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Huge screw up by the armed forces of Kuwait but if you have spent anytime there they still remember we came to help in 1991. Crazy footage of a local helping one of the downed aircrew. AQPptBFZfFsqf2ZHbYpb9V7qHpW1-JsI53iyUMhoQSXUDo5xmSeP6u2yxdp4efHy-SQSIOmF-O6ICHrQSIkbkUbtEtWaKNapNJQnuF7TutDcyA.mp4

TWO Eagles are down...Possibly THREE, all friendly fire, thanks Kuwait. Last I saw all four survives. Kuwait air defense popped both of them.

70K offload at Xnm. Going to purposely be vague on the distance... We broke the INDOPACOM model using shuttles back and forth to the IP...nearly three times the available offload at the IP. Big-Wings carry a lot more gas but it takes them a LONG time to get there. Also, being able to refuel all with on plane changed the requirements math as well. In one scenario a KC-390 was able to support a F-35B strike package, top off F-22 DCA and service an impromptu CV-22 SOF mission. Getting outside of our established TTPs really opened the aperture.

In before but rapidly removable (modeled on the Benson (sp), tanks. Embraer thought about it before hand and it was already plumbed for the cargo tanks. Our engineers swore it was an easy swap, I was a bit more cautious given in the 130 the ramp and door are part of the structural integrity of the airframe. Being a smaller aircraft all of our effort was on getting to 70K of offload so running cargo at the same time rapidly fell off the table which was a good thing for design. Embraer also put a lot of work into the cargo handling system with a series of motors and pulleys under the floor which allowed for single loadmaster operations. We removed that system at the start to get the weight down and fuel load up. Still able to load via dual rails.

Nothing against Clayton, but he is mistakenly cross-walking C-17 issues to the KC-390. BLUF - The requirement is for GAS NOT for cargo. Again, the problem in INDOPACOM is not cargo. Remember the bridge tanker program was to address the gas shortage program for strikers. The KC-390 is much smaller and the intent was NOT to perform cargo and refueling operations at the same time. The KC-390 met the need and broke the models because it did not rely on the bigwing tanker plan...the ability to operate of short and unimproved strips meant you had nearly three times more gas at the edge because you were not limited to the few 8,000 easily targeted runways in PACOM. TGhe KC_390 could easily shuttle FAR more gas out of short strips operating much closer to the rally points. In it's current configuration the KC-390 can do both but that is because it is offloading much smaller fuel loads. To meet the 70K requirement it would be all in as a tactical tanker that can do helos, Tilt Rotor and fast jets via drogue and traditional USAF via the boom. KC-390 was great not only because it brought more gas but it brought more booms/drogues and increased flexibility for the strikers. Think of the increased capability if one jet can cover all three refueling sets at the SAME time without being reconfigured. The company I worked for designed a swap-able ramp that could be replaced in a few hours. Extra tanks were also designed that could be loaded in the cargo bay (think MC-130P). Again this demonstrated how trapped we are in our thinking...bring a new approach means testing new tactics and when we ran the models it was an epic difference but of course USAF was stuck in 1972 thinking.

Reported to be U.S. 5th Fleet HQ Bahrain which was evacuated days ago. AQPrpaQf-i2DF_gfRowJD1TFzAWg5lLSoH8CX0hauY9Aa1gGmUYH9_HIGhu98NkElW8CLltevbbsKIfoawFOA67x2nJ2TXrDAQsCueJoPg(1).mp4

Off to court we go... Yahoo NewsHegseth declares Anthropic a "supply chain risk to nation...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict with the AI company.

This twat thinks she should be the next VP of the United States, she also thinks her Foreign Policy knowledge is on point. AQOOssOo6f9LO3hZbnQ5-8oBMdlbmPuVGMZRnj0oxtG-Dp12dhg8uZKYseXZaiupz54gVYUC1iCVSz1AxOK2H07Kj6-DnLqHhzTXv97OX9HoJQ.mp4

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