Clark Griswold

Not force structure per se but more composition… https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/06/27/us-air-force-to-retire-all-a-10s-cancel-e-7-under-2026-spending-plan/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dfn Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

X-32…

Yeah, it was not a shock that he was retired Army, methinks he believes divide and conquer, more smaller branches mean easier pickings for the… Army. We need reform but not disestablishment. I hope there is a retort in the works.

Yeah, good point Just thinking there was a way to throw a flag on the field Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That what I was thinking too Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.airforcetimes.com/opinion/2025/06/26/split-to-win-why-the-air-force-must-become-4-services/

Just curious but in all these machinations on UPT NEXT, FUPT, etc… has the Air Force Safety Center been asked or done an analysis on the effectiveness/impact of curtailing/changing pilot training? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

PC-21 would be great I could post again this plane or that one, this many hours in this one then this one but really it’s all about getting the institution of the AF to admit that the effort to privatize too much of UPT, to cut from UPT and to radically change UPT is the problem. Not the fact and inherent costs of owning training aircraft(s) at dedicated training bases. I don’t know how you get a champion(s) with equivalent authority to those who wish to cut everything but the upcoming T-7 but if ever a training mafia needs to be formed ala the fighter mafia it is now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Updated, cache thing, refreshed and their site had these links, Day Man 1 Clark 0 https://thedefensepost.com/2025/06/18/us-texan-aircraft-avionics/ https://www.govconwire.com/article/borsight-t6a-avionics-replacement-usaf-military-trainer

Bit more info on it https://defence-blog.com/t-6a-trainer-to-get-new-avionics-in-2-2b-deal/# Nothing on their website curiously https://www.borsight.com/

Damn it that’s diabolically probable So where the hell are the CODELs where these aircraft that the AF wants to and already has divested, the T-6 and T-1 respectively… I get it that the Missouri CODELs are advocating for and getting the T-7 into production (along with others) but if I were a Congressman/staffer from Kansas I’d tell the AF to pump the brakes on this divestment of T-1s and if I got word of T-6 divestment, someone would be going to the woodshed… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gotcha would need to be a new additive program I could see this as part of a new way forward if the AF wasn’t hell bent on divesting everything but the T-7 and outsourcing basic flight instruction Mil IPs, standardized instruction not at existing UPT bases, make it a Total Force program, AD with Guard/Reserves, 3 x bases at desirable locations, Golden Apple tours for retention, good long tour orders to get ARC support, better GA training aircraft, etc… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ruminated on jetip’s post some, not sure if this has been discussed here on this thread but if the pre T-6 phase, really a flight screening phase, were done by AF IPs, in the same way as T-6s are taught (standardized) would that have the intended effect? That effect being higher degree of knowledge, skill and ability to adapt and master a higher performance aircraft and flight maneuvers? What if the T-6 assignment meant dual qual for the IPs? They would fly/instruct in both the T-6 and whatever GA aircraft was flown? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m not saying regime change but I’m just saying empowered disaffected minority groups who are sick of of oppressive corrupt theocrats like pallets of AK-47s, claymores, IED kits, drones and RPGs dropped from the sky https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/6/20/a-simple-visual-guide-to-iran-and-its-people When you have your enemy on the ropes, don’t stop Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Also a FAFO demonstration for other opponents far from our mainland, occasionally AirPower demonstrations real or simulated serve secondary purposes

This was inevitable A state fueled by petrodollars, exporting and supporting terrorism, tacitly backed at times by Russia and China with the capacity to threaten the stable trade of hydrocarbons and freedom of significant parts of the global commons was/had to be struck. The reestablishment of deterrence, the definition of the new free world, the update of our alliance structures and trading relationships, the extension of friendship and establishment of inroads to the developing world to choose our system versus the Chinese system and the reformation of our military-industrial-technological-intelligence-development system. This is the challenge for the next leaders on deck and at bat now (Vance, Rubio, Cotton).

Gotcha, tactical retreat vs turned into twisted parts. I was surprised the Russians didn’t push them or kinda make it a deal or no deal offer for their MiG-35. They need / want to keep MiG in business and as they only operate them for one of their aero teams, I figured they would tell them after X number of drones delivered it’s this or nothing. As they already have 29s, seems like a way of telling them these are the planes you really want. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

E-7 doing cool shit https://www.twz.com/air/mq-28-ghost-bats-controlled-from-e-7-wedgetail-in-loyal-wingman-test Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Didn’t the Iranians get Flanker 35s in exchange for drones with Russians? Ran away or still being hidden? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, persistent presence missions I agree will mostly be filled by unmanned systems but I’ll still argue for the need for some manned capabilities, particularly for dynamic/short term missions, what exactly that looks like is not my call but I see an overlapping of effects required in major future conflicts, a sensor-shooter-node in the link of systems, being optionally manned gives you the best of both worlds IMO.

Was thinking the same thing, I’m wondering if another system could be used clandestinely but conveyed to the PRC to dissuade cross strait adventurism Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Reaper AWACS https://www.twz.com/air/mq-9b-airborne-early-warning-variant-could-fill-major-aerial-surveillance-gaps

777s as GBU-57 armed bombers… https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/israels-strategy-now-rests-on-one-bomb-and-its-american I wonder if this is like the HARM on a MiG-29, it’s already been worked out but not tried yet.

The U-2 is awesome but for this vapor ware plane I’m talking about and referencing the -57, it would be twin engined for size, weight, power and cooling. Twin engines for running probably 2 radars and links simultaneously, maybe lifting 4 AIM-174s to the high ground for very long shots, maybe jamming a wide area, etc… I just mentioned above 55k as a notional very high altitude, open source says it could fly in excess of 60k in the sensor configuration NASA used for it, a new build would easily get well above 60k with some performance left in the bank Why the strong opinion on having a plane that swings both ways (sts)? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk