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My guess is Israel will not follow the historical US path, which is leave/stop conducting kinetic ops in place X, allowing the vacuum of “peace” to fill right back in with whatever terrorist orgs were there previously. If they do follow suit, then give it a couple years and Hamas will be right back to a meaningful force strength. The peace deal is historic, but it’s naive to think any peace deal made with Islamic terrorists is going to last. My bet is Israel realizes that and will act accordingly.

I can’t see this ending well for Hamas. They are losing their leverage by returning the hostages so far. Zero chance they disarm and go away. They are going to get ran to ground in the end. Keep US troops out of it and take the win.

If anyone was wondering why the U.S. Army plans to cut 6,500 aviation jobs from the active duty ranks over the next two years, here's your answer! UH-60 Black Hawk Cargo Drone With Clamshell Nose Breaks Cover The new U-Hawk can lug thousands of pounds of cargo internally that would never fit in a standard Black Hawk, and launch scores of its own drones and munitions. Sikorsky has unveiled a new, fully uncrewed version of the Black Hawk helicopter with a completely transformed front end that swaps out the cockpit for clamshell doors. Depending on how it is configured, what has been dubbed the U-Hawk can move thousands of pounds of outsized cargo internally and slung underneath, deploy uncrewed ground vehicles, and fire dozens of “launched effects” like surveillance and reconnaissance drones and loitering munitions. A U-Hawk demonstrator, converted from an ex-U.S. Army UH-60L, is on display at the Association of the U.S. Army’s (AUSA) main annual conference in Washington, D.C., which opened today and at which TWZ is in attendance. Sikorsky, now a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, also refers to the design as the S-70 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), with S-70 being the company’s internal model number for H-60 variants. “A lot of our customers said, hey, I need to be able to move things into theater, and I need to be able to move them in mass. And a lot of the drones out there may be able to carry 100 pounds, may be able to carry 500 pounds,” Rich Benton, Sikorsky Vice President and General Manager, told TWZ and other outlets during a press call earlier this month. “We look introspectively, what do we have? Well, we actually have an autonomous Black Hawk today, our OPV, optionally piloted. But why couldn’t we just take the cockpit out of that and make that a UAS?”... Full story: https://www.twz.com/air/uh-60-black-hawk-cargo-drone-with-clamshell-nose-breaks-cover

Boeing brought in @HuggyU2 to test out the new cockpit entry system…

Which is a 100% guarantee not going to happen. I’m honestly surprised Israel didn’t go to 100% destruction/expulsion and take every square inch of Gaza land.

I think Trump was going to allow the IDF to invoke the Gen. Lemay theory of "You kill enough of them, they will stop fighting." After the Israelies put a missile into a building in Qatar probably with U.S. blessing, supporters of Hamas had to take the theory seriously.

Morning all, I am an aviation photographer in the UK and will be in LFA17 (Lake District) low flying training area in the UK, from Tues 28th October - Thursday 30th October 2025. Drop me a dm if you plan on visiting, and I'll be sure to capture your flying and send you some high-res images Keep doing the good stuff. Alex

Did Textron develop the aircraft with an internal ladder system? Or will they just provide the pilots a pole vault like Boeing?

I think Hamas realized that Israel was willing to go the full distance, and Trump probably told them (Hamas) he's not going to stop a full expulsion. Meaning they would displace each and every Palestinian from Gaza and just take all the land. I mean they're 69% of the way there anyway. Basically a full GTFO. Now, Hamas gets to hang on and maybe can have one more chance to accept a peaceful coexistence.

I've been around since Moses, and I've seen so many "peace" agreements announced - then dashed, faded or crushed away. What's different this time? Seems it's really down to what POTUS has added to (or over) the mix. Anyone care to speculate on what types of inducements were offered both the Israelis and Hamas to make this a different type of peace? I haven't seen any compelling offerings from the parties which might offer insight into the ingredients of this new dawn for Gaza.

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Keep on keeping on brother/sister. You're doing the Lords work.

And I will repost. You are even more fucking predictable. Grow up and debate the topic for fucks sake. Mod, you want to delete my counterpunch again to uhs stupid post, delete his too.

May I draw a potential parallel? The types that are very tired of the political elite, financial elite, royalty, etc., the ones that Trump stirred up to win some elections, might view this "Epstein List" as another tool to take down more of those elites. Or they just viciously despise pedos. Could be both.

Will they be dropping bombs on American soil?

Just some more about the 346 https://theaviationist.com/2022/05/05/usaf-certifies-polish-m346-training/#

Hear ye, hear ye, the first single track UCT drop was certainly…unique: RC-135 x 8 F-15E x 4 RPA x 2 AC-130 x 1 B-52 x 1

Thank you. They’re pretty great, but I’m admittedly partial. You and I both!

You're so fucking predictable dude.

Didn't the Singapore guys leave as well?

Wow. College sports world is fucking nutzo

Went to an NFL game there a while back. The walk into the stadium at sunset is pretty fucking incredible.

Beautiful fam brother! I volunteer to be paid $50M for being bad at my job! I will cry all the way to the North Shore.