Lawman

They saw the writing on the wall before it happened by a few days… I don’t think they are getting this stuff back without some serious thought on the new leadership in town getting a say so. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Given the condition of the ones in use by parent nations, the feasibility of some kind of buy back would have been immediately dismissed. Most in service outside California Fire were decrepit. The Phils were flying them sans most of the instrument panel and the ejection seats until they lost a few in quick succession and at most had 3 PMC aircraft in 2014, shortly withdrawn from service afterward and replaced with a few that Thailand wasn’t doing anything with. They aren’t in much better condition. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sawyer should have been getting a game ball at the end for that interception, except the couching and play calls for the offense was so stupid as to piss away downs trying to run up the middle and “dominate the run.” The one and only offensive drive that the team owned the field was a no huddle tempo offense and it was almost all in the air…. That tells me leaving these guys to think to long as couches is the problem, not the players getting 2 yards on a rush instead of 3-4. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somebody let Ryan Day know we hooked him up… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s been all over the local news how expensive those tickets were going for. People paying Super Bowl money for a rivalry game (because if their is anything Aggies have it more money than sense). I’m on the way to Disney world right now and the tickets were cheaper. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

On the line today…. Bragging rights, and Ryan Day’s mortgage. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They need to change their constitution to allow for a military partnership necessary to achieve anything. The previous president was in no way gonna go for that. Current one probably won’t either as she follows lot of the shadow she came up in. Unfortunately too much political favor to be made opposing Trump to actual work with him even when it would be for their end benefit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I was gonna say the better comparison would be the jackasses stateside telling us that war over there wasn’t our problem and what Germany was doing wasn’t really that bad. Luckily some of our grandfathers didn’t gargle Reddit level stupid coming out of a coordinated IA campaign. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

He’s not even going to pretend to acknowledge all the “mystery fires” and sabotage or the no kidding Russians that have been arrested carrying out actions in Europe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Aussie cardboard suicide drones are an interesting take on asymmetric warfare. https://www.forbes.com.au/covers/innovation/the-aussie-cardboard-drones-hitting-russia-in-massed-attacks/ The people that think they can take on the world with this stuff are clearly in the dark, but the idea of some SOF team able to dump 30-50 of these on a major industrial center or airfield and then vanish is pretty terrifying…. Also why we should start doing more to model REDFOR SOF in our war games because it’s going to happen. Imagine some random cargo ship with a couple connex’s of these sitting in random ports just waiting on the word to create casualties at random. Say in a random no-name place like…. Shreveport… nothing important there right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Geo-fencing is not a new concept, and we discussed it way back earlier in this thread. Though with a total post count in the single digits I doubt this is any sort of normal post to just suddenly join in the conversation with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A lot of Trump’s proxy voices have said as much but I’ve never seen anything official come out of his statements. Basically it’s portrayed as being the carrot or a VERY big stick to negotiate with. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hey guys look! somebody who was in he Minnesota guard that actually did deploy to a combat zone. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s serious how the members of Old Guard take that duty. I’ve seen several enter the Army warrant community in aviation and they will all tell you their time as a tomb guard was one of the must solemn moments of their lives performing that job. Bystanders also have no idea who is standing there performing the job because they intentionally don’t wear rank, which permits anybody to include very senior personnel to perform the watch as a Sentinal like the General did. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

PAO winning the war… We’re not sure who the hell they are are fighting for or with but they sure as hell are wining in their own minds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mods…. The forum is doing that weird shit again.

Yeah I feel like the Navy is already way ahead of putting an LO buddy tank capability in the field. I feel like there has to be a technological way to get around buddy drogue and making something of smart buddy boom. To me, teaching that unmanned system to follow and refuel off a big wing is easy. If we can teach helicopters to land in the dust unmanned (and we have) teaching it to get on the boom or into the basket is easy. The hard part and really the reason anybody would consider some massive big wing AR platform to be needed is the fact the Air Force doesn’t have a probe drogue refuel system outside its rotary wing… Ok, so a boom needs to happen on an already LO aircraft.Somebody look at programming the B-21 in a less capable mission equipment airframe? Maybe we come up with a package to bolt on a set number of airframes out as tankers after the fact and just buy 20 more? Now it can tow its buddies close, because let’s face it there is nothing really super tactical about a refuel orbit or track. We’re just trying to not get pushed out 1500 miles from the mainland in INDOPACOM. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

What exactly is the end goal of a stealth Tanker? Like whatever follows the 46, let’s make that airline derived bitch Low Observable? That seems kind of insane since by their nature most of our big wing stuff is just adapted civilian aircraft. And if it’s small scale to extend range like the way the Navy does with the SH, that feels like a buddy tanking option would be the more achievable extension operating from some forward AR route and the big tanker operating from sanctuary. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Somebody is waiting for you to say you don’t need your money…” That was a very smart statement made by the Army Aviation POE after the decision to cancel FARA didn’t net any improvement to the budgetary constraints is the departments we sacrificed it for. I’m about 60-70% sure FLAARA is going to die both due to mismanagement of its program and to other mouths at the big table of money seeking to shark it for their own needs. Right now Fires in the form of rockets and loitering munitions and Sensors (ie UAS/SUAS/etc) are the big shiny amongst our competing requirements. And there is no defined way for an ear marking of requirement to requirement funnel of money. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s kind of the weird half factual argument I’ve seen. Like the guy primary’d… what he didn’t do was go debate. Those aren’t the same thing, but some people want to use it as a qualifier for whether a candidates name can appear on a ballot, but if that’s the way then change the rules for next time. As much as I didn’t want to do 4 more years of nuclear level chaos energy in everything political, dude is elected. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I went to a very liberal college and I’m usually not that petty with some old friends over how these things go, but the condescending attitudes they’ve had on why it happened…. So I sat down and fired this off into the room like a flash bang. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s really too bad that with all the existing war stocks that we could give up to the Uke’s to fight, the one capacity that they could use (engineering) is one of those mission sets that just doesn’t have a depth in anybody’s inventory to hand over en mass. They are finally figuring out effective maneuver doctrine and practice, but with only so much capability to conduct a penetration (sts) and breakout they can’t get the full mileage out of that ability. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s absolutely in all the theatre commanders “top 3.” And I’ll say they are absolutely motivated and aware of how far they have to go to be what they need to be. Like lines of effort it is directly discussed not “NATO” interop but Poland specifically and it makes sense when you look at potential and demonstrated commitment. They also have economics to take advantage of that most of the legacy Euro partners don’t. Poland has the potential to become the most powerful land force in Europe and potentially a joint force though id argue that takes a second decade to achieve and doesn’t run concurrently. Problem is they’ve got a decade of culture shift to do to train and equip that force, and until then they really aren’t any better prepared to do anything against a flood of tactical groups coming across their border than the Ukrainians were those first few weeks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Neither the Russians or then Ukrainians have executed a general mobilization. They still have chips to play in the form of people even with the casualty rates they have taken. What they won’t have is the industrial capacity combined with the personnel necessary to execute any kind of sustained positional warfare. So should they want to execute follow on seizures of land post “Victory” in Ukraine, they will not only need to solve those problems, they will likely need to make an entire shift to their military culture to execute a Decisive maneuver victory over whoever they choose to go after next. While that’s easier to do against the Moldovans or Latvians than say Poland. They are still European. Or even scarier, they could just go sit and wait until we find ourselves occupied in the other side of the world and then pick their moment. Seize parts of NATO territories with minimal fight then wait for the Spanish and Italian forces to dither about whether they are willing to fight Russia over some Baltic farmlands…. Prove the alliance hallow without us making up its main body, then carve off chunks at a time. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk