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Welcome travelers with great big hug and salutation. You travel today on back bone of Soviet air transport fleet IL-76. IL-76 is unique airplane... only plane run on coal. For tonight’s inflight entertainment we have tetanus shot followed by soggy brown bag lunch and vodka. Please after finish meal and vodka keep bottle for make pee in. I encourage to avoid direct contact with Misha the 3rd officer and plane dog. This is same person. Misha has fleas and also short temper particularly when performing fuel consumption check. If at any time you feel unsafe during flight we encourage you take short nap. It will all be over soon. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m honestly surprised they even wasted the chutes and didn’t just Yeet the stuff off the ramp like candy at a 4th of July parade. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

DE and Microwave are really the sustainment friendly solution to all things kinetic. The next step down is a cheap attack dog drone that goes out there to kill the incoming (ie Coyote). It only needs to have just enough performance to do that, which is why adapting SAMs to this is in a lot of ways a terrible exchange of overkill. This is attritional exchange of bombardment methods. The problem is the disparity of cost when you compare a drone built by 3 guys with a high-school education using parts from Amazon. Meanwhile if you’re a western military you’re using IRIS-T or some other tech that needs 7 graduate degrees to design and 6 more guys to build it because it has to be able to kill everything in the way of target sets, and we can manufacture 19 a month or something. The danger that comes with DE or Microwave though is those systems have some severe constraints as far as blue on blue effects. EW can be dangerous enough to your operations just through the bleed over effect, now you’re firing hard kill systems that may do things like cook the brains of those GMLRs in the AHA or fry the CPs radio stacks, maybe trash all the antenna cabling for a division STT… Part of this problem isn’t simply munition, it’s going from kill chain to kill web with some form of AI to protect us from ourselves while we try to protect everybody. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Because we didn’t see that exact sort of single minded thinking happen with the Duke system only to be told to turn our stuff off whenever in vicinity of a heavy communications area… Sure let’s give Joe some high power microwave/DEWs to protect himself with… what could go wrong. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Nowhere near enough thermal energy to grant any sort of reliable track. Time from standby to active and searching the the right direction would require a magic level of situational awareness. Also not enough range to permit a reliable distance of intercept. I know people brief like a manpads is like a little ~5km wide 10k foot threat bubble just sitting on the battlefield, but they aren’t nearly as effective as the video games make them seem. I like to send pilots out to observe the ADA guys from their perspective. It’s mostly a tool of attrition to kill people dumb enough to hang around close, or a system to ambush predictable targets on established air corridors. Now a system like Coyote? Probably better suited as this is exactly what it is designed to be, an expendable suicidal drone. But you still need donors and command and control architecture that may or may not be available at scale for them. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s ok, the Palestinian Health Authority will still report them as “Killed by Zionist Aggression.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s the same for the Army. If you go to OTS without things like a specific completed flight phys, a current SIFT, a letter from Jesus etc, there is no way to select it. Even if it’s available people go to OCS only to watch it pass by and end up a chemo or something. That often times a reason you meet warrants with college degrees that directly assessed. They didn’t want to end up in the quartermaster corps as a 2Lt. For the regular line officers it’s West Point > ROTC > OCS if your stated goal is to end up in aviation. In fact the only people I’ve met that didn’t really want aviation but got it were West Pointers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s a must see in theatre after watching it last night. It will still be amazing on whatever screen, but the raw awesome of the worm riding scene was way improved by the size and sound of a theatre. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah my grandparents had HBO and would mail tapes every couple months. Also like the commercial says, OPSEC is like the bricks in a building … you can beat a hobo to death with them or something or other. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Listening to anybody driven by political alignment defend this guys it’s clear they haven’t done any reading in his history. A reminder for the room, this was the COCOM commander that oversaw the rise of ISIS and its view by the admin at the time as a “JV team.” This guy giving the position to Votel was a godsend…. And then we put him in charge of everything because he checks a lot of boxes. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Some of us grew up in EUCOM, so before AFN there was SEB (serving Europe’s best). When I tell people what shows we were watching as kids, people assume we were forced to by our parents. Like no…. Adam West Batman and F troop were all that was on. Also Thursday night was designated black tv show night so you got to watch Sanford and Son and Amen. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

How do you square that with the fact that not one but two NATO countries have in recent past (since he started aggressively annexing places) killed his troops. If you’re making the assumption that any provocative or challenging act could result in Putin acting irrationally, than everything from sanctions to Atlantic Resolve could be viewed as an overtly hostile justification to act, but that presumes Putin to be psychotically irrational or act in a way that all historic precedent says won’t occur. You have to make a long series of specific assumptions/action within this hypothetical simulation that is neither happening nor in any immediate future going to happen (direct deployment of combat formations). It’s not like 2nd Stryker is in the motor pool at Rose Barracks getting ready to reinforce some beleaguered Ukrainian mech brigade. And the attempt to paint the mere presence of any uniformed personnel in any capacity to be the equivalent of that as an act of provocation accidental or otherwise is just a false comparison. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You guys realize we’ve had combat observers, intel officers, and assistance trainers preceding our participation in every conflict since the First World War right? Like we had people in England during the blitz, we had people observing Japanese action, the Russians had people take active part in combat that we know about in Korea. This isn’t new. And the ones of you acting shocked are either doing it for effect or have clearly never worked in a FID or similar capacity. We had strict rules when I was doing it, we were not direct combatants. Nobody was under any confusion that me or anybody on our team getting killed by some hostile combatant was going to suddenly trigger the US into a war. Likewise it didn’t do anything when we slaughtered a bunch of Russians in Syria. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Historically active duty it’s majority prior enlisted with about 20-35% of an assessed year group being straight street to seat. For guard it’s almost exclusively folks that spent some time in the states units as an E sort of earning their bro credentials because the states pay for their schooling. While college education and outside flying experience can make a big impact in the direct warrants (09W MOS), it’s not a requirement. It’s mostly a factor of SIFT score, letters of recommendation, your board evaluation, and finally and most importantly needs of the Army. Selecting street to seat honestly pays off more for the Army long term because it’s guys who can live to CW5 without going past 20 by a significant amount, but there has never been a big push to make it the majority of the selection pool culturally because one of the best parts about our warrant pool is the presence of a lot of prior E guys (many who worked in aviation) kind of maturing their peers faster. Of the senior aviation warrants in my brigade HQ though, almost half are street to seat….. that isn’t normal, but it’s becoming more common. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Because you can do it as a warrant. For an enlisted soldier with little to no that’s a huge advantage. Nobody pretends it’s the normal Army though. It’s like a weird thing in its own MI/VIP world. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Destroyed” as reported by media leaves a hell of a lot of leeway by what we would classify as destroyed in actual Armor. Knocked out or disabled, yeah probably as that’s happened a lot in the past in Iraq as well. If you are disabled remaining with the hull would be suicide and the crew is the most irreplaceable component. But, short of burning if you can perform a recovery it’s pretty ridiculous how badly battle damaged but through rear area MX is restorable. The resilience of the platform and survivability of the crew is really what the M1 has historically shown its self to be. People confuse that with some form of video game god mode invulnerability. That’s why ours and every smart western military has focused so much on not repeating the mistakes the Germans made and put Armor recovery vehicles in our MTOE. It is far easier to replace a tank from the battlefield than it is to wait and build a new one. If the Ukrainians can recover it back to the rear they can Low Boy the thing to the Depots we already have in Europe for exactly this contingency. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve tried 6 different GD ways to link it, this forum doesn’t like it. Searched red storm rising and fixedit and you should land in the right place on YouTube. Also unrelated to RSR, this is another storyline somebody has put together with a gaming engine to create vidoes. The scenario he presents is basically every warfighter exercise I’ve done since 2016… just hit “the next world war” in YouTube search. I’d attach both links but the forum doesn’t like it so it’s one or the other. My absolute favorite part of this is where the infantry brigade commander is killed because of poor cellphone discipline because opsec doesn’t outweigh high rank self importance and I’ve been convinced that’s how I die in a real shooting war, killed in a division headquarters because of some dumb ass major/LTC who wouldn’t give up their phone.

There is a guy on YouTube taking the audio book and making videos out of DCS with it. All it does is further build my rabid demand to make a miniseries out of that book. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you’re looking for ~36 hours of road-trip material, it’s available on YouTube and Spotify. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I see Operation Dreamland is going well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s not a new threat, or even the key development of ASAT tech… but it is an election year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Reached for Comment President Putin said: Maybe it was something he ate.” That dude was on borrowed time. They already tried to kill him with nerve agents and the only reason he lived was evacuation for treatment out of Russia. Stones for going BACK to Russia to try and do something to push back at Putin. Not a lot of good it did for him unfortunately. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are far more educated people than Tucker who have studied Putin (and in the case of this interview Xi). This is about 1:40 combined and ~8 months old if you’re bored enough to listen to it. Way better way to get an idea of the thinking process behind a geopolitical foe or in this case their sort of unhappy marriage of being more in opposition to us than to each other. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m saying don’t leave it to Biden which is exactly what you’ve done. And if “no compromise” is your only meaningful opinion on the matter than guess what you share in this fault. Every person coming across the border now does so with less agents funded. The ones caught have less places to be detained. You could literally have let 5k people across the border every day with a ride to a city of their choice and it would have still been less illegals than he had cross the border his first year in office. And that’s not even what the law actually did but you know that you’re just obtuse or delusional, not really sure anymore. Congrats, you really showed Biden. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You are still blaming somebody for the mess while preventing and even celebrating not taking actual action on it. Biden is the president now. Passing or more importantly NOT passing this bill doesn’t change that. You or anybody else bitching about what dumbass things he did to get here doesn’t change that. But it actually gives funding to the poor SOBs down there on the border trying to do something about it. For all the dream that Trump is gonna solve the border, 400k people is still 400k people. For all the “we have to do something” that’s still a lot, you think he does better in an immediate lame duck presidency? Republicans wasted time and effort to impeach Myorkas and guess what, he is still parking at the same spot in the DHS lot. So what good was that waste of time and effort? It was pandering for cameras and they managed to trip themselves up on that. So stop giving Biden free rein to do what he feels like and actually pass legislation that would impact his actions over the last 3 years. Congress gets sent to do work not stand around blaming each other while the President rules via executive order. In the last 2 decades we’ve gotten worse and worse at that. And stop acting like the Border is the ONLY god damned thing we need done if we are gonna happily stand around and congratulate ourselves on not doing anything of actual effect except campaign. That’s why I’m still shouting about this in a thread about Ukraine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk