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No doubt about it, but that's the other crux of the "get a better jet" argument. A lot of the countries that would be looking at this vs say a bunch of old Blk 30/40 vipers aren't eligible for FMS vipers because of the Leahy amendment. They can still get stuff from DCS or our foreign competitors but would you think going from a 230-250mph training pipeline and experience base straight into an afterburner equipped 4th generation fighter is something those countries could realistically do? I think they'd plant more planes trying to monkey through learning them before they ever even got the chance at any real useful training. Realistically it would be far easier and safer for them to go buy a python or similar missile off the commercial market and figure out how to make it work on their easy to fly cheap to maintain jet. Otherwise they gotta go whole hog with virtually no lead it.... like the Phils are doing with FA-50.
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It still beats the option a lot of little Island countries currently have of driving toward the engagement in an Alfa jet or similar and then trying to hit the guy with unguided rockets. I know those on the site used to what we have would be disgusted by the idea of a "fighter" that would have trouble keeping up with an ME-262, but in all seriousness this is an airplane built for countries who are putting stingers on helicopters because they can't competently expect any sort of air defense. So anybody that can bring a missile better do it, because it's the air equivalent to a bunch of barely armed settlers circling wagons to repel the Indians. Any while yes the fighters from big countries with big missiles would eat its lunch it would at least give pause to something like the a Heliborn air assault or paratroop force being put in with a bunch of Hips/Hinds. That's the more likely reality for those nations.
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I think people are simplifying this as flip flopping because they have no idea how much we "need" Iran right now. We've got multiple thousands of coalition military in immediate proximity to Shia Militia Groups who take their marching orders from Iran and would love to target US soldiers. We start taking a hard line/pushing back against Iran, or move the Embassy in Israel, we will have green on blues in a whole new way. It makes sense that we would just suck it up for the time being. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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You mean like getting a glass cockpit and modern navigation in what is essentially an airliner so old it's been retired from US carrier service? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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My wife was on Guam for 3 years as a kid when she was in grade school and her brother a middle schooler. They weren't nearly as far behind when they came home as my sister and I were from our remote Italy DOD school. Father-in-Law loved it, and that was pre internet age, but he was also a diver so if that's your thing you ought to be able to have a good time.
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Found this entertaining Because screw that bitch and her "it's my turn" mentality. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Did they realize SERE C is a qualification outside a specific service? We don't make ground guys do it again if they have a C qualification. It's a waste of time and school seats. Water survival I get because even if you Dunker Qual you have to do yearly recertification if you do over water ops.
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That bill in some form has been put forward every year for something like 20 years and it goes nowhere. It would have happened this year no matter who was elected. And it'll die this year like it always has.
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I'm curious if after the inauguration there will be YouTube videos of people watching it and just losing their shit. Kinda like all those post GOT/Walking Dead reaction videos. I could find a lot of time wasting entertainment watching beta males and feminists cry. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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There is a definite statement when we do something no other country can do.... send a bomber capable of carrying a nuclear payload half way across the planet with complete impunity. It's like a very clear "ok... your turn." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's a good idea. I agree with the draft, but for what it's real purpose is, the 3 days after the big war of annihilation ends and you need bodies to put society back together. I'm not a fan of this "make a draft and it'll stop imperialism" argument the isolationists keep pushing. But I'm saying if they combat that by making less war and more nation building the easy switch is expand the draft to include all those nation building jobs and counter. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Conversely if we expanded civil service beyond a military draft I think we could combat that. I'd imagine the loss of freedoms might have an effect. 20-23 year olds find themselves teaching English to Hadj on some super FOB or running a warehouse full of water bottles for a year of your life would have a real effect on our taste for "nation building."
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Up 100-200 depending on rank in the JBLM footprint. My mortgage is finally less than my total BAH. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-family-booed-flight-bringing-home-soldier-killed-afghanistan-dad/ Classy... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Watching all my ultra left college friends on Facebook heads explode has been somewhat enjoyable. It's like karma finally decided to hit them in the mouth for the months on end of smug and conceited dictation they've been doing to everybody about how racist/sexist/unintelligent they are for supporting anyone they didn't. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Idaho A-10 UPT board 2017
Lawman replied to Skullbanger's topic in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves
Age waivers? I know a few guys that could definitely meet these requirements and would love to go fly something other than a Shadow but most are already early 30s but have 10+ years service remaining. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk -
I'm not so much worried about Migs/SU-25s or such rolling up an assembly area. What I'm worried about is exactly what is going on in Ukraine where the Russians are putting UAS direct fire support to work. DE would give us a great way to take those eyes of the targeting cycle out of the picture since so many of our units are less than expeditionary in the true meaning of the word. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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The problem we seem to have is we always want to adapt an existing missile into a system and call it good (Sea Sparrow, SLAMRAAM, Chapparel). Those missiles are working at an automatic negative as SAMS since they are designed with lower intensity motors on the idea they will be launched with significant velocity. Plus at this point we are close enough with DE we need to be pursuing that vs trying to gin up a new SAM and an MOS and all the logistics to go with it. Come up with a Directed Energy Avenger or Stryker. And while we are at it, stop looking at high volume of fire systems like CRAM and realize the future is in systems using AHEAD rounds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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That's right up there with the pictures of Russian warship silhouettes as a backdrop during a US Presidential election. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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You should have seen the sh!tshow at Rucker. Home units issuing mandatory evacuations of families and personnel.... guys stuck TDY without release for days because they still had to do AVCATT scenarios or other nonsense. Some idiot actually said "don't worry they have an FRG for them." My FRG can't run a bake sale, much less handle an evacuation while they are simultaneously evacuating. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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If you can even call what is at Painted Rocks in NTC a "semi-prepared strip" yes. Launch is easy with just a catapult. And really if they wanted they could absolutely make a barrier/catchers mitt type recovery like is used aboard ship and mount it to an LMTV. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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We are getting forward deployed Kinetic capable with Shadow V3. The hardware as far as an aircraft is already there and the contract has already been awarded. It'll be everything the V2 is with a bigger motor for more lift and a pair of Griffon missiles to give it teeth. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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The unfortunate thing is I don't think there is a 100% honest effort to get the high speed racehorse hardware completely out of the fight. There is too much buy in that comes from being part of whatever is going on to then use in PM offices to request money. Let's face it the second something like A-10 stops doing these little wars the last real proof we can't live without them goes away. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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It's funny how they don't even have the plane in their Air Force but there are pictures of it in Philippine colors and expensive wooden models same all over flag offices at Villamore... They don't even want to know aircraft like Air Tractor or AT-6 exist. That thing is already bought to them, it's just waiting to prerequisite time since getting FA-50 was priority 1 and to see if they can shake some AvFid money out of us which with the new leadership over there doesn't look likely. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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May pick? They've been putting the A-29 on a pedestal as the replacement for their Broncos for years. When you write a acquisition requirements list by literally Copy/Paste it from the Super T sales page that kinda happens. By the way... they aren't getting them for anywhere near 14 mil a tail. Last number I saw was getting to the point you could see them buying used jets if they could actually afford to keep and feed them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
