SurelySerious

Sadly they didn’t consult me in the late 80s wrt naming the strike pig, but you’ve got light grey, dark grey, and now nouveau medium grey. Done. The S, I, J, K, and SG all make a bunch of sense given the buyers.

Eagle II? It’s just another Eagle. If we bought Block 69 vipers to meet 4+ needs, are they going to seriously call it the FF II?

What’s the Kendi quote, “the only solution for past discrimination is present discrimination, and the only solution for present discrimination is future discrimination”? So all aspects, I think.

I’m still wondering how they have managed to avoid getting penalized for flying the Russian flag.

He is, but that clever cockiness really fits with the brand RB is going for it seems. If they were the perennially dominant team, I think it would be unbearable. I think Toto has a bit of an arrogant ego, too, but it’s usually hidden behind ze German understated front. And for Haas...if the driver goes so does your major sponsor, so it’s a tight spot.

Exactly. Spun in every round of practice, quali, and then the race itself. Passed people on an outlap he had no chance of outpacing on the quali laps. Just a real gem. Too bad they don’t air the GPDA meetings.

If they could figure a way to depict Mazespin wrong way round, perfect. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

The money talks, same with Force Point Aston Martin Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Tangentially related to ClearedHot’s issue: all the aviation motor rebuild shops are also backlogged like crazy, so it seems like it is the time across the board to get rebuilds done combined with shops navigating restrictions. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I just assumed that after listening to even their mainstream stuff from the 90s people knew that. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Duckworth to vote No on any cabinet member who isn’t “diverse” https://www.yahoo.com/news/duckworth-threatens-biden-nominees-over-210241753.html So you’re going to vote solely on one particular immutable characteristic? Weird.

Sending half your students only through T-6s is pretty much what’s changed if I’ve understood the talking points correctly.

First step: give them different wings, ensuring them that no one will see them any differently Second step: cut all flying from their training Third step: profit

That revelation in the form of the article may be new...but the exercise being described was in 2015. The PLAAF had made a lot of changes since 2015...

NTAs are by far better than most Tower controlled fields, generally.

That person deserves to wear blues everyday until they leave the AF.

Saw an Eglin test of the Apache with a Spike recently. 20 mile range is interesting. Hypersonics from the Air Force perspective seem to be the way to go to cover the tryanny of distance being pushed by A2AD and mobile threats.

I think that’s part of what all the platform discussions miss: the weaponry. AMRAAM, JDAM , and JASSM aren’t going to cut it in the very near future.

I feel like the hypersonics push has been a small realization of the needed paradigm change, but it’s not the force-wide scale to be meaningful.

And using the lifespan of the major war fighting assets on said low end fights.

That’s amazing. In the worst way.

I’m not talking about filling days with office productivity. This is the fucking Air Force, the pilots should be training to kill the enemy.

The AF does have a loss in productivity, they just don’t realize it. You’re arguing as if I’ve posted this article as the root cause of all AF problems; no, it’s just a contributing factor. And you kind of answered yourself there at the end...people are voting with their feet.

No bro, we fly way less sorties than ten years ago. Production has been lost.

But you’re still taking the time to do the function previously fulfilled by someone else instead of executing the mission because the computerized system has made it so that the leadership can do away with support. You’re proving his point. Re Foreflight: There’s definitely a reason airlines have a huge dispatch operation instead of each crew trying to hack out their own Foreflight flight plan. Sometimes the AF pulls this off right in the AOC, but almost exclusively during contingency ops.