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Yeah I dunno how that reaper shiz stacks up. Besides they go reapers and you move yo ass to another base if able no?

Seriously bro you'd turn down an opportunity to fly the white jets and then have universal appeal should shit go down at your unit ?

god god who would ever turn that down

Disagree. You have no idea what went into this. Ie "oh you want to fly the f-35? Well you would be the first female. We need you to give a sound byte to the press about it". Could totally see some back room deal with the devil shit there

Ok it may be the Irish whiskey and beer but wtf that was hilarious

bah its always been that way, they will counter that the f-35 is a force multiplier (ing hate that phrase, like drill down, it doesnt mean anything) and that 20 f-35s are the equivalent of 1000 a-10s

Flac im with ya, but with all the bullshit around the F35 maybe they are trying to pimp people out hard to show it in a good light?

Dude. Just. No. Delete this lol.

Yes !

Checks

Prep for Iran irregular warfare.

Trust me. Those dude hate their lives. We get to wax philosophically about the best course. They know the best course and still have to tow the company line. ;)

Brabus is a smart guy but the navy seems to think that not having ea pods is a huge mistake. I think LO is fine for first strike aircraft. But pouring the money we are into an LO multiple fighter? What next an LO transport ? Oh wait LockMart is working on that too.... /s

True but we are over leveraging our capabilities on it trying to make giant leaps ahead of our adversary's. The problem is by the time the weapons system goes operational it's been so long and telegraphed the enemy quickly has a counter for it. And besides. I fear that digitization of air warfare will lead to over reliance on automation and the temptation for training standards to dip for the sake of cost ala Airbus and the top notch Asian flight schools. Just look at the recent JQP a10 pilot flyif in shit weather dropping bombs on target. That seat of your pants kind of flying is what I don't want to loose

Agreed. I guess in arguing against clean sheets that have everything and the kitchen sink. Think iterative, not revolutionary. If we can turn jets quicker and cheaper they can uptake the technology faster. Gone are the days when the military has the best technology. We also need to see that our competitors are content with letting us spend ourselves into oblivion becoming more and more reliant on computers. There is an inherent problem with that. It can be seen manifesting in the Chinese having the largest hacking outfit in the world. Followed by the Russians. This is no coincidence. My biggest issue lies in the fact that we are not fundamentally changing aerial combat. We are digitizing it.

It's a cat and mouse game and all I'm saying is it's cheaper to builder better radars and guidance then it is to do a clean sheet LO platform like we keep doing. Hell the silent eagle looked tits man Bottom line is in a glass half empty guy with the f35. We canceled the f22 for less crimes an it was cheaper too. (Ok ok we cut orders. Same diff )

Yawn ***

If you choose 18x you should be marked as ineligible for any pilot slot

So you're proving my argument? Stop wasting money. Build more f-16s and give them better missiles

would LOVE to see how well those UCAVS work against a military with real EA capes. hell look at what the iranians did. lets not even get into the scenario of the ultimate trump card. China/North Korea in an act of desperation launch a missile attack on satellites in orbit causing an ablation cascade denying everyone access to space, but more importantly cutting off our single most valuable tools for warfighting. sure levels the playing field pretty quickly

My point was we are shit canning platforms/missions that are GOING to be the primary engagements for the foreseeable future. Or do we want to fly the wings off all the remaining -22s dropping bombs on toyotas?

So give up what could quite possibly be the last manned mission that will log real time (save for the raptor bros logging 0.shit hours per month for currency) smart.

I swear its like NO ONE read the 08' RAND report... like this shit is fundamentally ed from a numbers perspective... lets not even get into Air-Air against other fighters, who the is going to protect the tankers when the -22s and -35s run out of missiles?

Broception....

Might be a good time to bring up the realignment of the bomber fleet.... anyone else see the signs pointing towards coldwar 2.0 (SAC TAC MAC return)