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In a spot of good news, the new aid bill for Ukraine (amongst others) was signed; hopefully they get the new weapons/supplies rolling forward quickly. Biden signs $95 billion aid package with assistance for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan. Calls for TikTok ban or sale | AP News

Israel continues to do good work. https://apple.news/APIQSH1_5RHm-1iOPVCvBjA

This is no longer true anymore and hasn’t been for awhile.

It’s real strange, that’s for sure.

Agreed

Probably belongs in the WTF thread… https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/04/former-air-national-guardsman-facing-child-porn-charges-may-have-defected-russian-military.html?amp

This has been my experience as well

Highly recommend getting in the SCIF for additional information on this, there’s multiple reasons you’ve heard very little open source.

In a bit of good news, the Israelis continue to stack up the Iranian body count.

This was all that was left of that Silk Airways IL-76. If you blow the pics up you can see part of horizontal stab, besides some other small debris and the black impact mark that was all that was left.

I had just taken off from Bagram when that happened. Explosion lit up the whole valley. I tried telling ATC that I thought I’d just seen a plane hit the ridge out west, ATC comes back with “are you sure you’re not seeing the AC-130 tweaking on the range”. We had a mission to fly and I didn’t feel like arguing. Couple days later we found the crash site and orbited a couple times to take some pictures. Nothing but a hole in the ground with tail laying nearby. Nobody from Silk Airways, the Afghans, or the US ever went up there to my knowledge.

Most DZ Surveys have a blurb on them that states "Supported unit commander accepts responsibility for damage to equipment, property, and/or injury to personnel on and around the DZ." So if I drop a bundle that lands on the DZ and it crushes some poor solider/HUMVEE/civilian that happens to be running towards an aid bundle, that not on me. If I toss a bundle off DZ and it's something I screwed up, and it hits something bad, that's the fault of the crew. An Air Drop Review Panel (bod bomb board) investigates, will figure out what happened, and assigned responsibility as required. Looking at the video it looked like LCHV or Low-Cost High Velocity chutes. Them and their cousin Lost-Cost Low Velocity were developed during Afghanistan due to the high numbers of airdrops we were conducting. They're basically a trash bag factory chute that's plopped on top of a pre-formed container; they do have a high failure rate compared to other types of chutes (though I've personally never had one burn in, I've had lots of LCLV fail). All of the container and rigging materials are thrown away after airdrop unlike a standard CDS where most things are reused. I've dropped LCHV around half a dozen times in Afghanistan and Syria; they're actually pretty good at going where they're supposed to (at least in my experience and unlike LCLV, which can blow all over the place) but you wouldn't want to be anywhere near where they're landing. I think the Rate of Fall on them is around 60 feet/second, which is screaming in for a bundle.

Wait, a Middle Easten Air Force showed itself to be tactically inept? Shocked I tell you, just shocked.

Thats fucking horseshit. AF leadership has already stated they're having/going to have a problem producing & retaining qualified people for Sq command; now they're back to levying an artificial requirement for command that will drive more good people away.

Just watched Dune Part 2, phenomenal movie, honestly think it might be better than the first.