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Nothing a couple hundred billion of forcibly directed infrastructure spending wouldn’t solve! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s the excess of cash involved in speeding current offers combined with limited supply. There is an influx of buyers relocating in the face of higher property taxes in high cost areas and COVID. Essentially it’s caused a bunch of people with good equity to enter much less expensive markets. Other problem is lumber costs shot up massively, and now builders are slowing to minimum work just to keep their teams employed but they can’t build the houses they contracted for at a profit, much less can they engage in new property development. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Along those lines... every aircraft the military has with a GPS based navigation system capable of dropping bombs within close range of troops, but not certified to fly into an international airport. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

-That ability to incorporate some form of stand off day/night sensor both for navigation and targeting. -Organic designation capability (or even just as a section having a buddy/shooter capability). -Employment and fielding of any form of standoff ground attack capability. You can dismiss it but half the airplanes in your list of contemporaries the Tornado was on the ramp with in desert storm enjoyed that ability. Even the A-7 which was supposed to be retired and literally held on to so it could go on the Midway class carriers that couldn’t handle A-6 had enjoyed a stand-off land attack capability since the Vietnam war. The Intruder, Hornet, Strike, 111, all of them had those capes during night 1 of DS. Every the F-14 which in no way was ever considered by the Navy as a ground attack plane would enjoy them before Tornado, having Demo’d a PGM night attack capability in 1995. GR4 wouldn’t meet that standard until 1997. As I said, it was a sturdy airframe but it was woefully behind its NATO peers in development of what are now standard systems critical to the use of air power in any modern conflict. And that continues to be a trend with Typhoon. At least it’s not a CF-18 though... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

For the opening salvo of the Air Campaign the Fin was flying an extremely low number of sorties (2%) while experiencing roughly 25% of the Allied air losses. This was entirely a combination or tactics vs threat driven both by the limitation of the platform (optimization to low level Euro campaign entirely) with no organic PGM capability in the GR1 and the requirement of those tactics/capes to put the airplane right into the most dangerous regime as far as threat. And there is absolutely no comparison between Tornado GR1 and the IS fielded 111s at the time. GR4 developed into something similar, but that wouldn’t come until later. 111s didn’t have to go find another Vietnam era plane to truck around 1 of 2 experimentally developed pods to designate for it so it could get back into the Air Campaign effectively. That’s the problem the Tornado always suffered and what as others have said Typhoon suffers now. The RAF will be in a conflict with a sturdy enough airframe but what always seems to lack is a 5-10 year gap in capabilities that it’s peers on the Coalition Ramp already enjoy. I get that there is something to be said for unified euro political alignments in military procurements but honestly they keen going into fighter programs with the Germans and Italians like we haven’t seen this not work out before. Shoulda/woulda/coulda if anybody had a chance to get on something like Raptor it was England. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For the entire 4 years of the Trump presidency has critics and talk head representatives on any number of press sources have attributed statements directly to the president that didn’t happen or were taken completely out of context to construct false statements. Nobody in their camps complained or called them on it. Guess what, the bar was permanent lowered. You can blame the lack of editorial integrity by the press when permitting false statements selectively to align with their greater political narrative. They had no problem bold face stoping or interrupting the office of the Executive often rudely to “correct the record.” So it’s obviously got nothing to do with attempting to maintain an honest record as the 4th estate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Also despite that it is the largest market share of viewers in the room... absolutely no questions from those people of the network starting with F. Man it’s almost like they are afraid of Fox News. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

My facial hair turns a color of red that doesn’t exist in Nature except as a way to warn other species. It is epic and it is terrifying. Look like a Swedish porn star from 1978. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

At this point I feel like it would be a better investment for the military to start creating us all new identities vs trying to protect the old ones. I’d like to be Randy Randerson. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t even think they’d need to go that far. With everybody’s exposure to cell phone social messaging failures, it would be to easy to just start selectively targeting key personnel and then posting decently produced fake sexts to their spouses or racist/sexist/what’re likes and retweets via their Instagram etc. a country with a tech apparatus like China could just purposefully your collections capes and sharing the PII of critical players so they have the constant other things to worry about. State sponsored computer terrorism. You wouldn’t even need to necessarily tie it to a particular exercise or objective, just start going after all the military personnel we invest money in and cull the herd of talent through frustrations caused by it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cyber is going to be the Blitzkrieg of the next war. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah, we’ve suddenly woken up to what those of us in the survivability and tactics sections have been screaming about for over a decade. There is no actual plan to buy Spike, it was just to prove possible the theory that a 64 doesn’t need to live/launch with line of sight half way in the WEZ of every modern RF threat. They were using it because we (the worlds only super power) lack stocks of a missile better than cold warrior veterans like AGM-65 or AGM-114 since we have comfortably demonstrated that’s all you need to kill a D-bag with a shovel planting an IED or riding a moto in the desert. When you look at the war stock of what we will go fight a peer with, and compare the Pk of the frontline R model Hellfire against a T90 or 72 with modern ERA and God forbid working Arena APS on it the numbers start getting scary. It’s probably a good thing we are pulling the Volcano mine systems out of the warehouse and revalidating our TTPs for it (another relic of the Cold War). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Harpoon and Hellfire haven’t cut it for the peer fight since 2003 and yet here we are, still buying.... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

1. Our society and the greater whole of western nations have an extremely short memory on anything, much less the will to actual do something about changing our relationship with China. 2. When the original evidence to this theory propped up last year (checkout the SIPR side of things) it was widely criticized as nothing more than a Republican fabricated ploy to wag the dog and distract. So yes the critics and talking heads that kept up that narrative need to be held to task on them spinning it as a narrative. We have more than enough people involved in fixing the problem, we don’t need to solely focus on that and let China exercise their soft power influence in the WHO and scrub/secures any existing evidence while we diddle and wait. If this is indeed what happened what they did makes the Soviets and Chernobyl look like not a big deal.

Some of the very same people sitting at the desks demanding answers from Pentagon and Defense contractors on “why does X cost so damn much” were sitting in their making decisions that made this process happen. Nobody for 1 second holds the names of people up with a D or R next to their name that decided to fold a 4.5 Gen Harrier Replacement, a 5th Gen Viper replacement, and the Navy JAST program into a single platform. As jacked up as letting people 10-15 years removed from tactical relevancy in acquisitions branch decide “what we need,” it beats the hell out of elected officials blindly pulling levers in decisions because of campaign promises or lucrative back door deals. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just a few points of perspective on that movie... 1. Actual COL Burton was a moron (look up some of his other Sprey-acolyte work) 2. The Bradley development went nothing like what is depicted in the movie (to include the imagined Israeli narrative) 3. The Brad has served longer in the Army than the Jeep, and is loved by anybody that ever crewed them about as much (particularly the Cav Scouts with the M3). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m O+, along with my mother and sister and It kicked all our asses on the second dose, so I don’t buy this blood type rumor going around. Might as well start a reaction rumor to astrological sign while we are interneting Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are few things more damaging to the self image of the fiefdom D-bags out there than somebody with nothing left to lose. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I spent 4 years living in Italy. They can send their food and their women to whatever theatre and that would be magical, but somehow some damn fool thinks they should bring “combat power” to eat ramp space and force cap. Not to mention having to watch Speedo-suave and his Plumber palls try and out creepy leer at the hot Brigade surgeon who just wants to do her CrossFit in peace. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They also refused to wear anything but speedo pants to work out in our gym. That may have contributed to the shortage of sterile wipes for COVID. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They can’t/won’t fly in the dark. Keep in mind these guys and an NH90 utility helicopter were the on call CSAR for all of Northern Iraq during the fight against ISIS. This was the reason my task force kept an air reaction force (82nd Platoon and 2x CH-47s) on dedicated stand by during the fight. We were honest in our summation that the Italians literally contributed nothing to the mission other than building us all a nice coffee shop in Erbil. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That’s another funny/hypocritical part of this whole thing. Like we had to listen to the 8 years of tropes and jokes on GW basically being a distracted kid in a day care whole Cheney and the other evil capitalist corporate men ran the government from the Shadows... Now the same people peddling that it’s simply impossible that Biden is just a propped up face man for the people actually running the government. Like for a group of people in one political reality it’s possible, in the other it’s insulting to even describe. And we just switch who gets to feel what as the letter next to the name changes in office. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wesley Snipes playing a Dictator/General is by far my favorite part of this movie.... the whole “story book time with child soldiers” had me nearly piss myself. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Oh don’t worry, we are still F’ing with soldiers at unprecedented levels. For instance “quarantine” in a literal warehouse during movement to theatre with no food/showers/etc for 36 hours waiting on the C-17... the crew was in the hotel at Rammstein. Hooray we prevented COVID or something. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

See this is what I’m talking about with command level hassle, I’m already seeing reversals and levels of risk acceptance changing for quarantined troops. Like we have an upcoming exercise and since everybody is conus coming together in this some groups are requiring X while other personnel are doing Y. We’ve got a wide disparity of who needs a finger prick, who needs their brain scrubbed, and oh if your double vaccine with no symptoms we will just ignore anything all together. Commanders are feeling emboldened and approving policy based of a set of completely arbitrary made up standards which is a nice change from everybody afraid to make any decision under the SECDEF level because of Croizer’s “public execution.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk