Clark Griswold
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Turkey has decided which side it's on...
Isis launches attack on Kobani from inside Turkey for first time
Not surprising with Erdogan pretty much the sultan...
NATO (and the EU) need to really think if we need them on the team
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Again back to China, more conjecture but worth a read about how China might try to invade.
Container ships, Trojan horse attacks and using container ships for an initial invasion instead of landing craft. Creative, it would have the benefit of surprise and if timed with a follow on attack and conventional support, it could crack the door open wide enough to jam your foot in.
China's container ship fleet and Taiwan's security
Reading a bit about this, one author raised a good point that we may be projecting our thinking on to what we think they may do based on how we would do it, they could do nothing or something completely different.
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What were we talking about again?
Something about China getting ready to invade somebody or something, honestly I forgot...
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Happy Thanksgiving and be grateful!
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Well I was running to it then I saw this girl and...
But back to China...
With their acquisition of IL-78 Midas tankers, a budding airlift capacity with the new Y-20 Strat Airlifter and then this possible new helicopter they will have more of what they need to move quickly and sustain forces... China likes to teach her neighbors a lesson from time to time (Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai publicly said the war was intended “to teach India a lesson"). Starting to seem someone is going to get a lesson in a few years.
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China And Russia Team Up To Build World's Largest, Most Powerful Chopper
Might be mostly civilian use or building up an expeditionary capability, either or but I would start to worry if I lived next door.
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Copy that-300F wing and gear allows for higher gross weight; -300F cargo door and floor is self-explanatory. -200ER fuselage is shorter than the -300 and -400 to accommodate the boom (longer fuselage would have caused issues at rotation - possible boom/tail strikes). -400 flight deck has the most up-to-date avionics of the 767 line.
AFAIK, the C-17 avionics are .mil only, and were designed with those capes in mind. The 767 avionics were definitely not. Integrating .mil capabilities into .civ avionics is a challenge on multiple levels, of both hardware and software.
I figured part of the mix and match reason would be for a higher gross weight in a smaller model but had not thought of the boom and tail strike issue on rotation
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1. It's not a standard configuration, standard dash number 767 airframe that Boeing's been rolling off the line for decades. -200ER fuselage, -300F wing, gear, cargo door and floor, -400ER digital flight deck and flaps, different engines (hence the "Frankentanker" nickname). Hasn't been done before.
2. The whole triple redundancy thing REALLY complicates the avionics/electrical installation.
3. .mil-specific systems that need to be integrated into the standard flight deck and tested.
I worked the S-92 completion center for some of my time at Sikorsky. While I was there, we built a block of four SAR-configured S-92s that took several months just to run all the wiring for the mission systems. I remember multiple engineering meetings held in the cabin of the first one, with engineers looking at drawings, actual aircraft parts, wiring bundles, etc. and not comprehending that the open spaces that CATIA told them were available to shove another wiring bundle into, did not exist on the actual aircraft.
Another example - at my current employer, we're wrapping up installation of a FLIR Star SAFIRE 380-HDc (replacing a previously-installed FLIR 7500) that is integrated with a previously-installed Aerocomputers mapping system and a Spectrolab SX-5 searchlight, in a Bell 407 helicopter. To date, our avi team has used almost 1600ft of wire, in addition to the prebuilt harnesses from FLIR.
I can't speak to KC-46 capes - out of my lane and above my paygrade.
Copy all - I had heard of the multiple 767 versions being cobbled together but have never seen an explanation as to why - just seems that buying a straight -200 or -300 would have been fine and lowered the risk
Don't doubt there are integration issues with mode 4, crypto, link 16, etc. but just a guess that these would have been solved by Boeing with the C-17
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@griswald
where is that picture? looks like a small strip i know near casa grande
Photoshop Air Base in the great state of Fantasyland my friend.
Website that pic is from has a few pics he's linked to from the Speed Agile concept (stealth tac airlift) that I have also seen proposed as a stealth tanker also. Not necessarily a bad idea (maybe) but put a 0.069% chance of happening ever.
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if its not obvious by now that they are waiting for Lockheeds proposal for a joint service stealth tanker then i dont know what to say. ;)
Just put a boom and hose/basket on this... done...comes with a built in cost multiplier and multi-year delay delivery...
Now back to reality.... to an OPSEC acceptable level, what cape(s) does the 46 have that the 767 lacks that makes it worth the time, money and trouble?
Saw an Italian 767 tanker out on a trip a year ago and it just twisted the knife for how screwed up the acquisition of what should have been a fairly straight forward job.
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We outspend them and build weapons that bankrupt them trying to counter them.
Collapse or at least put a dent in petroleum / NG prices - no money means no power.
New weapons would be good, particularly a new BVR AAM (even longer than AIM-120D sts) and a mucho expanded EW & SEAD-DEAD capability.
It's too late, we're already outspending ourselves.
No way - there's still some more paper we can print.
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Good article on a strategy not just flinching tactics to deal with Putin's Russia.
How to Defeat Putin
We should help rebuild a free Ukraine that will undermine totalitarianism in Russia.1- Lower energy prices worldwide.
2- Rebuild and support Ukraine.
3 - Begin to or try to pull away client states in the Western Hemisphere (Cuba, Venezuela, etc.)
4 - Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
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or a strongly worded letter...
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Right after we get all the resiliency training finished up. That'll show 'em.
Sweet Baby Jesus, if someone showed Putin that video, he'd probably authorize a pre-emptive nuke strike just on principle.
That's how we won WWII - hug it out and our enemies will become frenimies.
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Retired aviators that return as GS provide an incredible cost savings to the government, amazing continuity during military turnover, and incredible learning experiences for those military flyers (not only medical, but they meet the same flying standards as well)... I would suggest we could actually expand their role in many state side flying billets and be much better off because of it. I have no doubt that Matt was an accomplished aviator and his role as GS did not impact this tragedy.
Him him.
Agreed - have flown with DACs (Dept of the Army Civilians) and that level of experience, knowledge and maturity they carry is sorely needed in many places in the USAF.
I haven't flown or worked with the GS pilots serving the USAF but I have no doubt that he was great, let the facts come out and make the call then.
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So should we do the same thing with AIDS? I mean that has an equal chance of mutating and finding a natural reservoir in the Western Hemisphere right (as in pretty much zero).
No because AIDS is already here and very well understood, expensive to treat but manageable and far easier to prevent. Ebola is incredibly virulent, vastly more contagious and not completely understood.
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If you are this guy, maybe too often:
LMFAO
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That doesn't happen.
No virus we've ever studied has ever changed its mode of transmission.
This
Sometimes people talk about it being airborne transmissible (because HCW's are wearing N95 masks, etc) - it's not. But it is droplet transmissible, meaning if a patient sneezes and those droplets hit the mucus membranes of another person, transmission is possible. But that's just a characteristic of the virus not a mutation.
Here's a longer explanation that's quite good if anyone is interested. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071110152456AAPomKI
Knowledge acquired - thank you. Further Google post-football research, good article on probability of Ebola evolving to an airborne virus: Fact or Fiction?: The Ebola Virus Will Go Airborne
What I think is most worrisome is that as human infections rise, is that Ebola will jump from primates to another species and find a new reservoir from which to infect us. The flu will commonly go from species to species and raise hell, so why not Ebola?
The study was done by an engineer, not a medical professional, so he is wrong.
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21 days may not be enough time now to tell if someone is infected.
New Study Suggests 21-Day Ebola Quarantine Is Dangerously Short
I don't think it's time for Code Red 28 Weeks Later lock down but we need to really err to the side of caution.
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There is a reason why Ebola is classified as Biosafety Level 4 hazzard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#Biosafety_level_4
The longer we screw around and not stop this in its place, the more chances it has to mutate and become airborne, head for the bunker at that point. Or alternatively, it will find a natural reservoir here in the Western Hemisphere, as it is suspected it is in Fruit Bats in Africa, at that point it is endemic.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/23/ebola-outbreak-blamed-on-fruit-bats-africa
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Yep--1 weekend a month, two weeks a year...what could go wrong?
You might be surprised how good and how often some units prepare for these incidents. We just need an Executive wiling to use the capabilities that exist, the civilian leadership is afraid of looking panicky and overreacting, I think it would inspire some confidence (which is sorely lacking) in the Federal Government's competency / seriousness.
Guard’s civil support team trains to respond to chemical, biological warfare
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The first question the AF asks its potential leaders is not whether or not you did a good job but did anything go wrong on your watch? Even if your performance was at best mediocre but nothing went wrong (probably because said "leader" was so paranoid and conservative that hardly a wheel turned unless that pro-sortie just had to be flown to kill those beans) then you move up. If your approach by hiding behind a reflexive no to anything that entails any risk allowed you to move up, why would you change it when you move up and the stakes get higher to move up to the next level?
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Despite all its problems, it is developing some friends.
The US jet fighter that can do it all—maybe -
China & Chinese Shenanigans
in Squadron Bar
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True - just pack the containers better than this.