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7. These things carry a robo-copter

Reply to gejohnston (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 12:22 PM

Jan 2013

that doesn't work, but not to worry. They're paying Lockheed $2.8 billion to develope a new, improved version. Projecting force in the South China Sea is probably necessary to maintain morale among China's neighbors. Just one of the burdens of Empire.

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