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Basic air doctrine: Air supremacy is the highest level of control of the air, defined by NATO and the US Department of Defense as the degree of superiority where the opposing air force is incapable of effective interference. Drone and TBMs don't represent a threat to our ability to operate in their airspace. The Iranian Air Force is done. Iranian Air Defense is no longer integrated and is now operating at tactical/local (reactionary), control. It doesn't mean the enemy can't fight back.
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With what almost was Tenerife 2.0 at JFK, AA 777 v DL 737, a thought occurred to me: a lot of energy is spent in initial and recurrent training on precise callouts and movements based on the GUI presented. While this is a good thing toward producing a homogenized product for the line, there seemed to be a lot of pull on the eyes toward just the PFD, with little discussion or encouragement to, well, scan. At all. So for myself, I identified the threat and adjusted accordingly. I make a conscious effort to scan the entry points down field, identify anyone approaching and holding short. On the roll, just after the 80kt call, quick glance to the engines (white needles pointing in roughly the same direction and near the carrots), airspeed (still under 100), then up and check the runway for movement ahead, quick glances down to the PFD for accel progress. More or less the same thought process, as much as brain bytes allow, inside of a mile on landing. fwiw
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Ummm I certainly understand ROE and such. I just don't see the current situation (Air Superiority bordering on Air Supremacy), calling for high risk tactics. This is not BANZAI to the merge because the Iranian hordes are going to bust through. Unless a CIA team was in extremis or a TBM with CBRNE was about to fire, it is tough to justify being at 2K doing a strafe run in country right now.Waiting on paperwork for the Form1's, but I'm converting my Rattler and the ZF-5T I just got to SBRs so I don't have to deal with the brace nonsense. I haven't shot it yet, but I think the FRT in the MP5K clone is going to be a riot...I hope they win tens of millions and never have to work another day in their life.I’m really sick of bullshit like this. There’s needs to be a change in how we do business - you’re a lawmaker who makes this law, SCOTUS rejects it on obvious unconstitutional grounds, then you as legislator should pay a price…financial, immediate termination, I don’t know…but something.Mainly because of this one issue I will never vote blue...They won't give up until they change the Constitution. Latest law soon to pass in Rhode Island bans most semi-automatic weapons with NO GRANDFATHER clause. Possession after Dec 31 means you are committing a felony subject to a ten year prison sentence. Sell out of state or surrender citizen.Yeah, this is exactly the point. Except your contention that they aren't a bunch of irrational head choppers is mostly unsupported. They have repeatedly and continually acted in a way that is only rational if you truly believe the United States was never going to respond. As demonstrated over the past few weeks, they are powerless against us. And yet for decades they have targeted and slaughtered Americans whenever they could. In fact if you listen to the entire podcast Coleman covers a multitude of attacks that are clearly insane for the Iranians to have attempted. And yet they did. So yes, the evidence suggests that they are in fact irrational head choppers. And those irrational head choppers can never have a nuclear deterrent. So long as they are irrational head choppers, we must retain the ability to stomp them whenever their antics exceed our patience. Enriching uranium to 60% obviously indicates the desire for nuclear weapons. We need not wait any longer than that to act against those goals. We certainly don't need to wait until they are at some arbitrary point much closer to a nuclear capability. There is not another country on planet Earth that regularly conducts government proceedings after proclaiming "Death to America" loudly and publicly. Why people keep pretending that Iran is just like our other adversaries is a mystery to me.That’s civil lawsuit against the cops and AI company is going to be sweet.@Lord Ratner it’s a fun non-argument from Coleman but please tell me what Russia and China developing nukes slightly ahead is schedule 70 years ago has to do with a DNI report on Iran from 2025. Netanyahu has been saying Iran is weeks from a bomb for 30 years, so which is it? Are they ahead of schedule or behind schedule? Silly me I guess I just read the current intel reports from the current people doing the job. But to your second bigger point, there are numerous other countries that have enriched uranium and set up infrastructure to have what is referred to as a “latent nuclear deterrent.” Germany, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, and a few others are all considered to have the volume of enriched material and technology to rush to a bomb if they need to. Iran may very well have been in this category too but by all available intel they were not pursuing a weapon. These countries do this as a bargaining chip and insurance policy—basically “don’t fuck with us because we could rush to a bomb if we wanted to.” By any rational analysis this is what Iran was doing. They want regime survival and not to be fucked with. They aren’t irrational head choppers who are going to fire a nuke the first second they get their hands on one because they know Israel has nukes too and would be headed right back their way. A latent nuclear deterrent is the middle ground they were shooting for where they don’t have to have the risk of having a bomb on paper but have some the bargaining power of the ability to make one. I guess if you think launching a war to deny them that bargaining power is a good thing.. fair enough. But it’ll be hard to prevent it forever.This is why all the AI identification and Palantir shit (ICE, DHS, cops, whatever) is so concerning. These mouth breathers think since a phone/app identified someone then it's right 100% of the time.Imagine getting a knock at the door and being told you're under arrest for a crime committed states away. Can't get bail because you're fighting extradition. Spend 4 months in jail in your home state, then get flown to North Dakota and spend a couple months more in jail only to find out the only evidence is that you kinda look like the suspect on video that software matched with your likeness. Then when you're finally released, it's winter in North Dakota and you have no funds to get home..... Loads of taxpayer dollars pissed away even prior to the lawsuit which will cost the taxpayer millions more. Madnesscrust joined the community
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The intelligence community doesn't have a great track record of knowing when a country is close to getting nuclear weapons: At 1:21:00 Coleman covers the many failures, but the whole debate is good. Literally no country has ever refined uranium to 60% and not been working on getting nuclear weapons.
