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I see you’ve Boeing’ed before… “Hey guys here’s version 6… massive improvements and upgrades over 4… sorry about taking away the ability to enroute RNAV.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In a world where we can fly a drone from the back of a van wearing FPV goggles over a satellite network somehow we can’t figure out how to see out the ass end of an airplane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve known more than a few people who faced and felt repercussions of what was the interruption of ROE/MISSION in AFG mostly. A lot of it was just nit noid lawyering on the tape to make sure their pillars were met before they were excused for doing what the ground force asked for during the post surge phase of Obama era. A couple people had careers crushed… one I remember had to basically be sent out of country because somebody wearing a silver bird wanted a pound of flesh. Somewhat different but then again if you look back at 91 gulf war there are some discussions of early strafe runs that very quickly we’re ket with a 3 star level KIO. I don’t doubt that will always be part of war for us. “We want you to win, but make it easy to put it on camera while you do it,” kind of mantra. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The Romeo and the Lima 7 have both downed aircraft in the 100-300 knot threshold. Some rather recently, and the Lima is still using the gas based control system vs the Romeo with the fully electric articulation of its control surfaces. Against a dynamically maneuvering target it’s probably got no terminal endgame just with how small a control surface it has for the missile mass, but against something with predictable pro nav it can handle cross ranging velocities a lot higher than anybody expected. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

By the time a 4th location has an airliner explode and burn on the runway it would institute a ground stop that would last days. We need to seriously think about how ready to escalate to mass casualties any opponent would be with us. 1-4 airliners full of injured people would overwhelm local response at any major metro area… for tens of thousands of dollars you could neutralize air travel across a continent if you were so bold to chose that as your method of delivery. Shutting down Honalulu, Narita, Ninoy Aquino for 72-96 hours would be a hell of a problem to solve while we don’t make positive movements to solve the other big one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Another point to the idea that booster money may be more important to this new era of college football. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOR7QnxgQLq/?igsh=MTB3YmMwZ2t0cDNkMg== Basically what I sent to every Gator fan I know. As dumb as it’s gotten for them, I still have more respect for them than the Bama people trying to take a victory lap off last nights pee wee football team they played against. I especially like the ones calling for targeting or unnecessary roughness on a kicker making a tackle but ignoring their guys going lights out against a guy when they were up by 60 pts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Spend 30 minutes with the JTF-North guys down at Eagle Pass…. You’ll very quickly come to the conclusion we were doing TF3-10 in the wrong place. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Same point was made the other night on ESPN. Talk of firing the current Alabama couch and what his buyout would cost per contract, turns out when your boosters aren’t making oil or Fortune 500 money and your fan base largely shops at dollar general, you can’t afford nice things. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Hey Vlad check out my Raptors… they don’t have drywall screws in their wings.” There was more 5th generation air power on that Ramp and in the Air over that exchange than in Putin’s entire Air Force and he knows it. This was a reminder that not every NATO entity is full of smoke, maybe rethink the way you looking at Latvia and Estonia. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

God it’s funny to watch people froth over the Fox News guy after spending years defending the previous Ass Clown… Who was an Assclown as a COCOM commander and an Assclown as a Division commander, but somehow wasunquestionably “qUaLiFiEd” for the job. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you’re an Army aviator on first assignment to 2nd CAB, you will be immediately offered to extend and progress right away, or self identify as a one year guy, in which case they do the minimum possible to move you along. The Army has asked for years to make this happen and spent piles of cash to build up post to facilitate making it a command sponsored assignment. The fact it’s happening is a shock to nobody that remembers briefings from 15 years ago about where Korea was headed. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Sorry, that’s 7-10 Rods/second Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

As we further democratize participation in the lower tier of airspace (which is growing exponentially in users thanks to sUAS) we’re gonna have to accept that basing air traffic control off methods developed in the 60s are no longer optimal. I say that kind of stuff out loud in a room full of dinosaurs to blank stares because in their minds voice comms are perfect and nobody has ever had to miss/wait on critical information passed via a single comm exchange while things are moving at a minimum 35-50 meters/second. Dynamic airspace management, digital predictive modeling, and visualization changes are the only way we really move this forward. Anything else is a bandaid at this point. There are company’s out there that have already demonstrated the capability to be expanded, but it’s stuck in program management hell of convincing some GS civilian who hasn’t been in air traffic control for over 15 years that technology (like radar did before) will change the way we safely manage airspace, only if we invest in it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh don’t worry, we initiated a scramble to field tablets and stratus that also don’t solve the actual problem, but can be briefed to leadership as, “did something.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Complete side comment. Can somebody from AETC world send me a PM with a POC at the 479th FTG at Pensacola? Trying to put some forward thinking people designing training efforts at our school house in contact without it getting continuously sidelined or hijacked. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The US manufacturer will immediately sue them and say they need to develop something in house that works half as well and costs 3 times as much. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Low RCS tanks (conformal or drop/otherwise) have gotta be on a roadmap somewhere. If not we’re just playing lip service to the IndoPacific problem set. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There’s always OnlyFans. The same people telling me it’s ok to make fun of Texans seem to be the same people telling me that sex work is real work, so she should be all set. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is an interesting conspiracy theory that his identity and placement/funding was entirely created to allow for future US government exploitation and control over his clients. Essentially a CIA “kompromat” of placed world leaders and economic stakeholders. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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