Boomer6

I actually have no doubt that it will be known for sure by the IC, and suspect it is already known. Whether the facts come to light after the war or the pilot is quietly disappeared only time will tell.

In what decade do you expect said growing pains to cease?

That video has been removed. Can't find it elsewhere either.

Kuwait's Minister of defense said "several U.S. military aircraft have crashed." Here's hoping they all got out.

I think we're talking past one another here. The attitude I have is one of skepticism with regard to defense companies and their ability to do what they say they can in a timely fashion. I'm also skeptical that anyone's prior service outweighs their loyalties when selling a product for their new employer. That just means I don't put added weight to what someone at the company is saying because they wore a flt suit way back when. One solution to said skepticism is for the DoW to stop signing contracts that allow us (us being the end users and taxpayers) to get bent over by companies. Or, as you said, force honest assessments from companies and hold thier feet to the fire. DoW bares half the blame in my opinion when it comes to our acquisition woes. I think a lack of skepticism on the part of DoW decision makers, specifically when dealing with the primes, is part of what has put us in this vicious cycle. Skepticism from my view does not mean scoff the newcomers and go back to the primes. DIUx is a prime (pun intended) example of where I'd like to see us moving w.r.t acquisitions. Trust but verify, is all I'm saying when it comes down to it.

Other air forces are already using it, cool story. That has nothing to do with how long it will take to get this platform approved for use with every fighter in our inventory. AFSOC may be able to get shit fielded in 3 years but us peasants in the CAF can barely get software changes in that timeframe so excuse me if I have doubts on your timeline. The E-7 is a good illustration of my point that "proven" platforms in use by our allies still take many years to become operational in our services. That's a critique on us not Embraer. I've sat through too many shameless pitches from dudes who wear LM, Northrop, Boeing, RTX, etc. polos and who were once "bros" to believe the company brochure. Phrases like "most of the risk is gone" are par for the course. That's a critique on dudes I know that were either ignorant or blatant sellouts. Don't take it personally. I don't know a single line pilot that isn't on board for trying something different when it comes to better capes/ acquisitions. The bobs who won't be going down range and are banking on a board spot at a big 3 are the ones that need convincing. Also, maybe vets should stop helping these companies oversell and under deliver...

The biggest drawback is that this jet is 15 years, minimum, too late to the party if the timeline for us to use it in INDOPACOM is to be believed. I'm sure all those capes you listed are possible, and eventually that jet might actually be able to do all of them. At some point it might actually be manufactured rapidly, at scale, and with enough parts required to sustain it. The bros that went to work for Lockheed, Boeing, or X consulting company after the AF came to the squadrons and pitched the same BS for jets like the F-35, F-15EX, and T-7 etc.

Obama says aliens are real ..

Surprised this isn't getting more attention. Maybe it's BS. Drone was actually a party baloon

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If the legalities of the use of force justify this shooting, then copy. However, I judge in the "totality of the situation" that the feds shit the bed here. You all have your own opinions already, but hear me out, and don't compare me with the cuck-o-saurus also posting counter points. Why the officer pushed the woman the way he did, I don't know or understand. There very well could be a previous part of the video that justifies that and I just haven't seen it. To me it looks like an over-aggressive and unnecessary escalation. Pretti trying to help her up seems like the actions of a dude who had parents that raised him right. If I was walking on the sidewalk there I may have tried to help her up myself. I don't disagree with points regarding conduct whilst one is CC. Maybe there's something I'm missing in the video here as well but that same officer had a second chance to de-escalate by letting the woman be helped up and moved off the curb. Then the rugby scrum of trying to tackle Pretti...This many dudes not being able to subdue this guy without shooting him blows me away. Trust me, I actually understand it is difficult to do this when a grown man doesn't want to be subdued, but that's their ffing job. I respect the training some of you have to analyze the appropriate employment of restraint techniques in this situation. I lack that training, so does the rest of America, so forgive me if I think these guys look like monkeys ffing a football here. I read a report that the first shot might have been an accidental discharge. Accidental discharge or on purpose, idk which one makes them look more incompetent. I agree with all of the previous points regarding outside forces pushing for this, the state not working with the feds, and Biden being retarded. The government and these agencies probably couldn't play more into the hands of the insurgent planners unless they started doing the Nazi salute.

Another reason for them to go sooner rather than later. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-sought-redactions-key-china-war-game-report-warning-us-military-readiness-gaps

Synopsis for those that don't want to watch a one hour video. Old British man looks up and to his right as he stumbles over his words blaming all the stupidity taking root in Britain on the American far left, all whilst using lot word when few word do trick. Russian/British version of a Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk combo explains to the saxons that American wokism has destroyed their culture worse than fire water destroyed the Indians. Their only hope being to elect Nigel Farage before the immigrants and the trannies take over the country completely.

Naw man, I think those dudes got sick of opposing view points and retreated to their safe spaces. Or they created burner accounts because they identify as being pussies.

I don't think you're going to find states that have the money/manning allocation available to add another sq of pilots/MX/etc. to fly a different airframe. I'm an expert by no means but I think the only way this gets done is by dropping the current mission at said base. Also, the bottleneck question wasn't what I was asking. This gameplan will open up more heavy spots in UPT, to be filled by AD LTs, so now you have more grads from UPT combined with this ARC Rapid Aviator Program (or ARCRAP). These two things only make the bottleneck at the ftus more acute. Even if you keep the number of pilots going to ftus the same as it is now, there is still a bottleneck at the ftu. If you hold guard dudes until you have a class of X before they start ARCRAP to help reduce the throughput to heavy ftus you're only going to make guard dudes wait longer which is a disincentive for guard units to fund this. All of this is easily solved by doing what AD already wants to do, which is sending all heavy dudes through a sim only course. No late graduations for weather or MX, and if you threaten the IPs correctly there will be no hooks. Thus, the ftus will know exactly when their next group of students are arriving, yet there is still a bottleneck..