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*looked like Appears the queen is dead.

Also any number of the high altitude persistent glider platforms that could function as relays. If a big wing drone can sit up there for 30-72 hours to function essentially as BACN, it can probably do other things with passive or active sensor systems. Seeing what some of the new multi spectral cameras paired with AI can do, I’m starting to wonder if Radar isn’t going to be displaced in the level of importance it plays or at least be much more of a codependency to other methods of tracking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah I know, I should’ve said like or inspired by the -57, an aircraft operating at extreme altitudes, I’d call that 55 and above, effectively is a LEO satellite but way more flexible in dynamic employment My opinion is to have both, one primary and secondary to give options if all or most of said satellites are destroyed or disabled Only if king for a day and if money were almost no object… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We could waste billions on resurrecting a 50s era aircraft like the WB-57 for C2... or we could use... space..

Yup, modified biz jet in production now probably would be the only thing feasible if the powers that be said yes this is a valid way of providing C2 that is at a risk level we will tolerate but… if king for a day I’d propose a successor platform for the U-2, a compliment to the E-2/3/7, E-11 while bringing new capabilities. A modernized and larger WB-57 C2, arsenal, sensor, link and drone controller platform that could be optionally manned. LOS at 55k is 270+ NM, outside the WEZ of all but the biggest systems and at the extreme range of the ones that could conceivably engage this system when on station. Problem is how many tails, would need to be enough to avoid the problem of low volume high acquisition and high support costs.

November/December '79 we were flying gunships out of Guam to replicate time and distance for our mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Take off from Guam, fly up to Korea, hang out for awhile, and back. Average flight time 18 hours at 10,000 feet unpressurized, max continuous power, doing about 215 IAS, two ARs. That part of the mission got scrubbed.

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Obviously Contact Time……

I wonder what charge code the instructor used on his time card for the tag team?

Too bad, guess another bro got the GO lobotomy.

It's been a few years but I recall hearing reports of the Israeli AF doing large strike package exercises in the Med. They would have strikers, escort, jammers, and tankers flying west a long way then turn around and fly home. If you measured the distance, flipped it on a map going east, you end up in Iran. Things that make you go, hhmmmm.

Several key surviving Iranian leaders have fled with thier families to Russia.

T38 Commander known for being a bro who can push it up. Ends up sleeping with a student who's lady parts have had more instructors inside than the average RSU. That somehow escalates to tag-teaming said student with one of the blue-suit sim instructors, where photos are taken just in case they'd forget the gay-adjacent threesome that put three separate careers in jeopardy. Then the sim IP mistakenly emails said photos to the base's most popular barber, who had more connections than Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood fixer. She deleted them, but when OSI "interviewed" the sim IP about a rumor that his genitals were flying CT formation with a certain commander in unauthorized airspace, he went off on a rant about that "dumb bitch" barber who is always spreading lies. OSI decided they might want to talk to the barber-they-previously-knew-absolutely-nothing-about, who told them she didn't really look at the pictures in the email and it doesn't matter because she deleted them a long time ago. But OSI decided to cast a resurrection spell on her inbox with their magical subpoena crystals, and sure enough the investigators suddenly had everything they needed. If you know any of the characters in this tale, please keep it to yourself. They all went through enough, especially the spouse and children of the eventually-jailed Commander.

He made a visit awhile back and had a 30 minute diatribe about the definition of quality in relation to UPT grads. At the end of it he said, "I mean do you want more pilots or what?" No, no I would prefer good pilots to lower quality/high quantity pilots. He could run for office tomorrow with how slippery he attempted to be not answering a direct question. What's comical is, if he and the rest of management are so confident this is the right way to produce pilots, why don't they have the balls to say, "yes we're going to produce as many as we can and quality will suffer."? Idk what he was like previously, but I can tell you a room full of crusty old IPs all thought he was completely full of shit.

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I wonder what an Iranian boom operator looks like?

Well if we get 1500 pilots a year we’ll have lots of bodies and no iron… /sarcasm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Realistically manned AWACS has zero utility in the PACOM fight, assuming full blown kinetic (and non-) hostilities. IBS, UAS, etc. were needed yesterday to fulfill the Tac C2 mission in that war.

If they cripple the Phantom fleet, maybe they can spare the Queen of the Tankers. https://theaviationist.com/2018/12/19/kish-air-show-a-unique-opportunity-to-see-the-worlds-last-flying-f-14-tomcat-jets-in-action-and-much-more/

With the demonstrated capability to do point to point tight beam large datalink, ask this question… What do you lose if the manned awacs gets shot down. Not in terms of money but in terms of personnel. And how deep is that bench? How quickly can you regenerate that, and where are you stealing from to do it. This is the same survivability discussion going on in the ground. Put the commander in a position to commander, but we can’t replace whole staffs if they get fragged, so we have to distribute/harden/extend/efc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk