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And the hits for these jackasses just keep coming… https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/israel-detonates-hezbollah-walkie-talkies-second-wave-after-pager-attack I guess this says a lot about taking somebody chanting death to you for decades seriously and ACTUALLY doing something about it other than posture. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Going with this, an interesting history for development of AIM9 as the underdog program that went on to win in the end… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think you guys are focusing on the wrong metric in the totals vs totals discussion. What they can put in the field is not the same problem set as what they can command and maneuver. When this was started the Russians showed a complete lack of command and synchronization above the Battalion Task Group level (hence having essentially 4 axis doing 4 separate things and failing in all of them to achieve victory). The Ukrainians weren’t much better off but they only needed parity to achieve an effective defense and they had plenty of depth to surrender in the defense. That was an Army that had effective small unit weapons but lacked the thousands of armored and artillery pieces that would later be given in aid. Last year we started seeing the effective growth of Brigade level staffs in the Ukrainian Army, starting with their pushing back and regaining territory. It was largely limited to a few specific brigades. Since then we’ve seen a wider group of effective command and staff officers gain experience and now are fielding enough combined staff effectively to start thinking about Divisional actions (exactly what just happened in Kursk). There is a deliberate force generation going on to take advantage of this capacity, but that takes time to train and field and will probably be another 6-9 months before another wave of action is attempted based off all the troop-company level training that needs to be done so you aren’t just issuing impossible orders to conscripts. The Russians on the other hand are not really getting better, they still effectively can chew for ground by just throwing bodies at it, but it’s why they can’t present multiple dilemmas effectively across the broad front. Remember May when they were so sure they were taking Kharkiv? Yeah they don’t either. So when people say “the Russian victory is an eventuality” it’s really saying if the Russians are allowed to fight the war the only way they know how, eventually they win… at a ridiculous cost. The Ukrainians don’t have to allow them to fight that way, but they do have to be equipped and trained to change the name of the song that’s playing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For 3.5+ years the “CEO” has been an active puppet and nobody has yet to explain who has been actually running the company during that time. But those same asshats have now explained who the new CEO needs to be. Yeah sure let’s jump on that boat like it’s any form of decision by the populous. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Danger here (and a big reason why we put guests in the front) is the controls can be decoupled from the mechanical tubes into an emergency fly-by-wire system in the case of a fight for the controls. You also can’t start the engines in the front. The system is calibrated so that the back seater rolls their controls out first, but it’s not exactly something you can test outside of the torque settings of the mechanical roller decoupler. So even if he just froze up in the front it’s possible to take the aircraft mechanically away. I’m not aware of any instance though where that has saved an aircraft. Even still, this is absolutely on the IP unless something insanely malicious occurred. I thought my opinion of the Utah Guard’s AH unit couldn’t get much worse, but somehow here we are… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is not abnormal except for the part where he crashed attempting a landing. We routinely fly Brigade O6 commanders and GOs and even conduct gunnery with them. This was a failure on the part of the LtCol for trying to prove something and more the W5 being dumb enough to not call it off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Put that shit on Trade-A-Plane just to spite him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was over the weekend. So dead from something “quiet” like a stroke say end of work Friday, found Monday when everybody returned to work. That’s very plausible in a no social friendships/connections society we’ve morphed into. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I’ll go one deeper there… Is our military industry overly aligned with a cross oceanic theory underlying every system we buy left over from two world wars fought abroad. We’ve never really produced a modern domestically tuned weapon system. Our military is entirely away game oriented, sometimes to a negative when that away game is too focused on a particular theatre (ie look at INDOPACOMs grip on everything right now). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Of course he thinks that, he’s a first year grad student (with a shit haircut). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think it’s more likely they don’t feel their efforts are public enough to ensure the next Star/assignment of choice over one of the other important people. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It seems leadership and money people confuse the concepts of size/line of effort and don’t understand the criticality of effort or the phases of conflict it exists in. It’s like the Gulf War I example, conventional fixed wing aviation was undoubtedly the first main line of effort on night 1 of the war. But without AFSOF, a handful of stealth aircraft and Army attack, that line of effort would have waiting indefinitely for that window to open. That doesn’t even mention what was being done by SOF to shape the battlefield for the air war started so all that ass could get to where it was needed. Those big metal shapes at specific Nav points didn’t emplace themselves, SOF did it. Everybody wants to go see the rock concert, but nobody wants to acknowledge the bus drivers and crew that get the band on stage. They may not be the one making the music, but it’s pretty damn important to the concert happening. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

