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Be careful what you wish for. Alot uf us were excited about Norton Schwartz because he represented a break with the fighter mafia ... I'm happy with good leadership and am mostly indifferent to AFSC.

Ballwash article from a dude who has zero SA. Put on your thick skin: Strikes get beat by a 2 bag Viper every time (assuming no gross BFM execution errors), yet the Strike is a very capable fighter that kills the shit out of the enemy. Is the Strike a "useless fighter" because it can't kick the shit out of a Viper in BFM? Absolutely not, that'd be an absurd assertion. Should the Viper go away because we suck at slow speed fights and get our ass beat by name-your-high(er) alpha capable fighter in a slow speed fight? Again, dumb. Look at some EM diagrams - it's not bravado or bar talk, it's simple physics. To say a jet is worthless because it can't perform 1v1 BFM to the level of another aircraft is retarded. We all have strengths and weaknesses; this article is attempting to make a minor problem into a massive one. FWIW, I think BFM is important and awesome (and I'm disappointed the F-35 is shitty in the realm), but it's a weakness that has to be dealt with and is not even close to being a "show stopper." By the way, the F-4 was shitty too, and took its whips in Vietnam, but it also took its turn killing MiGs far more maneuverable than itself in the WVR region. Fighter pilots will overcome and be creative - all is not lost.

My view: Google is using their self-driving cars to create a very large pile of intellectual property for which they will then use to make a common auto OS. Google isn't dumb.

It's not the fact it can't outmaneuver an F-16...it's the sum of the problems: not as maneuverable as a legacy, small payload when stealth, lack of a/g gun capes, costs more than an F-22, single engine, uses now 15 yr old technology, did I mention costs a shit ton. It's all fine until it's sensors are jammed to the merge...or it needs to do close in CAS. But I have it on good advice from the USAF that from 1959 on we didn't need a gun on an aircraft and a supersonic jet would be a good FAC-A so I'm not worried. I asked someone in test who has flown everything in the inventory and he said the F-35 is a big disappointment for many reasons.

Devil's advocate: That's all good in theory until someone back in Washington says we need to visually ID the target before engaging.

Like you said - the US is not a democracy, nor are any of the Western European nations. It is the republic here that is failing, like all republics before it.

I think it shows the AF's evolution from Nuke Bomber Command to the 21st Century and the strategic importance of Space (and Cyber soon too)

My afsc is 92t3 and I'm going to Randolph. And that's not fair at all, where is my girlfriend supposed to live then? That's really discriminatory against unmarried couples! I didn't do all this work to go back to a dorm room! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk