Clark Griswold

Just saw this, seems like this is gonna happen Looking at this rendering which seems pretty close to what I'd imagine a real MAC 130 would look life IRL, could you drive that on to beach, embark / disembark troops / vehicles then launch again from that beach? Just considering it, high floatation tires in a side by side truck disperse enough weight to not get sunk / stuck on sand that's fairly compacted?

Good I’m glad I’m wrong as I think this worth it Just bring conservative in my WAGs Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

According to wiki (caveat emptor) in the current tanker version, the C-390 with Cobham AR systems can offload from a total 77k fuel capacity I assume that aircraft and mission fuel then are not segregated and that same wiki page says the max fuel load is with three aux tanks is 77k Just a WAG but after mods (adding equipment and getting rid of some not needed by deleting the cargo and paratrooper door/ramp mission systems) I think an instantaneous offload at launch of 65k seems reasonable Another WAG but guessing 5k per hour on station (averaging gross weight over the mission to a fuel burn) seems reasonable basing it off A320 engines/weights/me jumpseating on the bus and comparing it’s numbers to to the mighty 737 So guessing you wanna land with an hour of gas: 5k 2 hours to/from station 1000 miles away: 10k plus 10k is 20k 1 hour orbit on station: 5k So my guess is 35k at 1000 nm from launch refueling in the low 20s Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ll settle for ejection seats but if it’s technically feasible/deployable a DE weapon for self defense would be second If this presses forward with the strikers to some drop off that’s close or in the WEZ of something like PL-15, SA-5 or SA-400 some X percentage of the crew that fly it are unfortunately gonna need it sometime Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2022/09/l3harris-convert-embraer-kc-390s-aerial-refueling/377313/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not surprised, Castro did the same EXCLUSIVE: Venezuela Empties Prisons, Sends Violent Criminals to U.S. Border, Says DHS Report https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/09/18/exclusive-venezuela-empties-prisons-sends-violent-criminals-to-u-s-says-dhs-report/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Who would have thought a bunch of limousine liberals who live sheltered lives in an exclusive bubble would actually think this way? WATCH: Spanish TV Reporter Says Martha’s Vineyard Residents Privately Admitted They ‘Don’t Want Migrants Here’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/16/watch-spanish-tv-reporter-says-marthas-vineyard-residents-privately-admitted-they-dont-want-migrants-here/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

To the shoe clerk(s) who thought this up...

Copy all Great advice, I've priced out some TL policies in addition to what I have now, probably gonna go with SBP but keeping in mind that it is not necessarily permanent Inflation is what is keeping me interested in SBP more than anything else but prices on 7 figure TL policies are still beating SBP, I think it just depends how long we are gonna be experiencing inflation rates we have been for the last year, 8-10% inflation year after year will wear down even a mil to a mil and half benefit

Probably already asked 69 times but SBP or a term life policy for wife and kids if Clark Griswold keels over day 1 into retirement? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They won’t go home ever, don’t think I said that or didn’t mean to imply it, I think they’ll go tactically nuclear before they get kicked out of Ukraine I think recognition that they will keep about the amount of territory they have now is the reality the world should accept and move to a feasible plan to end the war, bring new Ukraine into the Western fold and subvert Putin with a free, reformed (long term project like South Korea) Ukraine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Giving them some time to take back some territory / pressure the Russians is fine but there will come a point where I fear if the Russians really start to screw it up the temptation to go low yield tactical nuke becomes irresistible, the world gets really scary then. If they lose conventionally they lose deterrence against other foes they face, if the nuke first as they start to lose they end the conflict and they establish fear of nuclear reprisal with a recent example that assures them no one will f with them even though they lost a conventional conflict, yeah they’re a super pariah now but they have so much in natural resources it won’t last long term (isolation via extreme sanctions). If Russia gets territorial concessions and a land bridge to Crimea, then the West can beat that for the new Ukraine, basically a Marshall Plan plus immediate entry into the EU and NATO with US boots on the ground day 1 after conflict cessation Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

