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Four. Deadliness/effectiveness on the modern battlefield is is much more than the guy with the bigger muscles. It comes down to the personality, skills, and behaviors of the individual. Women are just as capable of individuality as men.

lol. Great examples of "religion"

It's a good thing that the F35 is completely impervious to being shot down. If we were to somehow lose a single plane, it would be the equivalent to 50 A10's going down, and we all know how many enemies would die in THAT process.

Odds on that game are extremely variable. In my world, AFPC usually holds the sticks, and the game is quite easy.

How is this news? Air Force's newest fighter gets first female pilot

Valid. I was sourcing off of af.mil factsheets and didn't get as far as wiki. Still, seems pretty insane.

So, the AF lists the constant dollar (1998) cost of a Viper at $18.8M. Corrected for inflation at CPI, that's about $27M in today's dollars. The block 60 must have some serious upgrades to cost three times as much.

He looks so happy in that picture.

We need this for the af.

Sounds about right. It takes about 10 minutes to enable, and another 10 to disable #tankerstealthmode. Add in 20-25 minutes to dispense the chemtrails...

LRS-B is a replacement for the B-2, not the buff.

Charged with manslaughter. Not yet convicted.

Hi. I'd recommend checking here.

The rest of the story... Maj Gen Jerry Harris to be the new ACC Vice.

So, 52% weren't optimistic and 48% had little satisfaction/commitment. Isn't 52% + 48% = 100%? Does that mean the entire Army is depressed?

Man shoots armadillo with 9MM. Bullet ricochets and hits mother-in-law sitting in recliner in mobile home 100 yards away.

$10K contract awarded for expert to provide kissing training at Dyess.

No. Yes. I did use the sarcasm font earlier, but there was quite a bit of truth to my post. During the years I spent as a support officer, and even when I was enlisted, I always had my own computer. Since becoming a pilot, I've always used whatever workstation is available since everything is shared. It's a totally different mindset when you only have 100MB. Period. Including for archiving the important stuff. Also, webmail is buggy. It used to be better, but it doesn't play well with encryption. Especially with all the newest rules and algorithms that are supposed to protect PII by limiting access to attachments. Outlook is definitely not the smoothest interface out there, but at least it works.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/u-s-air-force-dodge-vapor-specs-pictures/ I'll bet it will even do CAS.

Because everyone in the AF has their own desk and computer that's assigned to just them. That way you can have a .pst on a big hard drive to download all those 15MB emails advertising CGOC golf tournaments that would otherwise shut down your email account in a single weekend.

Don't worry too much. Someone will get promoted right now for consolidating all the data to reduce cost. In a few years, someone else will get promoted for decentralizing the networks, thereby increasing speed, reliability, and survivability.

Completely valid point. Of course, as cool as a rehashed skyraider or OV10 would be, we'd probably be just as good buying a few hundred A-29 Super-T's.

A P&W PT6 on a Skyraider would work just fine. My biggest question would be how to best refuel it in flight.

That's an interesting first post. Welcome to BODN.

Now THIS, augmented of course by the whole menu of other combat aircraft, might replace some of the capes we'd be losing with the A-10.