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All the money to Dark Eagle. Arstruc just posted today and that’s basically what it says. As a non nuclear force hypersonic offer a seat at the table, particularly when we already own the air defense and the rear area security side of things.

If I had to guess…. Like all the other aircraft we have that can deploy a weapon within feet of a point on the earth, but can’t be trusted to fly a GPS approach. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Life is about trade offs. The easy counter to this is what kind of ground footprint required when we are talking about expeditionary basing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh all his critics on the media and political circles are beside themselves. Nevermind they loved Obama swearing a couple weeks ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

NYT reporter already with news of it being exactly that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, somebody with a big brain tell me the dollar value of having your pacing threat opponent staring at all that tech and equipment it’s spent all this time amassing and wondering if it works. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Dare to dream… This would be great considering all their staffers are having to “work from home” the last 36 hours or so. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s because we mistakenly thought the Afghans could read… I mean TV signal is just TV signal. And it’s really easy to out broadcast your opponents propaganda source when your opponent signal tower is a bent pile of burnt metal and you are orbiting above their capital with impunity. It’s funny that people on the other side keep posting videos of Tehran like “the lights are still on!” Yeah… we wouldn’t want you to miss anything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jesus… This is like a Master level course on how to conduct multi domain warfare https://x.com/i/web/status/1935406006344822975 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What it should do it remind a lot of our Intel people, and more importantly “Theirs” that Air Supremacy is still achievable and our quiver of options may be just as brutally effective. 96 hours to full and total disintegration… if I’m a Red commander I’m not thinking how quickly and how much can you do across a body of water under that kind of a time table. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think the day the F-35 has an actual airplane to its credit, they’ll wish more than anything that it hadn’t. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is anybody else secretly hoping the Iranians manage to get just 1x jet in the Air and have it square off with a 35. And then the 35 gets 1x more Air to Air kill than the Raptor…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Until the Hezbollah missile threat was gone this was never on the table. Lebanon being destroyed and Syria falling was a shaping operation to allow for this, otherwise things in Israel would be far uglier than right now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah but he’s been doing that for years. Dude is just trying to position himself as the Karzai of this situation. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Real or not, Israel has done more to accomplish defanging the regime and its proxies in the region over the last 12 months than we managed to accomplish in 20 years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think you missed the important part of his post… both of them… who cares about an oversized lake Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah but we can build and launch at a rate they can’t thanks to things like Elon. So while it would suck, that’s an attrition fight they can’t match us in. People in skill positions are a lot harder to make. All bets are off if they or anybody else go the “if we can’t have it nobody can” route and just set a few nukes off in low Earth orbit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I find this only slightly less obnoxious than all DCS gameplay videos being grained up and shared as footage from the Ukraine-Russo war. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Over areas that would only be permissible with tacit approval of the Sunni states in the region that get something out of this. That’s probably the biggest part of this not being discussed by critics of Israel and the current administration, because this shows the Abraham accords and other normalization efforts were far more useful than publicly acknowledged. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Also any number of the high altitude persistent glider platforms that could function as relays. If a big wing drone can sit up there for 30-72 hours to function essentially as BACN, it can probably do other things with passive or active sensor systems. Seeing what some of the new multi spectral cameras paired with AI can do, I’m starting to wonder if Radar isn’t going to be displaced in the level of importance it plays or at least be much more of a codependency to other methods of tracking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

With the demonstrated capability to do point to point tight beam large datalink, ask this question… What do you lose if the manned awacs gets shot down. Not in terms of money but in terms of personnel. And how deep is that bench? How quickly can you regenerate that, and where are you stealing from to do it. This is the same survivability discussion going on in the ground. Put the commander in a position to commander, but we can’t replace whole staffs if they get fragged, so we have to distribute/harden/extend/efc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, however nobody was confused that you may or may not be holding cocaine legally. That’s the premise with highly regulating a commercial substance, same reason while criminals can get hand grenades or fertilizer, they can’t just walk into any old shop and go and acquire it, nor would an attempt to buy 1000lbs of certain precursor chemicals go unnoticed. If drones were turned into a highly regulated item, the guy trying to walk one to a sporting event would stick out pretty well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is definite application and demand for super heavy lift capacity in the commercial sector, but probably in the single digit numbers I would imagine. I’d be curious to see what the economics on return of some production run requiring massive up front capital for so few airframes. I can’t imagine that return on investment is gonna be something that comes soon enough for all but the craziest people with money. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Every unit that did this is a T in “perform expeditionary operations,” on the METL…. We actually executed work at transcom and locally doing rail head ops…. You understand we are demonstrating the ability to move our heaviest ground forces and have them execute on the other end of that move right? 1-17 Cav is one of the flyover units, and that is literally their last hurrah before casing the colors and disbanding, so what did that really cost us? Look if I can March in the Dothan peanut festival parade, we can damn sure put some effort into celebrating the Army’s 250s birthday. Let’s compare the price tag on Tdy and equipment movement of this to say, the Dayton Air Show. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk