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They ripped the lid off, now they have to fully finish it. They need an end state like Japan in WW2 - complete demilitarization, confiscation of all war material, etc. Iran cannot have any capability to project power outside its borders. Hopefully this is also a catalyst for the Iranian people to rid themselves of the horrendous regime they’ve been under for the last ~45 years.

Between manned C2ISR and other tech, manned loses every time (in the context of full war with PRC). “Lose” defined as either literally lost, or mission ineffective. Much easier to succeed with other tech (not to say it’s indestructible, can’t be degraded/denied, etc.) than manned. It’s simply the world/near future we live in, at least in PACOM.

Bro, that's obviously fake....this one should be sobering for Western nations. If Iran can get to our F-35s, all bets are off.

You’ll dibs anything

Watching your childhood go up in flames... ouch

We should have sent Maverick on a special ops fighter pilot mission to extract at least one of those Tomcats.

T-6'n it again as usual.

Israeli's got the extended extended warranty on their F-15I's

I joined because I wanted to fly in the military, grew up around it, it was all I knew. My route to doing so was certainly a challenge, but I made it in. I've been very lucky to have flown several different aircraft types and flown at every single assignment. When my commitment was up, I was in a good place, doing awesome shit, with legit people. The plan was to keep doing that however someone else's temper-tantrum led to my trajectory drastically changing and sending me to to a flying staff job. Towards the end of that I artfully dodged a huge non-flying staff gig to end my 20 years. I'm wrapping up back were I started, flying 5 days a week, it's great. But I am old, my back hurts, and thus I am ready to move on to the next phase and spend more time with the family. Zero regrets.

I'm not so sure anything in space is safe if shit really kicks off

Why not just keep the U-2 fleet instead of trying to build a platform that can’t even fly above Class A and failing anyway? And the concept of optionally manned is worthless.

The Israelis have now gone too far. Attacking the island nation of Lilliput, the Lilliputians will now have to respond in kind. They might be small, but they are fierce! Apparently, tiny people with tiny radars can overcome stealth technology. I bet the engineers at Lockheed Martin didn't see that coming.

Is that why they call it “Fat Amy?” I had no idea it was that big!!

This is getting serious. Iran has an air defense capability that reverses your vertical stabilizer, powers your afterburner post crash AND sits you down gently in the grass!

Obviously Contact Time……

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.

Is that frowned upon now?

From the outside looking in, this does seem to make the most sense. They've decided: 1.) They want X number of pilots 2.) The T-6 fleet as currently funded can only support Y number of hours AETC leadership has been told to produce "X" pilots utilizing the available "Y" T-6 hours. End of story. If you can't do it, step aside, we'll find another General who can. Curious what a proper recapitalization of the T-6 fleet would look like. Is it a matter of needing to buy an entirely new aircraft (T-6C)? Or is there a path where enough sustainment funding of the current fleet (modifications, upgrades, overhauls, etc) would get you the hours needed to avoid all of the current flailing about with 141 schools and the like?

They should have called it FUPA.

FUPT… almost the right idea, good amount of hours in GA aircraft though Needs more cowbell… a bit more T-6 flight time, a new lead in fighter trainer now and a new multi engine trainer Old man rant complete 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..