1945 had a pretty good summation of our strategy in Ukraine and pretty much everywhere else too: Civilian leadership: Just do something, anything, I don't know just something and right now. Military: Ok What Is America's Goal for the Ukraine War? Answer: We Don't Have One - 19FortyFive The cost to the United States for all these failures has been profound – and now we’re creating a new mission without a clear objective and no identifiable end state. Where things are right now: Not to be dismissive of the Ukrainians rightful cause against aggression but our interests are involved too as we are their patron keeping them from being defeated, but it's time for this to end. Bleeding Russia to the last Ukranian is not a good idea in the long run and Europe hence a huge portion of the world's economy is getting unstable, food prices, energy prices and inflation, etc... besides I'm not convinced we are weakening Russia to the extent we think we are. No Russian presence west of the Dnieper River and cede the Donbas to the Russians. End hostilities with an armistice and an enduring US military mission in Ukraine. No formal peace, no further kinetic actions, another Korea. Best we can do.

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Someone at the puzzle palace get the Ukrainians a fox 3 capability https://en.topwar.ru/188648-azerbajdzhanskie-istrebiteli-mig-29-poluchili-izrailskie-rakety-vozduh-vozduh.html Homework has already been done Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Another excellent discussion on WC’s channel, posted here to get comment on the Ukrainian MiG 29 domestically produced MU2 ground attack variant and Gripen as a fighter type to be supplied (potentially) to Ukraine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fair enough - I'm not sure the MAGA phenomenon has shaken the stupid from people I think it should but we'll see.

FWIW @nsplayr I don't think you are a member of the #unholycabal, maybe a supporter of what they say that seems appealing but not a per se member, not implying anything negative towards you overtly or subtly. I guess I'm annoyed at their arrogance and dismissiveness, they're just another decadent corrupt aristocracy fucking over little people while telling them to be grateful while making short sighted decisions that just seem coincidently to make them lots of money. Done. I'll just respectfully disagree and we can argue about it again. To follow your lead and return to the thread's topic: This was interesting at least to me https://warontherocks.com/2022/08/amateur-hour-part-ii-failing-the-air-campaign/

The backlash against globalism / internationalism / multi-lateralism and all the other entangling alliances, obligations and other costs with a large part of the American people (and other Western nations) is that it has been done at the cost of the working / middle classes of those countries All the “great ideas” from the unholy cabal of coastal elites, globalists, the permanent administrative state, corporatists - pointless wars in shitholes, unfair free trade, lax immigration enforcement or de facto open borders, cowing to China to save their investment in that country or to retain access to it, etc… all the negative ramifications of those policies and others are suffered by them but the limited benefits are all funneled to that unholy cabal, all while being told that they deserve it and to stop complaining, that’s why they hate it, hate the rich talking heads that promote it, the purple haired gender studies that extoll it while living in a sheltered subsidized academic bubble… I can old man rant longer but you get the gist, the neo liberal world that the TED Talk crowd tell us is just around the corner if only open up a bit more is in reality if we screw over everyone except us in our own countries a lot more Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Best use but alas I think they’ll be foreign military gifts as soon as the af can do it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not hypocrisy per sr but irony, mining for the RE metals for “green” energy ain’t do green Report: China Destroying Myanmar with Rare Earth Mining for ‘Green’ Energy https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2022/08/10/report-china-destroying-myanmar-with-rare-earth-mining-for-green-energy/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Concur - since we don’t GAF about the Russians opinions on much these days why not let our aerospace industry reverse engineer parts for Ukraine to solve support problems for existing equipment and new used equipment to be acquired by hook or crook? Just a thought Added for discussion on 3/4 gen attack aircraft (do attack platforms have generations?) - write up on improved Frogfoot variants deploying to Syria https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-03-22/further-improved-su-25sm3-redeploys-syria Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not A-10s but maybe Su-25s… https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-rumors-spin-around-macedonian-su-25-delivery?fbclid=IwAR1-s2XyICYO5qZz0ZP03_U1f35In4kXv8z_rhmIDpViV-AKsRX718PgTj0 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Billionaires, Hollywood Celebrities Join Call to End Public Plane Tracking After ‘Climate Criminal’ Backlash https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/07/how-dare-you-billionaires-hollywood-stars-join-call-for-end-to-public-plane-tracking/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Every red state / county should be doing this Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk