same way. By the time you hear it, it's waaaay too late if you're a bad guy.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (5aZAZ)

184 He didn't legalize pot.

He had it re-scheduled.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ZcsJV)

Cuz potheads are known for keeping schedules.

Waitaminute...

Posted by: pookysgirl has a family calendar app at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (Wt5PA)

185 Dope dealer savings time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (9cHSL)

186 I bet Vecna and the Mind Flayer are tied into this in some fashion.

Posted by: John Drake at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (GWvJt)

187 Cuz potheads are known for keeping schedules.

Waitaminute...
Posted by: pookysgirl has a family calendar app at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (Wt5PA)
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That's why they had to reschedule it. Again. And again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)

188 When you see the unit guys shoot and move in person you are stunned bye the speed. They are truly on another level, even compared to other ‘’top tier units”. This was the mission delta was made for and trains for, a small group assault and grab.

Posted by: Nevada Dave at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (e61sa)

189 B-2 Spirit is the same way. By the time you hear it, it's waaaay too late if you're a bad guy.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (5aZAZ)
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When you are traveling faster than sound, you will be gone before the sound gets there. Axiomatic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)

190 I would love for this to be true, but it could just be a Venezuelan security guards making up excuses for why they all failed so miserably. ‘Dude, the Yankees had Heechee shit, dude. It was like we were attacked by aliens from the future! Lasers and sonic weapons and mechanized power suits! We had no chance, dude.’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (WWsL/)

191 Well the Cubans used something like brain interference on Congressman if I remember correctly some yesrs ago
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)

The current official explanation is that was a microwave version of a LASER - MASER if you like.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (rbvCR)

192 Pot was a Schedule I, which means no medicinal purpose and addictive. Those qre not true and there's been attempts before to change the Schedule. That's all Trump did.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (+mUZM)

193 I question the reality of donkey shows.
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I can’t speak to that, but I have seen, um, dart shows & balloons, ping-pong balls and other feats of … vaginal …ah, dexterity. I’m not proud of it. It seemed like a good idea at the time

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (tM8U8)

194 A lot of pizza traffic at the Pentagon tonight

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (h/O4U)

195 All of this was for the benefit of China, which is now going completely insane with paranoia and impotent rage.

I think they are playing up the "insider/traitor" aspect to make Xi purge his inner circle even more aggressively and totally destabilize the CCP and PLA.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

196 If the Venezuelans could only have fashioned a rudimentary lathe.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (pDt9x)

197 >>I question the reality of donkey shows.

Oh, they are real.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (ZcsJV)

198 When you are traveling faster than sound, you will be gone before the sound gets there. Axiomatic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)
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The only time I've seen one flying in person was at a sports event where one did a flyover, and I can assure you he was well below Mach 1. It was still wild.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

199 True or not, if Delta is on the the other side, you better have your affairs in order and your web browsing history cleared.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (vzcgi)

200 All you can do if you meet a Delta guy is hand him your wallet and your life. If your wife doesn't do it for you.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (KHoLd)

201 so is this what running away looks like?
I am aware of the reference, but it would not be appropriate were you not disgreeing. so, tell us about how the hawkeye does ground targeting and sigint now? you should share that with the Navy so they could get rid of elint and sigint aricraft
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (yt7Yo)
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Ignored.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

202 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?
Posted by: runner

Legalization to Schedule II or III allows it to be studied for possible medical benefits, ie, cancer patients being able to use THC for nausea and appetite stimulation vs Schedule I - drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (u/kd+)

203 b2s are now supersonic?
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (yt7Yo)
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Stop trying to date me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

204 O saw one at a football game. Not of this world.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (9cHSL)

205 196 I would love for this to be true, but it could just be a Venezuelan security guards making up excuses for why they all failed so miserably. ‘Dude, the Yankees had Heechee shit, dude. It was like we were attacked by aliens from the future! Lasers and sonic weapons and mechanized power suits! We had no chance, dude.’
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (WWsL/)

I suspect that, BUT remember that in war Perception of ability is often more important than actual ability. Everyone in the hispanic world is reading that, and they may not be sure, but they're wondering - could it be true?
And if your enemy starts off thinking your soldiers are 10 foot tall supermen with invincible weapons, you've already won the battle.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uWKK8)

206 Those sonic weapons have to be serious shit. I made the mistake of walking directly across and in front of a bass player's rig during a sound check one time. He was running a folded 18" speaker cabinet with a long throw 18" Cerwin-vega speaker. I don't even know what note he hit, but it immediately turned me into jello and dropped me to my knees, it was like being electrocuted without the voltage. I never experienced anything like that. It felt like I was going to melt into the floor.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (snZF9)

207 And all the tissues blew into the south america, where the women cried for weeks.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (ZRzmB)

208 O saw one at a football game. Not of this world.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (9cHSL)

Why would they have a donkey show at a football game?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (ExV1e)

209 The B-2 isn't even a supersonic-capable aircraft, to my knowledge....

Maybe try not to be such a know-it-all?

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (5aZAZ)

210 Chy-na has to be shitting itself over just how easily the US rolled over all that ChiCom air defense tech that they sold to Venezuela.

It wasn't like "Well, they won, but we gave them a tough fight!" More like "Holy shit, it was like we weren't even there..."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (IG3/x)

211 Pshaw. Amateurs!

Posted by: Linda Blair at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (DsA2n)

212 "They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room."

Trump said he got there but didn't get the door closed.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (vbXSk)

213 I suspect that, BUT remember that in war Perception of ability is often more important than actual ability. Everyone in the hispanic world is reading that, and they may not be sure, but they're wondering - could it be true?
And if your enemy starts off thinking your soldiers are 10 foot tall supermen with invincible weapons, you've already won the battle.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uWKK

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Quite the difference between promoting our Diverse, Gaia-loving Dept. of Defense and the Dept. of War with lasers and crap that can mind-melt you at any range.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (ZOv7s)

214 Another point to consider is, SOG uses the best night vision/xray gear. It can literally see through walls.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (abIsI)

215 Legalization to Schedule II or III allows it to be studied for possible medical benefits, ie, cancer patients being able to use THC for nausea and appetite stimulation vs Schedule I - drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (u/kd+)

the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (g47mK)

216 217.
It was a Raider game.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (KHoLd)

217 I fucking hate Fleetwood Mac*.

*Not Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
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I'm sorry Garrett, but "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" is the equivalent of "Bill Parcel's New England Patriots". Yeah, "sure" Peter Green was in Fleetwood Mac, and "sure" there was something "there". But the New England Patriots are knows for the Brady/Belichick version, the same way that Fleetwood Mac *roared* when Buckingham/Nicks came to town.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

218 Well, I guess we won't hear any more from the New York Slimes about Trump's mental acuity, since he sat down with FOUR of their reporters for two hours of grilling today.

Four on one, two hours. Kamala would have finished a whole liter of vodka by that point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (s5hGr)

219 I was driving near the Goosenecks of the San Juan last spring, not too far from Monument valley and saw a C-130 (I think) flying below me in elevation down through the canyon. I double taked because it didn’t make a sound. I assume they had shut off the engines and were gliding, but I dunno. It was weird.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (tM8U8)

220 Redskin Game.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (9cHSL)

221 I don't think there is any chance that the directed energy weapon narrative is propaganda.

Just like I fully accept that hang-gliding Muslims were beheading infants.

By the way, I'm also retarded.

Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (JNrP3)

222 >>the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.

Did you walk in on your mom blowing her Pot Dealer or something?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZcsJV)

223 The B-2 isn't even a supersonic-capable aircraft, to my knowledge....

Maybe try not to be such a know-it-all?
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (5aZAZ)
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I was replying to the general concept, not specific airframes.

Altitude is also helpful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)

224 225 Legalization to Schedule II or III allows it to be studied for possible medical benefits, ie, cancer patients being able to use THC for nausea and appetite stimulation vs Schedule I - drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (u/kd+)

the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (g47mK)

Opiates and opioids work great, always have. And hi runner. How you doing?

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (pDt9x)

225 This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.
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Havana Syndrome, I believe is what they ended up calling it. It's fitting that the Cubans ended up on the receiving end this time around. What eventually became diagnosed as Havana Syndrome first reared it's ugly head in Cuba with a bunch of American and Canadian diplomats. Since then, China has been documented as using ultrasound weapons in India. And other occurrences have occurred in DC, Europe, and hotel rooms in the States.

I think it's a pretty good bet Russia was behind the Cuba incident (the first one). But, all major powers are playing with the concept now. Only, it looks like the US worked out the kinks, and using it on Cuban bodyguards was no accident. It was a billboard sized message.

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (dIske)

226 n, you are tedious nobody with a bad case of Main Character Syndrome. I changed my apparent mistake -- I guess it was a mistake; you could have told me the plane that would have been involved here, but you chose not to, to draw further attention to yourself -- and now you're just nibbling at AH Lloyd's ankles.

You want attention? Here it is: You're banned. fuck off, aspergers jerkoff.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (1wjle)

227 Did you walk in on your mom blowing her Pot Dealer or something?

===

Are you a druggie or something ? sorry for your troubles dude; get help

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (g47mK)

228 I believe Exxon is the least able to handle the type of crude that comes out of Venezuela..

==

I think the opposite, they were one of the few dealing with that type of dirty crude
Posted by: runner

It was Exxon & PhillipsConoco

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (u/kd+)

229 You want attention? Here it is: You're banned. fuck off, aspergers jerkoff.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (1wjle)

Thank God.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (g47mK)

230 195 B-2 Spirit is the same way. By the time you hear it, it's waaaay too late if you're a bad guy.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (5aZAZ)
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When you are traveling faster than sound, you will be gone before the sound gets there. Axiomatic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The B-2 isn't supersonic. Back in the day it was rumored to be able to get into a jet stream, dial back on the engines and be stationary in relation to the ground.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (Y8DZL)

231
They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise.

My shop is about a block or so across the street from the airport, which also hosts an F15 Air National Guard squadron. The F35s from other units come in about 3-4 times a month and I can always tell when the F35s are here because they are a LOT louder than F15s.

The stealth stuff is really about radars and heat signature, not so much the sound.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (y9nCu)

232 You want attention? Here it is: You're banned. fuck off, aspergers jerkoff.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM

He was not ready to rock.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

233 Oh, the air is so much better now!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (g47mK)

234 I was in court years ago when the B-2 named Spirit of New York flew out of Stewart Air Base and right over the building .It was very loud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (9ShUO)

235 nobody dates the self published

supersonic b2s?
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (yt7Yo)
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Well you certainly won't.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)

236 The only time I've seen one flying in person was at a sports event where one did a flyover, and I can assure you he was well below Mach 1. It was still wild.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

like several of the 29 year olds here, I grew up near an airbase before the sonic boom ban went into effect in the 60's. For us, it was the fighter base at Luke AFB north of Phoenix. They used to crack a couple sonic booms across the city every day at about 1 pm. We lived in a concrete block house at the time (Phoenix wasn't all uppity in the 60's, it was still post war housing mostly) and my mom was pissed, because she could point at a growing crack in the house over the main door that got a little bit worse each time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (uWKK8)

237 Every time a Stevie Nicks song comes on my dog tries to herd the radio.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (m/e4u)

238 The B2 seemed to be gliding as well, and then they fired up the engines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (9cHSL)

239 >>I'm sorry Garrett, but "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" is the equivalent of "Bill Parcel's New England Patriots". Yeah, "sure" Peter Green was in Fleetwood Mac, and "sure" there was something "there". But the New England Patriots are knows for the Brady/Belichick version, the same way that Fleetwood Mac *roared* when Buckingham/Nicks came to town.

If you would really like to sit through a dissertation on the influence of Peter Green on Modern Rock Guitar, I will gladly type it out and post it in the next week or so...

But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made; 1. Mike Bloomfield, 2. Peter Green.

ALL other players who adopted the Burst did so because of the aforementioned players.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

240 249 Every time a Stevie Nicks song comes on my dog tries to herd the radio.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (m/e4u)

LOL Well said!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (pDt9x)

241 Did you walk in on your mom blowing her Pot Dealer or something?
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZcsJV)

Watching my grandmother and my step mom smoking pot out of my half-brother's stash was the second most embarrassing things I have ever witnessed.

