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So…yes. Because if they didn’t fly fast sometimes, imagine how slow their brains would be then

Companion trainers should be fast. Fast jets make brain fast. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/video/take-a-seat-in-the-cockpit-of-nasa-s-t38-jet-1002459715572

Guy behind the camera is this idiot neo-Nazi: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11469729/amp/Army-commends-composed-soldiers-restraint-against-neo-Nazi-Poland.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyim_Defense_League Based on the ever-escalating nature of his stunts, I don’t see him being alive for much longer. There’s something about these guys, I swear they must be borderline suicidal before they decide to yolo on insane behavior to see how far they can get. Guarantee this dude was all out of options before he figured out how to livestream.

None of the ARES promotional materials mention 50k’. They all say 40k’.

CH about how many of these high-flying platforms would we need?

True, but if your airplane is dependent on space to do it’s job you’re going to have a shitty time during the war.

Worldview confirmed, there is no such thing as “over the horizon”, just increasingly smaller graze angles where the calculations don’t work anymore

I’ll have to take your word for it, never ran a LOS plot that low. Edit: looking at the dozens of bizjets currently flying on ADS-B exchange (with zero extra military hardware), not one is flying above FL470. I’m not really buying the idea that a military version is going to get much above that, especially carrying RTB gas.

I can’t think of a better way to kill 6-9 EWOs and ABMs. Bizjets will get fucked pretty quick by any weapon.

Hmmm…let’s continue this thought process. You want a high altitude jet, a guy in it, that’s extremely reliable, and has a lot of indigenous connectivity, maybe some 5th gen datalinks, maybe a sideways AESA upgrade in development…

Don’t forget the ops sup. And SOF! That’s a 4-pilot airplane.

This past Spring the Deid didn’t seem to care about uniform stuff anymore. Floppy hat, baseball cap, big mustaches, no one cared.

Contracting out essential combat capabilities will be the death of us. Contractors don’t have ALR.

I’m slightly wondering if the Navy would try to pick up the boneyarded KC-10s

Don’t forget that scene from Goodfellas where they drive Joe Pesci to his initiation.

Increasing the bonus by $50,000 per year would cost a few hundred million, or 0.1% of the Air Force budget. That’s money that would directly decrease LM and NG income, while starving the airlines of their free pilot training program. In turn, you get happier pilots that’ll be more experienced to fight a war you never actually plan to get into.

They’re also going to make you get a shit ton of other vaccines. Also you may be ordered to fly until your death if it comes down to it. Or, if we’re all out of planes, you may be ordered to pick up a rifle and fight until you die defending your base. Or, even worse, you may be the one issuing those orders. Or maybe the orders are to kill a million civilians - including women, children, and other Christians - using nuclear weapons, which will likely cause a retaliatory attack that kills your family and friends. All for a war started by an old man that half the country doesn’t agree with politically. I guess you’re cool with all those things. But getting the COVID vaccine, now that’s a bridge too far for a Christian. So if you’re quitting because you don’t want to get a shot for political reasons (religious reasons? nah), then I say adios and thanks for making the decision early. Wouldn’t want to find out about it after you’ve wasted years of everyone’s effort and money getting you CMR. Good luck in civilian life, I’m sure you’ll find an airplane job if you work hard enough. Please pay your taxes.

Dude it’s because you’re blaming your own country based on theory and conjecture. You’ve come up with a hypothesis based on news articles. Were it an airplane accident, the cultural mantra of “wait until the investigation is complete” would’ve stopped you from publicly drawing conclusions. Yet in this case, you’re willing to do so and throw your own country under the bus. For nothing. That’s why people hate conspiracy theorists.

Hey so I’ve been seeing on some instameme accounts that Chief Bass said “the Air Force has too many fighter pilots” or something to that effect. Does anyone have a source?

People used to say that the USAF favored RPAs because they didn’t have to risk an expensive pilot. The fact that they’re letting all their expensive pilots walk out the door shows that clearly isn’t the case.

The FSB just needs to shoot him already and get it over with.

CH are you selling these things? Or buying them? Are you talking about the Chameleon waveform?

Sorry boss, disagree that money should be spent on this thing rather than buying more big tankers. How much offload would it have? It only weighs 58k, would it have enough fuel to fill up a 4-ship? Portraying it as a JADC2 node is airplane seller fluff that just doesn’t make sense when the hardware to enable it isn’t ready. And when it is, suddenly any airplane with electricity could install it.

Cool. A tanker that doesn’t mention fuel capacity probably has shitty fuel capacity. Can it land in more places than a KC-130? Does the boom or UARRSI exist yet? Does the JADC2 mesh network datalink it’ll carry exist yet? And when it does exist, what’s stopping literally any other airplane from carrying it?

Regenerative braking on road cars turns one of the electric motors in reverse, using it as a generator to charge the battery when coasting. Nothing is connected to the brakes themselves.