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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

-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