The most embarrassing thing was watching my 68-YO step sister and my dad's 74 YO girlfriend feeling each other out to see who was holding. At the local diner.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (rbvCR)

242 Somebody doesn't like high-speed ragtime songs on the piano.

Posted by: Madness. Reefer madness. at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (TbWk/)

243 Altitude is also helpful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H

Not always. -- PAT25

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:12 PM (ExV1e)

244 >>He was not ready to rock.

LMAO

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:12 PM (ZcsJV)

245 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:12 PM (pDt9x)

246 I like Fleetwood mac

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (VE6XX)

247 About... 29 years ago a couple buddies and I went on a road trip. My car. We were staying in SD and decided to go to Tijuana for the night.

A grimy Mexican in a sombrero is yelling out (in english) Girls! Beer! Donkey Show! My buddy goes over to talk to him. My other buddy is uncertain. I am staring up at God literally say 'Why me?'

Buddy comes back over and Mexican whistles up a cab. Told my buddy it would take us to the donkey show. I told my buddy 'Ain't no fucking way I am getting in that cab.' We argued for a bit. I held my ground. I may have been drinking, but I wasn't that fucking stupid

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

248 For those following the incredible Goldie Ghamari's (and Armin's) channel, she got an invite to Piers Morgan's show! Good for her, but.. apparently Fat Yogurt (her words not mine!) is going to be there too (Cenk Uygur...)

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (g47mK)

249 P8 sightseeing in the Strait of Whoremoos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (9cHSL)

250 Opiates and opioids work great, always have. And hi runner. How you doing?
Posted by: tubal

They're also highly addictive.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (u/kd+)

251 My shop is about a block or so across the street from the airport, which also hosts an F15 Air National Guard squadron. The F35s from other units come in about 3-4 times a month and I can always tell when the F35s are here because they are a LOT louder than F15s.

The stealth stuff is really about radars and heat signature, not so much the sound.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (y9nCu)
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I've heard F-16s, F-15s, A-10s and a bunch of heavies (there was a C-17 flying over my hotel at Ramstein and 0600), but had not heard an F-35 until the Kalamazoo airshow and WOW. Serious thunder and the things flips all over the place. Made the F-18s seem kinda quiet.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)

252 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.

We haven't even talked about boobs yet.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (lUFok)

253 holy cow, sharmuta is back, he discovered VPN

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (g47mK)

254 > I may have been drinking, but I wasn't that fucking stupid
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

Your good judgment is probably why you're still in possession of both your kidneys.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (IG3/x)

255 I was just talking with AlextheChick about nobodies on social media who exist to "correct" other people (usually incorrectly).

I mentioned the old tactic interrogators use of saying something wrong to compel a reticent subject to correct them. On the Sherlock show, he noted, "People don't want to tell you anything, but they love to contradict you."

n says I made a mistake by specifying Hawkeyes as involved in sigint collection. He could have actually provided a service by telling me which plane would be involved in that. He didn't. He didn't want to add to the discussion, just impress everyone with his Superior Knowledge, knowledge he would not share.

Anyway, I don't need his bullshit. No one does. There is a kind of person who lives on social media because no one in real life will have anything to do with them, and n is one of those nasty sperg antisocial retards.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)

256 I want to see a B2 pull a giant banner behind it that makes it look like a kid's kite.

That would freak some commies out.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (m/e4u)

257 262 Opiates and opioids work great, always have. And hi runner. How you doing?
Posted by: tubal

They're also highly addictive.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (u/kd+)

Well, there is that. But they work well.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (pDt9x)

258 About... 29 years ago a couple buddies and I went on a road trip. My car. We were staying in SD and decided to go to Tijuana for the night.

I read that as South Dakota.
I was like, damn, that's a drive.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (u/kd+)

259 Fighters doing low level circles might be a bit disconcerting. Like continuous Blue Angels sneaking in behind you at an airshow.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (cS1cw)

260 C5, Y5 now n.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (vzcgi)

261 >> the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.

I mean, we tried heroin.

Posted by: the dandy at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (8l8nW)

262 >>I read that as South Dakota.
>>I was like, damn, that's a drive.

You aren't the only one.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (ZcsJV)

263 I was replying to the general concept, not specific airframes.

Altitude is also helpful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)
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Uh, what? Why would you try to correct me when I specifically mentioned the airframe? At best it's a complete non-sequitur, and at worst you got caught trying to be a pedantic douche/

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (5aZAZ)

264 Wow. Some pretty crazy shit right there. No wonder the military grunts are so stoked.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (W2Pud)

265 Is someone using a bitch ray on us? Calm down, fellas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

266 My Pioneer receiver and Altec Lansing speakers was a sonic weapon back in the day. Disoriented a few of the neighbors but I'm sure it didn't cause any nosebleeds.

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (IlL6s)

267 btw I just read an agatha christie novel (Mute Witness) in which Poirot uses this same tactic -- say something wrong to get a subject to tell you the right thing -- and it's from 1936. I had no idea this was such a well-known interrogation tool.

but you know, if you want full points, you're supposed to actually correct the person and give him the correct information, not just smugly say "You're wrong and I know what the right answer is but I'm not saying."

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (1wjle)

268 hey tubal ! happy New Year !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (g47mK)

269 AXIOMATIC

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (5aZAZ)

270 Isn't about time that we heard from a certain foul-mouthed time traveling sandwich? Or were those days just magic in a bottle?

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (jc0TO)

271 San Diego would seem more plausible.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (9cHSL)

272 After I eat a few bowls of Cajon beans and rice, I too have a sonic weapon that can take people out instantly.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Did you go to Tonypete's church on Sunday? Cause he mentioned a problem with someone stink trashing the bathroom...

Posted by: moki at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (wLjpr)

273 280 hey tubal ! happy New Year !
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (g47mK)

Happy New Year to you also, one of my favoritist people at the HQ!!! It’s gonna be a good one innit?

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

274 I read that as South Dakota.
I was like, damn, that's a drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (u/kd+)
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YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-EEEE-COOOOOOOO?!!!

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (5aZAZ)

275 Anyway, I don't need his bullshit. No one does. There is a kind of person who lives on social media because no one in real life will have anything to do with them, and n is one of those nasty sperg antisocial retards.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)
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Thanks for the top cover.

This is a free-form discussion, not a written final exam.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)

276 >>San Diego would seem more plausible.

Sure.

But your buddy's commitment to see a Donkey Show would somehow seem less impressive.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (ZcsJV)

277 I picked up a lot of Iranian swear words lately.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (g47mK)

278
But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made; 1. Mike Bloomfield, 2. Peter Green.

ALL other players who adopted the Burst did so because of the aforementioned players.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

I wonder what happened to Bloomfield's burst?

Kirk Hammett owns Greenie now, and it's still making music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUI24ZZ4ksA

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (y9nCu)

279 This has got to be the tech we've been harnessing from the Transformers that we are hiding under the Hoover Dam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (XV/Pl)

280 San Diego would seem more plausible.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (9cHSL)

It was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

281 If you would really like to sit through a dissertation on the influence of Peter Green on Modern Rock Guitar, I will gladly type it out and post it in the next week or so...

But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made; 1. Mike Bloomfield, 2. Peter Green.

ALL other players who adopted the Burst did so because of the aforementioned players.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

I had a chance to play the greenie burst before kirk hammet ended up with it. At the time it was owned by the dude who got it from Gary Moore.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (snZF9)

282 281.

Bass-o- Mattic 》Axiomatic

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (m/e4u)

283 Does Delta Force have a directed energy weapon they're using in Minneapolis, that scrambles Leftists' wits and makes them spew diarrhea out the mouth?

Posted by: DaveL at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (9w232)

284 But your buddy's commitment to see a Donkey Show would somehow seem less impressive.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (ZcsJV)

LOL. He was drunk off his ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

285 Uh, what? Why would you try to correct me when I specifically mentioned the airframe? At best it's a complete non-sequitur, and at worst you got caught trying to be a pedantic douche/
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (5aZAZ)
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Dude, I wasn't trying to correct you, I was replying to a comment on that theme and yours was closer.

That's all it was. Agreeing and adding something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)

286 the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (g47mK)
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There are "better: stimulants than caffeine and nicotine, but I'd rather be around someone who drinks coffee and smokes cigars than a meth addict. Maybe that's just me.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (5aZAZ)

287 Bomb percussion can do funny things depending on how it transmits though the structure of a building. It can make you bleed.

Nothing else is a surprise, except the Cuban mercs as palace guard -- so Maduro would send money and oil, and they would send mercs to protect him since he could trust no one else. It explains the money and oil sent to Cuba, which I never really understood.

And I thought the small boat campaign was obvious after we found out about the raid. It made me feel that all the noise over how it was unjustified suddenly sounded very foolish. (and it makes me wonder about the same effect over Greenland, or mabye Can.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (WkpGI)

288 If you would really like to sit through a dissertation on the influence of Peter Green on Modern Rock Guitar, I will gladly type it out and post it in the next week or so...

But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made:
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Yes, and those two reasons are:

1) Gary Moore
2) Kirk Hammett.

Obviously I jest....a little. But the abject adoration that Peter Green gets for...what...3? years in Fleetwood Mac has floored me since the early '80s when hipsters and posers wanted to pretend that they were taking music "seriously". Green's version of FMac did "Well oh Well" and....crickets...and Lindsay Buckingham performed the song better live when he joined the band.

Sorry, I can get onboard with pretty much every single echo of a note that Jimmy Page played on Led Zeppelin I, so its not a question of "age" or "time period". But I'd rather hear Bob Welch Fleetwood Mac on shuffle than Peter Green Fleetwood Mac on shuffle.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (TN0g+)

289
Panama 1989, the US used rock music to terrify the enemy.

I didn't know about that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (Jxa0O)

290 THe video on how it happened is partially flawed.

No C-17 can take off from the USS Iwo Jima.
Madero was taken to Guantanamo Bay, then flown to the US. And I thought he went to NYC, not Miami. He landed in NY State.

So two major flaws. So far.

Plus the overhead pictures show he was taken from his hideaway site inside a military base, not the Palace. The damage seen in the shots is consistent with this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (u82oZ)

291 Wait the CIA was on our side for this one? Funny old world.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (wBaIH)

292 Scanners was a documentary!

Wake up, people!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (dGCAG)

293 276 Wow. Some pretty crazy shit right there. No wonder the military grunts are so stoked.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I think the main reason they're stoked is that military leadership is back on the menu. There is a razors edge on the weapon again.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (vzcgi)

294 Listen, America is a hyperpower, I would expect a hyperpower to have some nifty James Bondian Tech.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (XV/Pl)

295 295 Does Delta Force have a directed energy weapon they're using in Minneapolis, that scrambles Leftists' wits and makes them spew diarrhea out the mouth?
Posted by: DaveL at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (9w232)

Nah they do that all on their own.

Posted by: They leared real good at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (TbWk/)

296 Dude, I wasn't trying to correct you, I was replying to a comment on that theme and yours was closer.

That's all it was. Agreeing and adding something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)
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Cool fair enough. Hatchet buried. Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (5aZAZ)

297 'Muadib' is a killing word.

Posted by: Stilgar at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (Q+gd/)

298 I was in charge of a oil rig near the Oklahoma panhandle when a B-1 bomber buzzed our derrick.

It was certainly sub-sonic, but the roar and the view of the plane arrived nearly simultaneously.

The tower man was massively startled and missed the elevators (tubing clamps).

I believe that derrick was 93' high. The plane definitely banked around our position. I suspect their radar hit on something in their training area that was not "supposed" to be there, so they performed a safety check.

I did NOT have to clean out my underwear afterwards ... so I thought it was an awesome encounter!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (HlyYF)

299 257 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.
Posted by: tubal

Prometheus reference in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (Y8DZL)

300 Wait the CIA was on our side for this one? Funny old world.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (wBaIH)

I know, weird!

They stopped taking shots at presidential candidates, and/or Kennedys long enough to do something that was in their job description.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (dGCAG)

301 >>Why would they have a donkey show at a football game?

Clearly, you aren't a Jets fan. It's a 4 quarter donkey show.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (viF8m)

302 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!

Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

303 >>I wonder what happened to Bloomfield's burst?

Bloomfield left it with a Club Owner in BC sometime right before his death.
He was scheduled to play 4 nights?, maybe...bailed after the 1st night. When the Club Owner finally tracked him down he was back home in San Francisco. Said he 'Didn't like the scene there' and it is reported he wanted to go home and watch TV. Though that last bit might just be an off-hand comment taken out of context.
Anyway, Bloomfield had been paid up front for the Gig and told the Club Owner to sell off his gear to get his money back.
The guitars and amp were sold. The Burst going to a semi-pro player in Canada who later sold it on and it has since been off the radar.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (ZcsJV)

304 Happy New Year to you also, one of my favoritist people at the HQ!!! It’s gonna be a good one innit?
Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

Of course I am, I mean look at these potheads in here...anyway, I think 2026 is going to be better than 2009 !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (g47mK)

305 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How?

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

306 Listening to Minnesota AG Ellison say "arbitrary and capricious" at the lawsuit presser reminded me of Jackie Childs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (9ShUO)

307 >>Why would they have a donkey show at a football game?

Clearly, you aren't a Jets fan. It's a 4 quarter donkey show.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

Please.

Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

308 And I thought the small boat campaign was obvious after we found out about the raid. It made me feel that all the noise over how it was unjustified suddenly sounded very foolish. (and it makes me wonder about the same effect over Greenland, or mabye Can.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (WkpGI)
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Like in so many other cases, Trump was doing many things at once. Zapping the drug boats also flushed out the fake international law types who want to keep failing because reasons.

Blowing up boats also contrasted with the PLAN using naval militia and water cannon. Just so much goodness.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)

309 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.

We haven't even talked about boobs yet.
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I was late getting here--did we cover Star Trek yet?

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (TN0g+)

310 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How?
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

Mmm...crab dip

Posted by: Authentic Sioux recipe at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (TbWk/)

311 The Burst going to a semi-pro player in Canada who later sold it on and it has since been off the radar.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (ZcsJV)

Good chance it's sitting in either dirk ziff's or joe bonamasshole's vault.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (snZF9)

312 319 Listening to Minnesota AG Ellison say "arbitrary and capricious" at the lawsuit presser reminded me of Jackie Childs
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (9ShUO)

Yeah upholding Federal Immigration law is "arbitrary and capricious. ".

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (VE6XX)

313 But the tech we have must be cobbled together from other tech items as the US doesn't manufacture much tech anymore.

I know there are US based electronics companies that build boards and circuts for the US military but the we don't manufacture the sub-components.

Maybe we do really Macgyver sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (XV/Pl)

314 >>Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (TN0g+)

It's not my opinion.

It's the words of the players like Page, Clapton, Beck, et al.

You want to know whose sound they were chasing?

In their words, it was Peter Green and Mike Bloomfield (w/Mayall on their European Tour).

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (ZcsJV)

315 > Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding
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A lot like a 70's Nugent concert then?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (NwnyJ)

316 Most of those spic Cubans and Vezuzus smoke the weed 24/7 so most likely were high as a kite when they turned into pink mist.

Good riddance.

Posted by: Sgt. Rock at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (R/m4+)

317 n

The platform that is not mentioned, but did the heavy lifting on SIGINT is the EA - 18 G Growler.

But there are two to three other USN abilities that also factor into that. OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (u82oZ)

318 The DOJ filed an order with one of the clown judges, I think it's Bonerburger, that "facts on the ground have changed."

Or, less politely:
See here you stupid fuck? The Dept. of War is doing shit you're too fucking stupid to even think about. So when you wrote your silly order telling the President what to do because you knew what was going on? You were just farting sonnets out of your ass, weren't you?
Go back to sniffing your own farts like the retard you are.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (HXT0k)

319 On Led Zeppelin I Page played the Telecaster Jeff Beck gave him.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (Q+gd/)

320 Only secret weapon was our special forces held off until "after" combat operations to I'm imbibe in a healthy dose of Cuba Libres', lol

Posted by: Matthew at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (OdsgZ)

321 >>Good chance it's sitting in either dirk ziff's or joe bonamasshole's vault.

Nope.

Ziff doesn't buy Pro Player Guitars.

Bonamasshole only plays guitars he can buy at a discount and then flip for a profit. A man after my own heart that way.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (ZcsJV)

322 I think someday we might see a certain irony in using focused sound as a weapon. As the ability to target and calibrate gets ever more controllable, it would not surprise me if focused sound becomes a more instrumental form of medicine beyond your usual Ultrasound equipment.

Imagine if you could calibrate and focus sound to destroy cancer cells and nothing else within a body. The same with viruses or bacteria. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments don't discriminate, and destroy other facets of the body. As they stand, they are barbaric. Sound offers a more precise and discriminating option.

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 06:26 PM (dIske)

323 The most embarrassing thing was watching my 68-YO step sister and my dad's 74 YO girlfriend feeling each other out to see who was holding. At the local diner.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (rbvCR)

Is your true name Ricky Bobby?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:26 PM (QkvGw)

324 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How?
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

Mmm...crab dip
Posted by: Authentic Sioux recipe at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (TbWk/)
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Stolen from our ancestors, many years ago!

Posted by: Calypso Louis at January 12, 2026 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)

325 OT: Kammie Ha-Ha was in town today to swear in Helena Moreno (who once interned for HRC) as our new mayor here. All I can say is, she may be a Dem and a major lefty (redundant, I know) -- but at least she's attractive and we won't have to look at that frog-faced former mayor any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

326 You guys are telling me Hawkeye can’t do signals intel? Dudes, he can fight aliens invading earth with just a bow and arrow.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (WWsL/)

327 "I was late getting here--did we cover Star Trek yet?"

Star Trek sucks Vegas donkey balls.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (G+z4C)

328 A lot of war is bullshitting your enemy. More than half.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (xvV+O)

329 How?
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How!

Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (0sNs1)

330 I remember norman spinrad in russian spring demonstrate such a weapon

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (bXbFr)

331 Dr. Krueger invented the weapon years ago.

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (YGRGv)

332 It's not my opinion.

It's the words of the players like Page, Clapton, Beck, et al.

You want to know whose sound they were chasing?

In their words, it was Peter Green and Mike Bloomfield (w/Mayall on their European Tour).
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"Tone" is the sound a guitar, strings, pickups, pedals, and amp make when all of their settings are in place. Those monumental greats could have *indeed* been chasing Green's "tone". But not his playing per se. He wasn't in the same league of player as those chasing his "tone".

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (TN0g+)

333 Nope.

Ziff doesn't buy Pro Player Guitars.

Bonamasshole only plays guitars he can buy at a discount and then flip for a profit. A man after my own heart that way.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (ZcsJV)

I'm too much of a guitar horder. I buy, I keep. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (snZF9)

334 >>On Led Zeppelin I Page played the Telecaster Jeff Beck gave him.

Yep. I believe that was originally a 59 White Guard.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (ZcsJV)

335 Mark Knopfler may own that guitar now. He is quiet about it, but the dude has a lot of gitars.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (m/e4u)

336 But the tech we have must be cobbled together from other tech items as the US doesn't manufacture much tech anymore.

I know there are US based electronics companies that build boards and circuts for the US military but the we don't manufacture the sub-components.

Maybe we do really Macgyver sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (XV/Pl)
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Honestly we do more than is let on, and for good reason. Yes we do buy a lot of components that might have completely innocuous uses and we MacGyver them into things that will F up our enemies. My best gal is in the semiconductor industry and she's like "Yeah, we sell a lot of stuff that go into things used once and once only." and can't say any more. Suffice to say that the chip in your car that makes the adaptive cruise control work also makes certain other radar-enabled things work too.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (5aZAZ)

337 It made them synchronize their menstrual periods.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (YlWIZ)

338 Krieger

Auto cucumber

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (YGRGv)

339 Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, just to make an arrest.

I would think that was part of a greater plan to evict Cuba, China, and Russia from Venezuela. The blockades also reduced the money coming in to pay all the criminal henchmen. It seems obvious that many were compromised - how else could Trump be talking about running the place, without having actually taken it over, militarily?

I really don't doubt that such a weapon exists. Haven't we heard about a similar thing - a microwave weapon - that has been used on crowds in certain places in the world?

What slipped right under everybody's noses was basically the weapon from the movie "Real Genius" that was apparently used in the Xmas eve incident in Nashville in 2020. Did anybody really believe that some guy just happened to park in front of the service entrance to one of the 8 top telecommunications hubs in the US, to blow himself up? A security camera maybe a mile away recorded a beam of light extending up into the clouds, when the explosion happened. Undoubtedly, that truck was loaded with Special Forces operators (who did their thing and left within a few hours of arriving), not explosives.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (hOOi9)

340 NaCly, respectfully, don't talk to banned trolls, they might follow you home

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (g47mK)

341 Probably lose 47 his Nobel Dynamite Prize.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (YlWIZ)

342 A lot of war is bullshitting your enemy. More than half.
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Whatever do you mean?

Posted by: inflatable tanks at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

343 Knock off the Qatar agent Tucker Carlson crap. Makes you sound like Hillary on her rag a long, long time ago.

Posted by: Jerry Carroll at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (RRQTN)

344 >>I'm too much of a guitar horder. I buy, I keep. lol

Sure. But if you nabbed a Burst for 50K (back when you could)...and it wasn't a particularly good one, odds are you would jump all over the first 300k offer you got.

I mean. How could you not?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (ZcsJV)

345 It made them synchronize their menstrual periods.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM

So, synchronized parallel parking is the next Olympic sport?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (0sNs1)

346 Guys! I got this, Cucker is the 12th Imam! They never said he will come from the East !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (g47mK)

347 I for one am glad the military is finally making use of the alien technology they recovered from Roswell

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (REq0p)

348 "Imagine if you could calibrate and focus sound to destroy cancer cells and nothing else within a body"

Focused ultrasound is being used to treat Parkinson's tremors.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

349 359 It made them synchronize their menstrual periods.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM

So, synchronized parallel parking is the next Olympic sport?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (0sNs1)

The transwomen will sweep the medals.

Posted by: Sorry it's transgold at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (TbWk/)

350 Sadly, it wasn't the Brown Note weapon of legend.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (BRvvM)

351 N does not appear to be banned yet. ace is usually a gentler hand on the hammer than most.

You have to be a major league c*nt to catch a ban from him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

352 Tucker Carlson has been read on the Senate floor, guys!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (jc0TO)

353 Focused ultrasound is being used to treat Parkinson's tremors.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

They used something like that to blow up my kidney stone

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

354 SPEAKERS, ..........tonewood"

".......my 1960 burst came from the middle of an ancient mahogany!!!" (facepalm)

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (IlL6s)

355
I can't wait to see how fey the carrier U.S.S. Barack Hussein Obama will be.

Cabin boys or girls all around! Games of "Who dropped the soap?" in the communal showers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (XeTAE)

356 fuck of sharmuta, you are banned , begone, go to TCN

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (g47mK)

357 It's also worth noting that while an alleged sonic weapon was used against the US embassy in Cuba (IIRC), the soldiers attacked with this supposed US sonic weapon were ... Cuban.

Isn't it Trump who's famous for hitting back at people - ten times harder?

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (hOOi9)

358
I did NOT have to clean out my underwear afterwards ... so I thought it was an awesome encounter!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Missed the streak... by that much.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (k9/y/)

359 Blowing up boats also contrasted with the PLAN using naval militia and water cannon. Just so much goodness.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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Yes, but PLAN is attacking military and fishing vessels on the vessels home territory, not smugglers in international waters.

I am more interested if there is some complex knock-on effect of drug money getting scarce in Europe (my understanding is that most of the drugs were coke on its way to Europe.) Maybe he is putting pressure on the corruption there.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (WkpGI)

360 Apparently, the Chyna radar systems were made out of Chynesium.

Posted by: no one at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (qFwJc)

361 N does not appear to be banned yet.

They're using a VPN. The hash changed. Some folks just can't take a hint.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

362 So has Dr. Seuss.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (9cHSL)

363 Speakers, pickups> tonewood

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (IlL6s)

364 Knock off the Qatar agent Tucker Carlson crap.
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Tucker earns the grief he gets here.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (TN0g+)

365 Really competent shooters can go through surprised people like shit through a goose. With modern optics, they will hit with every (semi-auto) shot. So yeah, 20 guys can really stack bodies.

We know the soviets have a sonic weapon they've used against GITMO. So not shocking if we have the same thing, sounds like a greatly improved flash/bang weapon rather than a gun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (xcxpd)

366 369 Focused ultrasound is being used to treat Parkinson's tremors.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

They used something like that to blow up my kidney stone
Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

Shock wave lithotripsy. Pretty cool stuff.

Posted by: Get in the tank and rock! at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (TbWk/)

367 he was banned, but the banhammer software has not internalized his VPN yet

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (g47mK)

368
You call it Maize. We call it corn.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (Y8DZL)

369 Everybody is entitled to their own opinions when it comes to scheduling marijuana, of course, but I'm certain somebody with cancer could care less what you think of their habits, or what makes them feel better even if only slightly.

As for getting good pain medication in lieu of weed, thanks to the OxyContin epidemic it's extremely difficult to get a prescription for opioids these days for most people.

And besides, it's not just about some mild pain relief, cannabis has been shown to help with the nausea cancer patients experience during chemo and other procedures.

This all reminds me of my uncle, who was one of those victims of OxyContin (got his first prescription after a major truck accident in the late 90s) who turned into a heroin addict to get his fix a decade or so later after it proved impossible to get Oxy any longer.

The man was dying of lung cancer, had only a few months to live, and the people around him were complaining that he had a friend come by and hook him up for his last fixes while on his deathbed.

Seriously, at that point, what difference does it make?
You think the dying person cares whether their "relief" is legal, or approved by you personally?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (6ydKt)

370
The Nightstalkers used modified Chinooks

Should have used Kolchaks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (pkeXY)

371 The B2 seemed to be gliding as well, and then they fired up the engines.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (9cHSL)

Got to do that once for an airshow in the KC-135R. Maxed out 250 knots approaching the air field, pull the throttles to idle as you get to the runway and swoosh on by almost silent. Pull back at the end of the runway and climb out until you reach just above stall speed and push the engines back up. Those high-bypass engines were just a whisper as we went by the crowd 100 feet off the deck. Only way you can impress people, really, in what's essentially a 707, unless you can get them in the air and show them a refueling.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (JJOjf)

372
So, synchronized parallel parking is the next Olympic sport?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Synchronized sammich making!

"Let's get a move on there, team!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (XeTAE)

373 385
You call it Maize. We call it corn.
Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (Y8DZL)

I call it a labyrinth

Posted by: Theseus at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (TbWk/)

374 Yes, but PLAN is attacking military and fishing vessels on the vessels home territory, not smugglers in international waters.

I am more interested if there is some complex knock-on effect of drug money getting scarce in Europe (my understanding is that most of the drugs were coke on its way to Europe.) Maybe he is putting pressure on the corruption there.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (WkpGI)
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It's kind of an all-of-the-above approach. Multiple wins.

I'm aware that PLAN is mostly jerking the chain of the coast guard, but letting it be known that the US will not flinch from lethal force is important.

Posted by: Calypso Louis at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (ZOv7s)

375 FAFO m'fkrs

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (XeU6L)

376 There are a lot of tales of where the Bloomfield is and who has had a chance to buy it over the years.

None have been confirmed. Mostly just people claiming the guitar was offered to them. But no new photos have surfaced of it, other than one photo of a luthier who claimed to have a customer come in wanting a refret on it.
Somehow, he snuck a shot of it and it ended up in a back issue of Vintage Guitar.

I talked to Carlos Santana once, about a Dumble he wanted to buy, and he claimed he had Bloomfield's LP. But when I drilled him on it, it turned out to be the 54 Goldtop he (Bloomfield) had traded for the Burst.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (ZcsJV)

377 Ultrasound is also being used to make boners harder.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (5aZAZ)

378 Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (4zAgI)

Tbf, man you can be more than a bit annoying. I am not a huge fan of runner either, but you miffed ace, who is usually fairly laid back.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

379 ***Leavitt may or may not be lying about to sow confusion about what we actually did do in Caracas:
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It also give the brave surviving soldadoes some dignity cover which they will appreciate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (ZwdAr)

380 I am not a huge fan of runner

==

oh, I am sad, stranger on the internet

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (g47mK)

381 I found a womens olympic video on YouTube. They had ironing, clothes folding, and vaccuming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (9cHSL)

382 Trump has a definite style. He is not afraid of risk, but he seems to really savor the risk of public condemnation.

Past presidents are terrified of risk and so they telegraph everything they plan to do and check to see if it will be poorly received. Then they do the least risky operation as if our adversaries could start a war against us if we step over some line. Trump just blows shit up.

All his risk though is in the public relations side of things. He DGAF and it is glorious.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (WkpGI)

383 >>".......my 1960 burst came from the middle of an ancient mahogany!!!" (facepalm)
Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (IlL6s)

But, does it have the 59 or the 60 Neck Carve?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (ZcsJV)

384 It's all an op to fleece you at every opportunity. We can't access your digital shit if you're dead.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 06:38 PM (BSdIE)

385 it was never a secret, not even when I attended momes or hosted the vegas mome, so you have not figured something out there.
Posted by: n

That was a reference to your puss filled little cyst getting banned by a COB. This time it was the boss. I've been around long enough to witness the trifecta. I don't give a damn what you've done. You've never reached moron status. The boss nailed it. I bet even your keyboard can't stand you.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:38 PM (vzcgi)

386 Sure. But if you nabbed a Burst for 50K (back when you could)...and it wasn't a particularly good one, odds are you would jump all over the first 300k offer you got.

I mean. How could you not?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (ZcsJV)

Yeah in that case it would leave vapor trails.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:38 PM (snZF9)

387 I talked to Carlos Santana once, about a Dumble he wanted to buy, and he claimed he had Bloomfield's LP. But when I drilled him on it, it turned out to be the 54 Goldtop he (Bloomfield) had traded for the Burst.

Posted by: garrett
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So, Santana proves once again that not only on stage but IRL that he's lacking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 06:39 PM (ZwdAr)

388 Ultrasound is also being used to make boners harder.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (5aZAZ)
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If actual perps in the FBI and Russiagate get jail, the schadenboners here will require immediate medical treatment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:39 PM (ZOv7s)

389 Fort Smith is an F35 training center, and the Lightning is certainly one loud aircraft. The Polish Air Force just finished a training cycle, and as they grew more proficient there was a lot of "hold my beer" low level stuff going on. Now hosting the Finnish AF.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (gm9Sb)

390 2 and 3 are the same thing, no?