But that’s part of the problem with this bill…. Long term stabilization and the wider DOD mission is not in its self “war.” The number of engineering assets that reside in the guard which are specifically critical to any post reconstructive get things back in order mission would prevent this from ever being possible. We still have guard units supporting missions in places like Kosovo and it’s been decades since that was active combat. Similarly the entire concept of out of support missions becomes this grey area that would be impossible to satisfy everybody on. “Hey doc you’re mobilizing to go augment the hospital in Spain/Germany/etc because we are deploying that units personnel to combat.” Or look at all the support personnel sitting in logistics hubs and theatre SSAs because while we conduct the war in a particular COCOM we have requirements outside it which also funnel through there. How does that count or not when the combat is clearly in _____ and all these people on orders are not physically in the combat zone. How many echelons removed does one have to be from active combat to now deploy abroad, because you’re taking that decision away from commanders to decide. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I know you live in this weird world where the term, “total return on investment,” doesn’t exist, but yes in this case your original statement wasn’t in need of clarification it was a bold faced misstatement of truth. You implied we simply gifted them weapons (in this case F16s) like allowing a person to simply walk in and out of Costco with a full cart and not pay. That is in no way representative of what is going on with these aid bills and it’s damn sure not an accurate depiction of a bunch of allied air and ground forces paying premium dollar totals to accelerate replacement of the systems they are donating to the Ukrainians. To say nothing of the investment in our own industrial capacity when most would agree this rollercoaster will get worse before it gets better. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well for one, we didn’t give them F-16s… The Vipers they have are from Denmark. And yes the Danish are buying F-35s under FMS contracts (which lowers the fly way cost for us), so it’s not just a bunch of rich industrialists winning here. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

One evacuated to Baghdad for a femoral injury. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Think of how much better prepared we will be for the denied PNT environment… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They aren’t the only ones… It’s insane the number of military aircraft with dual keyed GPS/INS that somehow we didn’t find the money to get approved in the national airspace. We also deliberately leave Copter RNAV points out of DAFIF so even if we were approach certified the points aren’t contained in the non corruptible database. “Oh cool we can enroute RNAV in VMC… thanks I was pretty much doing that anyway it’s called flying.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The DNC used stock footage of Russian warships during its convention. Google is a bitch to the poorly informed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Go get on SIPR and talk to your intel about the grey conflict area activities going in across NATO executed by Russia. Pretending that this is just a fight between them and Ukraine is dangerously dismissive of active actions short of full scale combat they have levied against our NATO partners (and US citizens) stationed around EUCOM. And the media and leadership is complicit in non making it a bigger topic of discussion as to “why support Ukraine” or “why is this our problem” to their citizenry. The direct combatant part of Russian actions to rebalance the scales the in the relationship against the west isn’t going well… it’s stalled on the battlefield in Ukraine largely because of continued support for this phase. That is deliberate action by NATO before it becomes a shooting war where the only opponents left enjoy article V status. The non direct combat portions (which preced combat) though are very much in full swing in the region in NATO countries, particularly the Baltics and Poland. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All part of the 3D chess strategy Putin is using. https://apple.news/AAuFDjRRhRKyggVc2Jhy06w Man look at him weakening NATO. We’re gonna be in so much trouble…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Those Harbor Freight fasteners are cheaper for a reason… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well if it’s in a Meme it must be true… https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-do-papers-allege-trump-epstein-took-part-sexual-assault-1857863 Way to fall for deliberate manipulation Jack. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk