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Humanitarian aid to Iran re-freezed. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/iran-barred-from-accessing-6-billion-released-by-u-s-for-humanitarian-aid-report-says/ar-AA1i6X03

Russia launders propaganda through American news sources and people like Bfargin fall for it. Be careful where you get your news from people: https://www.csis.org/analysis/exploring-information-laundering-ecosystem-russian-case Claiming Russia is stronger now than before the war has the same energy as claiming the Earth is flat.

I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I really don't want to get into a back and forth internet thing. I just use the vote buttons.

I don't agree with the premise that the US is somehow forcing the Ukrainians to fight for us. I'd point to Afghanistan as an example of the fact that we can't force anyone to fight for their own land if they don't fundamentally want to as a society. I'd also argue that stopping the Russian advance greatly benefits everyone who doesn't want to be tortured in a basement.. By all accounts, life under Russian occupation really sucks, that's why they are fighting against them. If we stop sending a few percentage points of our defense budget, putin gets rewarded, aggression is normalized (risk of China becoming more encouraged to act on their dozens of border disputes) and many more Ukrainians die. They will fight to the last inch of Ukraine whether we help them or not, I'd rather see Russia lose.

Whoops, misspelled your name sorry. Didn't know you had another account

In general I downvote bad faith arguments and people who exclusively post content that echoes Russian talking points. I don't bother engaging with gearpig or bashichuni, but I don't know you so I'll assume you're a reasonable person. I don't really have a lot free time to go in circles arguing on the internet. I appreciate the user's who take the time to counter the disinformation though and post things a little more grounded in reality. The last thing I downvoted for example: if you look at the authors other work it seems he only writes stories about how Ukraine has no chance and how the US shouldn't help Taiwan in a conflict. It seems that author would prefer the US lets Russia and China bully their neighbors while we sit at home on our hands. He's been posting with shaky logic and half truths since the start of the war about how Ukraine is doomed and we should just make concessions to Russia. It's very obvious that guy is pushing an agenda and is not an unbiased reliable source. To answer your question: I argue for a rules based international order, and supporting our allies.

Did they specify how long the extra commitment is if you sign up early? Or is there options like 1, 3, 5 years and so on? Also if you sign up for 3 extra years and take the bonus 3 years early do you get 50,000 per year for 6 years, or only the first 3 years before you extra commitment even starts?

What other flying gigs would you recommend? Airlines seem boring compared to what I do now.

Is there a way to attach a breathalyzer to a keyboard like how they do in a car if you get caught drunk driving?

So which technical degrees specifically are they rewarding? I know the memo said not to get one just to check a box but without more details that's what it looks like to me. Does ACSC count as a masters for these purposes or will you need a masters just to apply for ACSC in correspondence to then be able to apply for ACSC in residence to then have a chance at planning the Christmas party?

Can you refurbish an F-35 after an ejection or is it automatically a complete write off?

Possible announcement this week of patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/us-patriot-missile-defense-system-ukraine/index.html

This is a dumb comment. The composite skin is very ballistically tolerant and the V-280 will probably be composite as well. The aircraft that got hit in south Sudan flew hundreds of miles after being effectively ambushed.

I would do unspeakable things to have a mx availability rate equal to the PC-12.. I think MC-130J rates are possible from a tiltrotor, but probably not the V-22. AFSOC has a mod ongoing right now specifically to address reliability, and I'm really hoping that pumps up the utilization rate. Minor point, the Navy version is the "CMV-22" but I agree with your larger point that it needs to be much better than the V-22 for the Army's needs.

Just fairly smooth level acceleration, it's no aircraft carrier catapult but it's respectable.

They still have a chance in the FARA competition for their advancing blade concept. If it loses that though I expect it to die out like the XC-142 or gyrocopters.

I don't see how that would be anything other than a handout for sikorsky/Boeing honestly. Have there been any other procurement programs that ended in a split buy? I can't think of any examples. The defiant concept quite possibly doesn't work at all like it's advertised to. It's very likely plagued with unsolvable vibration and fuel consumption issues, plus it can't actually achieve the agility they keep touting due to the risk of blades intermeshing. It's literally worse in every performance metric and probably would have led to several years of delays and problems like every other Boeing program lately.

I can't say for certain as I'm not directly involved with the program, but I'd have to assume they learned a lot from the 700,000 flight hours on the Osprey.

I've also been hearing that the base model will come plumbed for an air refueling probe to be attached as a kit at the unit level. Perhaps another use case for the KC-390?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/bells-v-280-valor-tiltrotor-picked-as-armys-black-hawk-replacement

It was the EC not the UN, and that statement was inaccurate/highly misleading and was almost immediately retracted: “Many thanks to those who pointed out the inaccuracy regarding the figures in a previous version of this video,” EC spokesperson Dana Spinant said in a Tweet a short while after the speech. “The estimation used, from external sources, should have referred to casualties, i.e. both killed and injured, and was meant to show Russia‘s brutality." "But Russian propagandists immediately pounced on the 100,000 figure, with one accusing the EC of saying Ukraine is lying about how many of its troops have died since Feb. 24." https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-another-body-count-controversy

Is there any place I can read more about this? Sounds Interesting.

It's literally one of the first results on Google, and not hard to understand: The Government Accountability Office said in a June report that it could take years to fix the tanker's telescoping boom, which has been described as "too stiff" for lighter aircraft to receive fuel. "The KC-46 boom currently requires more force to compress it sufficiently to maintain refueling position," the June 12 report states. "Pilots of lighter receiver aircraft, such as the A-10 and F-16, reported the need to use more power to move the boom forward while in contact with the boom to maintain refueling position. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/07/boeing-gets-millions-fix-air-forces-too-stiff-kc-46-refueling-boom.html

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/09/tactical-tanker-why-l3harris-embraer-think-kc-390-offering-can-dodge-new-tanker-wars/ Here's another article on the plane. @ClearedHot will it have a centerline drogue as well as a boom like the KC-10? Any cargo capes or fuel only?

With the Russian lines rapidly collapsing what's everyones predictions for the outcome of this conflict? Clearly the predictions that Russia will never give up what they already have were way off. It looks like Ukraines offensive capabilities are adequate so I would be surprised if they're motivated to make territorial concessions at this point.