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (kgFPv)

391
Sadly, it wasn't the Brown Note weapon of legend.
Posted by: Sharkman

Sounds like the snot note.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (pkeXY)

392
I'd present my list of posters I'm disappointed in, but my name's on the top.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (Y8DZL)

393 Generalissimo Guinea Puerco reporting for duty!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (YlWIZ)

394 @390 garrett-same thickness as Pages shaved 59'

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (IlL6s)

395 >>So, Santana proves once again that not only on stage but IRL that he's lacking.

You didn't hear it from me...but, he's kind of a douche.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (ZcsJV)

396 Nood. Nick Shirley.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (ExV1e)

397 I talked to Carlos Santana once, about a Dumble he wanted to buy....
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A question and a comment: Have you ever played thru a Dumble? I haven't. I've read that since they were individually built that there sound can be all over the place because there wasn't a set of "specs" that they were chasing?

Comment: I've never gotten people's fascination with Santana. I've heard others describe his in-concert experience thusly: "You can tell he *wants* to play fast...without actually acquiring the skills needed to actually play fast. It gets old...quickly."

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (TN0g+)

398
Kids' hockey brawl at Hershey, PA this weekend:

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/01/10/
video-of-wild-hockey-fight-between-youth-
players-during-ahl-intermission-goes-viral/

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (XeTAE)

399 About... 29 years ago a couple buddies and I went on a road trip. My car. We were staying in SD and decided to go to Tijuana for the night.

I read that as South Dakota.
I was like, damn, that's a drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (u/kd+)

So I wasn't the only one.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (b3PBu)

400 Scrolling through the comments, it seems the consensus is that the sonic power of Mike Bloomfield's Burst will confuse and then subdue America's enemies. And if they doubt it, well FAFO.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (0bjKf)

401 The Brits were fascinated by American blues. I've always found it kinda tedious. I like Kiln House and Bare Trees but don't care much for the Peter Greene era. Do like later day FM although I wasn't much of a fan at the time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (+mUZM)

402 >>garrett-same thickness as Pages shaved 59'

I saw that guitar when it was at the PRS Factory in 1987-8. He sent it in to get the neck duplicarved for the PRS he used on Outrider.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (ZcsJV)

403 People are now making AI South Park episodes that are much funnier than what's actually being shat out of Colorado nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LQD-_Cq5O8o

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (hI/De)

404 >>A question and a comment: Have you ever played thru a Dumble? I haven't. I've read that since they were individually built that there sound can be all over the place because there wasn't a set of "specs" that they were chasing?

3 of them.

The aforementioned Santana 'Dumble' and 2-One off Models of the Steel String Singer.

All of them were really fucking impressive amps.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (ZcsJV)

405 Tehran is out of food. Shoot to kill curfew after 8 pm.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (9cHSL)

406 There are reports of the soldiers wearing special armor and protective gear.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (tV890)

407 I saw a reference the Growler.
Loudest jet I ever heard was the Prowler. What, an extended A6?

Posted by: MkY at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (q6tQZ)

408 Though, I would not pay what any of them went for.
They bring crazy money.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ZcsJV)

409 Now hosting the Finnish AF.
Posted by: bill
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Crap. All I got were Jordanian officers training on C-130's at Dobbins AFB. I have to admit that watching them practice short field landings on the rough between the runways was entertaining.

I never was certain that they weren't reversing the props before touchdown.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (XeU6L)

410 I saw that guitar when it was at the PRS Factory in 1987-8. He sent it in to get the neck duplicarved for the PRS he used on Outrider.
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I was a huge Page fan back at the time. And I thought the Outrider album was a missed opportunity. He should have picked a singer and tried to cultivate a "sound" out of the experience. Perhaps it could have been more than a 1-off if he had done so. But I had also recently seen him perform live with "The Firm" and I realized that the Jimmy Page that played on Led Zeppelin I wasn't really available any longer.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+)

411 @410 garrett-yeah he was playing a PRS in Reno where he beefed it off the front of the stage drunk as a skunk. The Firm tour

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (IlL6s)

412 There is a third reason for all of this: FEAR. Displaying this type of technical advancement and sophistication puts all the bad guys on notice. It's just a subtle flex - in a fight the U.S, can bring things to bear you can't even imagine.

Meanwhile in Russai they are covering tanks with garbage to prevent them from getting killed by $50 drones.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (tV890)

413 It gets old...quickly."
Posted by: Crusader
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He parleyed one popular album into a career.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (ZwdAr)

414 Future wars are going to happen faster than a human can adjust.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (tV890)

415 The 160th Aviation Regiment, Night Stalkers, Blackhawk helicopters do have specially developed blades. They are not totally quiet but considerably muted compared to the normal issue chpper blade. I would imagine that their CH 47 also have the same technology.
Thank God for our Special Opns.

Posted by: Sergeant Major at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (uJZXh)

416 365 Really competent shooters can go through surprised people like shit through a goose. With modern optics, they will hit with every (semi-auto) shot. So yeah, 20 guys can really stack bodies.

The best thing - practice. These guys are shooting at the range every day and twice on Sunday. For years. You don't go on this mission unless you are a top-notch shooter. Couple that with advanced optics, tactics, and excellent guns - unstoppable.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:54 PM (tV890)

417
Those YouTube videos are great. Watch the content!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (Jxa0O)

418 How can the federal government "invade" and U.S. state?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (tV890)

419 Obviously I have no idea. Do I hope this tale is true? Yes, I do. I want the world to fear the US military.

A few years ago I remember reading about the Rod of God and other weapons...the ones they admitted to having. Now there are probably more weapons with power unheard of and less collateral damage to others.

I read of one targeting one man in a busy, populated market somewhere in the ME. He was there and then he was pink mist. No other damage. Just here one minute and vaporized the next.

Therefore I believe this Clancy novel.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (WONhk)

420 I wish the news and CIA analysts and military analysts would STOP broadcasting and showing HOW we tend to pull off military strikes as then they will be ready the next time and our guys will DIE. Make the enemy "do the hard work" of figuring this shit out on THEIR OWN DIME. Need to enact WWII Loose Lips type SHUTTIN' YER YAPPER!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (LKMDZ)

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