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It's not over yet. Senator Clyde introduced an amendment yesterday which would basically end the NFA as it related to silencers and SBRs.

She's easy on the eyes but definitely crazy. Still a dibs as of today.

Like many things, it’s also one of those capabilities that would have been phenomenal to have FOC 15 years ago, but a late 2020s IOC just makes it a “meh.” The US acquisitions process is horrible.

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When you don’t have a good argument, you then go to vulgar name calling.

innovative and effective (also cheap) ways to kill each other. Respect the innovation but loath how we’re still obsessed with killing each other (not to get too preachy).

Yeah sorry I was mostly being tongue in cheek about the E-3 and how broken they are. I've flown with a wedgetail in integrations with the aussies and it was shit hot. Mostly I have just completely lost faith that we can actually acquire and field new airplanes on a reasonable timeframe, so even if we did get the E-7 I'm skeptical it would make it to IOC before the big fight where we need it.

I'm with you that the F-35 cuts bother me to as we desperately need mass. However, I think your Red Flag example is off, it would be similar to saying that because it'd be hard to find a use case for the F-4 in a modern Red Flag, that we should just scrap the fighter force. The problem is the E-3 is an old bird and should have been sent to the boneyard 15 years ago and we should have gotten the E-10 or E-7. Unfortunately as far as C2 platforms go, the JSTARS was actually the most advanced platform we had but buying them second (or fourth) hand led them to an early grave with no capability to replace it. Personally as an ABM, I believe if we cancel the E-7 the Air Force should blow up the C2 enterprise as it's evident no one wants to pay for it (not saying get rid of it, but we don't seem to want any Tac C2, but we also don't want to staff the AOCs).

Lol; I grew up in a suburb. I usually lead off with I'm from Chicago, unless they're familiar then we can get more specific. I sure as heeeeelllll don't say I'm from Englewood.

This just in, politicians are shady.....

Cutting the F-35 buys in this bill bothers me a lot more than anything about the E-7. Maybe it's because across the 4 red flags I've done, the E-3s GAB'd every vul except 3 so I struggle to understand what airborne C2 could even provide me. But slowing production of our most advanced fighter on the promise of some silver bullet dominance platform that is just boeing renderings at this point feels like we're falling into the same trap that netted us 20% as many B-2s and F-22s as we should have right now. We've got 400 F-35s out of a planned order of 1,763. Less than a quarter of the way there and we're cutting F-35 production already for future promises from a company that can't produce a single engine trainer plane on time or a narrow body airliner without band-aid fixes. Long story short: if something doesn't change we are fucked. If we can't tighten the turn circle on making new stuff we at least need to have the patience to produce the stuff we've already developed in significant numbers.

Just wanted to check to see how this post was doing… Oh, and here’s something else: We’ll continue to see the market rise and fall, as it always does, regardless of who is President. But to those who were cheering for it to lose for the whole sake of making Trump look bad, well, I guess your emotions got the better of you.

Yup. But since not everything in the universe is correlated to everything else in the universe, I'll need you to expand a little bit more. There are also examples of countries that severely punish drug use, and as such have wildly lower usage rates. Again, that's not me endorsing the punishment, but to deny the reality that it *can* be controlled is silly. And there's a whole separate conversation about whether or not something becomes pointless just because it cannot be pursued to perfection. Just because you *can* get meth doesn't mean we should legalize it. Fewer meth heads is a societal good. But we can start another thread on the inanity of libertarian purism if we want to continue that discussion.