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I mean, so is Hellfire (or Maverick and Griffin for that matter) and we have no limit on the amount of money we keep pissing into that river. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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We would have been out of Afghanistan last month, had congressional Democrats and Trumps few republican opponents not written it into Law that he couldn’t be the one to pull the plug on this waste. Congrats Joe, you ended the war by literally letting us sit on our asses for 7 extra months before the C-17s started moving. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah let’s be honest but the C-130 is the turboprop timeline version of the same shit we did with the 707. It wasn’t that there was a perfection of that airframe to do a role, it was that there were literally so many of them nobody cared that somebody wanted to take one and try something with it. And now because like the 707 series it’s literally doing “all the jobs” nobody is going to replace the damn thing because as an aircraft developer you are trying to replace more a family of systems off one airframe, not just an airframe. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m just laughing because it’s obvious communities aren’t really talking to each other to build a cohesive strategy of support… The guys going deep (STS) need all those big theat rings to go away… How many times have you heard a SEAD/DEAD guy make the comment of “don’t send me… send a SEAL team and slit that SA-XX operators throat….” Those SEALs get there in Black Helicopters….. Those Black Helicopters are gonna need those MC’s to be doing something other than futzing around as the 5th string of JASSM shooters, especially in a conflict where the Tyranny of distance is more in effect either because a whole lot of Ocean, hostile ability to target your support zones with SRBMs, or combo of the 2. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Without some sort of direct support attempt to make specialized catwalk scaffolding or reinforcing the fuselage for structural platforms capable of holding 400-600 lbs top mounting engines like that would be a MX nightmare. It would make any part or component not single hand carry size a major manipulation to move on/off the jet. This is definitely one of those cases of engineers and the people that work on what they design not talking to each other, which is no surprise for anything coming out of Europe to anyone who has owned a European car. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stumbled across this article touting new awesome high intensity fight capabilities and this thread immediately put into perspective the complete disconnect between the right hand (future tactics and capes development) and the left hand (actual line units managing limited time to train what the other hand made). https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40958/mc-130j-commando-ii-simulated-launching-a-pallet-of-cruise-missiles-in-mock-strike-mission If there isn’t/aren’t enough tails, time, and aircrews to even support normal mission requirements while also training for the future high intensity conflict, what the hell is this except projecting a not real capability in the hopes it scares some Chinese intel guys into briefing it as real. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The last 18 months or so the “real wars” have really been expensive 100+ plane pretend wars anyway so can we really call one a priority. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah I’m saying an F load of reevaluation on what is a tangible and necessary mission for training and what is a particular COCOMs effort to present its self as important needs to occur. Having cool names attached to “_____ package” if scenario X were to pop off in every AO we could operate in briefs well, but it doesn’t resource it’s self just because some staff made a CONOP of a plan for the unlikeliest but scary contingency. Its not a sustainable concept. Outside of SECDEF or POTUS level movements, most of those fancy cool guy groups are historically a waste of efforts. More to your point, continuing to resource those packages takes away from actual assets needed by units both in the fight or actively training for the peer conflict so they can support over employment of resources at a location because nobody is prepared to tell a 4 star, “make your contingency plan work within this given set of resources.” We can’t keep pissing away resources like money, personnel, and tails grow on trees. It’s time to stop acting like every 11 hours there is a dirty bomb in location X that needs to be handled. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

There would be something to be said here about maybe scaling back the number of “Break glass in case of ____” packages that tie tails away from the actual fights/requirements we are in. Watching the retrograde in Afghanistan tear a swath through all the “just put something on the calendar” training events that didn’t need to happen is pretty humorous. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You have leaders of key formations within SOCOM fielding questions like “why don’t you have more African Americans in your organization.” Real talk... that was flat asked of the Seals, and when the command master chief pulled the national statistics on swimming ability and how key that is an early discriminatory factor on anybody, not just blacks people he was basically ignored. Showed them the numbers and how they line up with national demographics and was full stop ignored. The problem was obvious to the people asking the loaded question, it was a built in racial bias, and the final representation of racial demographics is then used to justify their position of the military harboring institutional racism. These are the same people screaming “why aren’t their more female and minority generals” while failing to understand that the intake from start to finish on a General Officer is 30 years. We only started letting women into certain positions within the military capable of fielding a decent population of Flag rank officers 20 years ago. Combat Arms (the majority of Army/Marine upper echelons), 3 years ago... Its gonna take some time to see what they view as an epidemic of old and white men taper off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The internet has allowed what we’re otherwise hidden bits of insanity to group together into movements. Flat Earth is the best example of something completely absurd gaining enough traction as to almost call it a popular opinion. 50 years ago if you believed the Earth was flat you either knew to keep that S*it to yourself or you were crazy and homeless. Now you can connect to a whole group of idiots who believe the same dumb ideas as you. Hooray for technology. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We’re you an MP/SF in another life? This just strikes me as the kind of blatant ridiculousness of arresting people for doing 5MPH in a 3MPH zone at KAF. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

2003 there was a power outage across a swath of the Greatlakes//Canada/NY region of the country as the result of a software bug in a single company causing a cascade across the grid. Some people lost power as little as 2 hours, others didn’t get it back for 4 days... People were sleeping on roofs in certain cities because it also happened to be the middle of August. You don’t think a cyber attack couldn’t achieve that or greater?

It’s an excellent movie as a dark comedy satire. It’s a terrible movie if you watch it thinking it has any kind of historical accuracy. Burton was a loon, not a hero. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I guarantee regardless of whatever they call it, they will make endless rules to protect it from any outside influence or risk to its existence. Good luck landing any more scientific studies within 400 miles of the “existing pool of biological mass.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If that dude sitting their with his head up his ass is still alive, fire him. Holy hell dude. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“First they Killed my Father” It’s on Netflix, and while it’s a 2 hour absolute bummer of a movie it is amazing as far as historical docu-drama about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. As a father there were moments in that movie where I just had to stop because you see this perspective of events from a 5 year old little girl trying to understand the insanity going in around her and her family, and it’s incredibly humbling. It’s based on the events of an actual family and the survivors from it, and other than “The Killing Fields” I’ve never seen anything so in your face about the reality of what went on there. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We are currently having that fight in the push for the mobile mission planning system in USASOAC. Every time we brief ForeFlight somebody will bring up AeroApp, which is an immediate identifier to discount all their other opinions. If you have ever actually tried to employ AeroApp you would know better than to ever bring it up in conversation as a suitable product for use. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Electric cars predated the common usage of internal combustion engines. Fact is one technology progressed in development at a far outstripping pace while electric motor generation and batter capacity/storage duration couldn’t ever dream to match it. And even with that, we were still plowing fields across the country and moving stuff by horse well into the mid 20th century. Batteries are literally just catching up, more due to the general tech industry shift from personal use electronics than from Elon moving the needle with electric cars. Some of us remember NiCad batteries and how crap they were. It still can’t deliver across the spectrum of expectations IC engines are expected to perform with economy of scale. You live in a country supplied literally by urning dinosaur bones in the form of diesel vehicles that move your stuff from one location to another. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

M/CH-47... no de-ice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s the other 300 billion.... See you gotta spend money to make a privately owned company that aligns with ideological interests viable to the general public. You can’t just assume that technology can fund its own development. *sarcasm* Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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