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What's wrong with the Air Force?
- Gun Talk
The liberal utopian dram playing out in Canada....Despite 97.5% of Canadian citizens thumbing their nose at this new law, their dear leaders are sending the Royal Mounted Police door to door to collect your now illegal guns.- Gun Talk
Odds they completely FUBAR this. Hurlburt was one of the first to allow service members (and retirees), to bring weapons on base. Current rules require you keep it in a secured location in your vehicle. If you've been through the front gate in the morning (I assume most bases are like this), the back up and proximity to Highway 98 created the perfect L shaped ambush set up. Additionally, the memo addresses the thousands of uniformed personnel who work at the Pentagon, stating that the building's police force — the Pentagon Force Protection Agency — shall also apply a presumption of approval to all personal-carry applications. However, the memo stops short of allowing personal-carry within the walls of the building. Rather, it states that the Pentagon Force Protection Agency must allow fair consideration for Pentagon personnel to "store a privately owned firearm in a vehicle on the Pentagon Reservation," pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations. For those who have successfully completed a sentence at the Pentagon (sadly, I did two), you know how difficult the Pentagon cops can be. Random bag searches and on more than one occasion I was hassled over the length of a pocket knife.- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Tactical Tanker
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Kid Rock "Fly By" - Hegseth Steps in - "Carry on Patriots"
Maybe I missed it, thought this would have been posted. Hegseth steps in: Pete Hegseth Swiftly Lifts Suspension of Pilots Who Flew by Kid Rock’s House: ‘Carry on, Patriots’ I hope this doesn't turn into a slippery slope. I know a T-38 pilot at Edwards is currently facing an FEB for flying over his house at 200' and doing an aileron roll over the town.- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Gun Talk
It does, but you no longer have to pay the $200!- The Next President is...
Epically funny and scary at the same time, a glimpse of what the current DNC wants to bring to America. My first thought when some of them spoke was "this can't be real"....but it is! Lectured on how they hold their "equity card"...this is the modern Democratic Party.- The Iran thread
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- Concept aircraft
- The Iran thread
- The Iran thread
- Laguardia commuter versus fire truck
Brother in law is a Deputy Chief of police and I have ridden with him on many occasions over the past 30 years. Even with a green light he checks when blasting through an intersection. You bigger point it valid, this is a terrible set up with the runways...numerous opportunities to break the chain of events and a lot of blame to go around.- Laguardia commuter versus fire truck
It is a tough situation, stepping back what do fire trucks do when responding to a ground emergency...they have their lights on, they have the right of way but so they blast through a red light without looking? The situation is terrible all around.- The Iran thread
You are looking in the wrong place, Tomahawk is not the best game in town because they are old, outdated and EXPENSIVE ($2.5M-3.5M each). USAF in particular has shifted it's standoff munitions strategy and is finally putting their money where their mouth is. Multiple wargames focused on China showed the U.S> needs roughly 10X our current stocks to defeat/deter China They have three phase approach with a new class of "affordable, low-cost munitions”: the Extended Range Attack Munition, or ERAM, and two variants of the Family of Affordable Mass Munitions (FAMM). ERAM entered production just 14 months after the first contract was awarded. There are currently eight companies in flight test on the Low Cost Cruise Missile (LCCM), with Leidos (Black Arrow) and Anduril (Barracuda), leading the fight. LCCMs have a target price of $100kl-$200K thanks to 3D Printing. Lockheed Martin entered the fight late but they are making progress. The FAMM program was fully funded by the Big Beautiful Bill with $650M to acquire 3000 munitions. Audndril's approach is a family of cheap missiles. Smaller Barracuda M100 is slightly bigger than a Hellfire, can be launched by an Apache and has a range of 85NM. The M250 is about the same size as an AMRAAM and has a range of 200NM. The M500 has a range of 500NM with a 100lb warhead...basically a VERY cheap JASSM-ER. Black Arrow has entered its second year of flight test completing a CRADA with AFSOC which has successful launched multiple missiles out of an AC-130J. They can fit 90 in an MC-130J and the AFSOC commander has openly talked about launching them from the SkyRaider II. The idea is focused on China but has applications for other theaters. A flight of four Skyraiders can pop up from a dirt strip 500 miles away, launch 40 Black Arrows from an attack vector no one saw coming and disappear before the munitions even hit. A flight of four MC-130s can flood the straights with hundreds of cheap missiles to counter a threat. Finally changing dogmatic thinking, even if it was cost that forced them to do it. Aundril is well into flight test as well, this video is over a year old.- The Iran thread
Basic air doctrine: Air supremacy is the highest level of control of the air, defined by NATO and the US Department of Defense as the degree of superiority where the opposing air force is incapable of effective interference. Drone and TBMs don't represent a threat to our ability to operate in their airspace. The Iranian Air Force is done. Iranian Air Defense is no longer integrated and is now operating at tactical/local (reactionary), control. It doesn't mean the enemy can't fight back.- The Iran thread
Ummm I certainly understand ROE and such. I just don't see the current situation (Air Superiority bordering on Air Supremacy), calling for high risk tactics. This is not BANZAI to the merge because the Iranian hordes are going to bust through. Unless a CIA team was in extremis or a TBM with CBRNE was about to fire, it is tough to justify being at 2K doing a strafe run in country right now.- The Iran thread
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- Gun Talk
Mainly because of this one issue I will never vote blue...They won't give up until they change the Constitution. Latest law soon to pass in Rhode Island bans most semi-automatic weapons with NO GRANDFATHER clause. Possession after Dec 31 means you are committing a felony subject to a ten year prison sentence. Sell out of state or surrender citizen.- The Iran thread
I am VERY surprised folks are operating this low over Iran. Odd angle endgame, looks like a strafe run... perhaps chasing a drone? Whoever he/she is they need to play the lottery after that near miss. Ash_-_vcdgf555_vcdgf555_Here_s_a_new_video_and_it_s_super_clear_it_looks..._XCWuuk.mp4- Laguardia commuter versus fire truck
Was always a huge concern in the Gunship, especially in our Hot Cargo area which could be very dark and isolated. I always briefed the crew, especially new folks, a plan to move away from responding firetrucks in case of an emergency. On more than one occasion a crew dog was nearly run over by an emergency vehicle. - Gun Talk
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