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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
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Does this mean the F-15 is no longer 101-0? But seriously, glad everyone got out. Hopefully someone can go over some TTP's with the Kuwaiti ADA guys...
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Good to know all those seat inspections from a few years back seem to have been successful 🤔
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3 Strike Eagles down over Kuwait. Blue on Blue. All made it out. Some wild pics and vid out there of the crews. https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4418568/three-us-f-15s-involved-in-friendly-fire-incident-in-kuwait-pilots-safe/
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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.
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Was that 70k at launch or at X nm from launch?
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More than 40 years in the making. About damn time.
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Recent Vance T-38 class patch.
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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.
