Boomer6

I don't think you're going to find states that have the money/manning allocation available to add another sq of pilots/MX/etc. to fly a different airframe. I'm an expert by no means but I think the only way this gets done is by dropping the current mission at said base. Also, the bottleneck question wasn't what I was asking. This gameplan will open up more heavy spots in UPT, to be filled by AD LTs, so now you have more grads from UPT combined with this ARC Rapid Aviator Program (or ARCRAP). These two things only make the bottleneck at the ftus more acute. Even if you keep the number of pilots going to ftus the same as it is now, there is still a bottleneck at the ftu. If you hold guard dudes until you have a class of X before they start ARCRAP to help reduce the throughput to heavy ftus you're only going to make guard dudes wait longer which is a disincentive for guard units to fund this. All of this is easily solved by doing what AD already wants to do, which is sending all heavy dudes through a sim only course. No late graduations for weather or MX, and if you threaten the IPs correctly there will be no hooks. Thus, the ftus will know exactly when their next group of students are arriving, yet there is still a bottleneck..

Who is paying for it Who is buying the iron What units are losing their current mission to swap to T-54s How is losing that current mission set/acft going to impact AD Who is training/qualing theT-54 instructors How does this help the bottleneck at the heavy FTUs Zero dog in the fight here btw.

Have you asked him to stop being an ffing homo?

This is a terrible idea for the CAF. Agree to disagree. From the article - "F-7 conceptually would provide roughly the same capability as a fourth-generation fighter." This statement is so disingenuous it's either from a boeing rep or a foreign actor hoping we'll be this dumb. An F7 would be good for BFM and out-n-snacks in the ARC. Neighter of which help us get ready for china. If you want to market it to the peasant countries flying F-5s be my guest.

What you just said is* what the guade/reserve does, including the reserve units that teach IFF/FBF. They're high time IPs teaching guard/reserve babies how it's done. Bruh... The EX was also supposed to have a Sq replaced in 23. Don't drink the big 3 Kool aid. If all the guard/reserve units had to do was sit ONE and intercept Jim Bob in his cessna then sure put some Limas on a T7. The threat is far more advanced than that, and armed aircraft manned or not might not even been the answer. However, ONE is only a part of what these units do for AD. If you make them non-deployable AD will suffer. Not to mention we need them in the big fight. Guard squadrons aren't only getting F-35s because their politicians know how to deal.

It doesn't take a black border with plaid clearance to realize taking, let's say 30% on the low end, of your guard/reserve fighter pilots flying combat aircraft and putting them in an armed trainer is a terrible idea. The majority of your experienced fighter pilots live in the guard/reserve, especially these days. Not to mention you'd have to have a two seat "F7" for this, since four eyes are the only sensors you're gonna have in an armed trainer hunting CMs with nothing but a heater and hope in your heart. If we're coming up with pipe dreams I'd rather we use armed UAVs (thinking loyal wingman-esque but not necessarily stealthy) for ONE missions (minus DV protection). Give the reaper guys somewhere to go after AD and let your fighter guys focus on the big fight. At least we wouldnt be putting two dudes with 4K hours between them in a go-cart to go play heehaw and the fuck around gang.

So instead of having combat capable aircraft and pilots with many years and a few thousand hours in said aircraft, you're advocating to take those pilots out of their fighter and put them in a non-deployable armed trainer? I'm sure AD units wouldn't mind back filling the deployments these units wouldn't be able to fill. I guess we could send these armed T7s in as cannon fodder if the balloon goes up, since there wouldn't be time to retrain them back to the fighters they left. Costs and consequences for sure...

Did M2 transition 🤔..?

Guard dudes leave for OTS with set dates for all required training from OTS to their MWS (usually). It's not a fast track, they just do all their waiting prior to going to OTS. There's definitely an argument to be made that some guard babies get passed when they wouldn't have made it if they were AD, especially on the fighter side.

Recommend going Guard.

If the glove don't fit you must acquit! Am I right. How much $$$ you pony-up for the Rashaun Jones defense fund?

You're a regular ol' Johnnie Cochran for miami

Yeah dude, definitely don't congratulate them on a nice 5-ship missing man...

This is my kind of immigrant.

We signed the UNCLOS treaty but the Senate never ratified it..