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Because it is a flying pile of Poo! There are so many issues but the ABM community has been abused for so long they jumped at the first girl without a mustache who paid attention to them. Wedgetail is 20 year old technology mounted on a 49 year old design. The 737 has been engineered to the max extend of its potential thus Wedgetail will have a 20 year old radar flying in the mid 30's. Epically dump for SOOO many reasons. Boeing underbid to get the sole-source, within 12 months they announced they were $400M over and needed help from the govt. The Boeing 737 line has a 10 year backlog and even using National Defense priority, they can't retool fast enough to make Wedgetails fast...our Allies are SCREWED...they are at the end of the line, even behind purchases by other airlines. South Korea is divesting their Wedgetails which should tell you something...you should see their performance on a hot summer day. I can talk about it now...my previous company submitted the same time as Boeing with a proposal to put a brand new radar on a Bombardier that would start at FL47 and step climb to FL51, 12+ hours of endurance (unrefueled), the same number of crew stations as Wedgetail...the detection physics alone moving from FL33 to FL47 are staggering. We submitted an 800 page package with 400 pages of engineering documentation from tests and other work we had done on the Bombardier platform. We received a reply ONE HOUR LATER - not technically viable, the sole-sourced to Boeing the following day. I'm sure they reviewed in depth our input. The system is not screwed, it is corrupt and broken and the ABM community is going to get EXACTLY what they deserve...warm poo.

So you are saying there is a chance....I used to think that it would never happen, I live in a nice place, very low crime, one or two murders a year that are almost always domestic...until six months ago when we had a home invasion robbery about a mile away. I would rather prepare for the worst and be wrong than have it happen and be unprepared so I invested a little time and effort to at least think about it. Also, as we posted in another thread my area has an increased awareness for retired SOF folks...there have been other indicators outside the memo released by SOCOM a few months back. Especially when we were still in Afghanistan and Iraq. We had individual crew dogs and their families get calls at home from overseas...the caller would state the name and address of said crew dog followed by a threat. I've gone back and forth on the shotgun...yes they hit hard but throwing 8 large pellets around the house has both good and bad consequences. The arrangement of my house puts my son's room on the opposite side of the house but inline with the interior exit to my room (I also have a door out to the pool deck). I have of all thinking a Beretta M-9 (I can hear the laughs), in a fingerprint lockbox under my bed. I can roll out of bed and open the box within .69 seconds. I have big hands and the M-9 is a big gun, so easy for me to grip. For some reason I can drive nails with that gun....drives me nuts but I am more accurate with that than any of my other pistols. Maybe all that USAF training paid off? My son is off in college now so with just my wife and I the calculus changes. From there I am five steps to my closet and a Beretta A300 which holds 9 in the tub and one in the chamber plus six in an attachment. The bandolier is mostly a joke, my wife bought it for me so I have it hanging with the A300. I will likely keep my new 5.7x28 with an integrated can in the hit bag if the ATF ever fixes the new system (14 days and counting). If I make to my office and my big safe then it is on like Donkey Kong.

Literally no one is doing that. In fact the answers to the realpolitik question are arguing against it. Did I miss something in the middle there? I am arguing in good faith. I bring up two different scenarios because of the way the people responded to them. It's not about Biden. It's about different yard sticks being used to measure the actions of different presidents while people declare they are being objective. Allow me to rephrase these two situations more circumspectly: - The US president, with no prior warning, unilaterally re-establishes US foreign policy concerning it's defense of a non-treaty nation against the US's biggest military rival on the planet in a moment when that rival is making political and physical threats that it will finally do what it's been claiming it would do since the 50's and retain Taiwan. All while China's president Xi is known to respond very poorly to threats that may make him appear to lose face. Moreover this is all happening at a moment when that nation is military very active and the USA has finally completely it's withdrawal from Afghanistan and is decidedly not ready for military action in that venue yet has military forces in and around the area and has for a very long time. - The US president makes brazen claims about wanting to have control over a semi-autonomous allied country/landmass that belongs to another allied country who has already set the precedent of selling the US land in the Atlantic/Caribbean. All while the US has no real reason to threaten this because Denmark has historically been very amiable and arguably one of the US's most steady allies, even going so far as to pay for infrastructure changes that the US requests. This blustery idiotic exchanges is set in a military environment where the neither country has much military footprint involved, and the US has neither the political, military, or legal justification or capacity to invade/occupy Greenland. Both are poor situations. I'm not addressing the follow-up on either situation. We do not need NATO. We have a vested interest in a peaceful Asia. Which is worse for the USA? My personal analysis is that people are putting the current exchange about Greenland on the top tier of existential problems while they simultaneously downplayed an event that literally could have led to a conventional exchange of arms over the Taiwan straits. To me, Taiwan was us poking a bully nation that was/is looking for any excuse to respond. Greenland in political theater the likes of which almost every president has conducted and amounts to siblings fighting with no real threat of actions. More to it, this is Trump's MO, and has been for his whole political life. I was in a NATO staff when he threatened to pull the US out if the allies didn't pay what they said they would. It was a bluff and everyone knew it. All the nations in that stuff literally laughed about it. Most countries didn't pay and the US is still in NATO. This is how Trump operates. I disagree with it. I think it's detrimental to his purposed. I think it's not how nations should interact, but I can't change it. I can just recognize what it is and what it isn't. We're not going to invade Greenland, so maybe people should stop acting like it's the end of the world that the USA is finally acting like a superpower again and demanding to be treated as such. (sidebar, i'll be curious to know what's happening in the background right now that no-one is paying attention to because of the Greenland noise...that's ALSO Trump's MO)

I have not had an issue with cycling on my AR with 300BO. The issue with subs for home defense is the hollow point functioning properly. A higher end bullet will really help with that, but you just can't go buy whatever no-name brand hollow point sub and assume it'll work properly. I bought some cheap ones during the ammo scarcity a few years ago because that was all I could find. I shot a pig and it ran off and was never recovered with virtually no blood at all so I'm 99% sure the bullet never opened. I've shot and tracked a lot of animals and this trail never had any hope at all. Only a couple specks at the impact site. If that were a person, there's a pretty good chance they'd still be in the fight after that one hit. Of course, you can and should keep shooting without pause until the person is on the ground and that'll help mitigate the bullet not doing quite as much damage as it should if it doesn't function. Even after experiencing that bullet failure, a suppressed 300BO AR would still be my first choice for home defense.

My buddy has one of those. Great gun. With this particular purchase the focus is on the frt, and what gun will be the most fun with it. I don't consider the FRT to be anything but a toy for lots of manufacturing and legal reasons. Truth be told, this is my second choice. The ultimate gun for an frt would be a Thompson 45, but I am yet unaware of anyone making that adaptation. It's got a bit of a hard on just thinking it's that gun with an frt and a drum mag 😂🤣. Depends on The gun. On some you have to swap out the spring, but on others like the MCX rattler and a lot of the newer guns, you'll have a valve that can be adjusted at the front of the gun to change the gas pressure. Suppressors are great, but you're missing out if you haven't been using subs.

300BO with subs and suppressor. Ballistically similar to 45ACP at short range (superior at longer ranges) with less recoil than a blowback action. Hopefully allow me to talk to my wife and kids and cops immediately afterwards without temporary or permanent hearing damage.

I just watched this video on the PC-24. It does some pretty heavy lifting in advertising for the PC-24 but dammit it does make me wish we had these to replace the T-1. I would have loved to tried landing on SPRO type fields, grass fields, compacted dirt, etc. This could be adapted into a syllabus that really gets everyone ready for real world scenarios where we might be island hopping or landing on unprepared fields after a hurricane/earthquake before the Air Force spends more money teaching this in their MWS. I know this is about the budget but if the training came first, this would be a great trainer.