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F-35 Crash Final Conclusions “With your shield or on it” went to some people’s heads. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They are celebrating a “win” that has them 10k square miles short of taking the Donbas much less anything worth while. Positional warfare at its finest. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I always enjoyed having a Jag review our tapes post strike to make sure we used the right phrases pre strike. Gotta justify killing bad guys with words that can be reviewed by some dipshit that just got back from the KAF Chilis who has some innate insight on the PID process. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A lot of that was the 12-13 that they were technically aligned with us. Their 2020 “deployment” wasn’t really anything to say other than it was Covid and we were all doing weird stuff. Go sit in a place so they can say they have Apaches there. We’ve been doing that in CENTCOM for half a decade now. Not really tip of the spear for that. I went through flight school with a half a dozen guys out of that unit well before the wars had been turned down from boil. I think all of them combined have less combat time than any of the active guys in the same class. They just have some seriously old farts in that unit that refuse to go find another job. That said it’s sad to see some 30 year CW5 with all of 3 combat stripes on his sleeve. As I’ve said to a lot of peers in the Air Force Active/Reserve/Guard, the Army has a very different relationship with those entities especially now that we’ve gone back to the Divisional model. An aviation brigade exists to back its specific division because depending on type they fight very differently. Army Guard aviation is supposed to be a harvest point for bodies and aircraft to us to feed the machine, but when we actually try to do that it’s screaming about their organic make up.If they ever deployed a guard division we might give a crap, until then put some aviation dude on mobilization like we do all the other branches (engineering, med, etc). Until then they can shut up and stop pretending, I don’t ever and will never need an organic battalion of guard guys at the cost of having an active unit undermanned. But hey, when it’s time for the big fight the Guard staying home means we can’t be tracked by our link16… because 10th mountain won’t have any. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That unit was so on its ass in maintenance to spool up for a deployment we gave them an entire active duty battalions aircraft out of Forscom so they could go. While on said deployment they had not 1 but 2 inadvertent fuel starvation flameouts (idiots doing idiot stuff) a long with a host of bungling across RC North. This is the unit that tries to sell its self as something special for doing all the quick reaction testing when really that’s a 2 aircraft every couple years requirement to fly canned test scenarios. They don’t deploy often enough and when they do it’s largely a series of small disasters. We should have changed them over to Hawks and kept Idaho or Penn. Yet somehow because of the strength of the guard through its senators that unit is getting brand new EV6 aircraft before active duty units that are deploying with D’s. That last part isn’t unique to them either, for some reason we’re going to let an active Army divisions have their supporting aviation brigades use a lot of old airframes while we upgrade the guard with virtually no deployments on its calendar (the CENTCOM E-Cab always uses an active duty Apache Battalion) to the newest E’s rather than give them the old stuff they are already qualified in. There are anemic D models still flying at Carson and Bliss while these guys pretend to do high altitude gunnery in easier conditions. And one of them that could have been had just burned it in giving an F-35 guy a tour of how the other half lives. Way to go Utah… but again no surprises. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m sure Kharkiv wasn’t their objective either. He’s still trying to figure that one out (along with most of the Russian Army leadership). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

FSUs Offensive Line has holes like Riley Reid. It doesn’t matter what talent is on the rest of that team if you’re going to give up whole drives to just bad protection of the quarterback. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

At this point nobody except the Iranians need to worry about the restriction of that straight. Saudi can pipe the oil out the other way. The only reason they don’t is the price per barrel is still low enough to justify shipping it via boat from the old oil ports. Things get hot, Iran effectively isolates its self. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Help me! This internet is all sorts of suspect over here. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So like every after action review I’ve ever taken part in… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Well in fairness, Boeing didn’t build the one for Apollo either North American did. Guess those geniuses in Seattle should haven taken better notes over the decade they owned them before selling them off. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We’ve got a team of young troopers whose sole job is acting as a red force with home made drones and going around showing people the vulnerabilities. They built this stuff in a basement with YouTube training, a 600 dollar 3D printer, and about 5k of budget. Now they’re flying around FPVs with droppers on them to drop little 3D printed chalk bombs. If you haven’t had the opportunity go out near one of these seagull sized little bastards when they are flying. You can’t see them beyond about 300 feet unless they are against naked sky, and at the speed they move you notice it just in time to look up at what would be death. It’s a pretty amazing and terrifying experience. The stuff DGI makes is even scarier. 2 minutes of playing with it and I was flying around 2-3 km away from where I was across corn fields at 5 feet doing 50-60mph with almost no effort and full HD video. The drone i was using is 600 bucks off the shelf. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah while I totally agree with the sentiment of skepticism at the lunar mission flight plan for Artemis…. This does make the cycling rate for launches to meet the refuel question way more within reach if they can replicate this success. Truly amazing… imagine having all the modules on ground pre assembled and building something like the ISS in weeks/months instead of years/decades. Truly insane leap in what could be. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is a counterpoint to be made for not turning the military into an access tunnel towards greater social standing and upward mobility in power… and she makes it very detailed in that previous podcast. The effectiveness of the military we wield is based largely off the degree to which the people within it choose to call it a profession and act as such. While we would most definitely bolster a lot of our manpower issues by turning on the tap of compulsory service, some of us remember the “I just joined for the college money” attitudes that existed when GWOT started demanding return to active duty or extensions of enlistments. I very much see a military filled with personnel that are there to just meet their social contract being more hollow entity than the one we currently have. You’d need a “Pearl Harbor moment” to actually galvanize that population in uniform when the call goes out into carrying on. And honestly with a unifying moment like that against an existential threat you’ll get the personnel you needed. While I agree we need more veterans in the politics above us, connected politicians masquerading as veterans is not the solution. The harder question is what are we doing right now to prepare and how does that compare to the efforts of Bill Knudsen for the years preceding Pearl Harbor where we started looking to retool our industry for war. I’d say that is the harder technical problem to solve vs the draft. How many JASSMs and GMLRs can we manufacture a week… ok now how do we go about increasing that by a factor of 5, and I’m only gonna have 3 months to do it before it’s not gonna matter anymore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think there is a calculus to that where she’s playing for 2028. Whether Trump wins or loses this election anybody linked directly to his campaign or an administration will carry that into a campaign probably for a lot of negatives. If Kamala does win this out, and runs for reelection as would be expected, Haley becomes the perfect counter for the Republican Party to rally behind. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In response to the current economic environment… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Saw a documentary about something like that once… The attack even got the hostage released, so two goals achieved. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m noticing a lot of politically aligned people throwing around the word terrorism and trying to make something of it. Funny I don’t see that same thing with any other nation capitalizing on their opponents crap OpSec. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They (Israelis) have no doubt in their mind this war is inevitable. I’m sending this around to everybody I work with like “this is why you can’t have your god damned phone at the warfighter.” Classification be damned, mission command via F’ing signal is going to end us before we even start a war. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And the hits for these jackasses just keep coming… https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/israel-detonates-hezbollah-walkie-talkies-second-wave-after-pager-attack I guess this says a lot about taking somebody chanting death to you for decades seriously and ACTUALLY doing something about it other than posture. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Going with this, an interesting history for development of AIM9 as the underdog program that went on to win in the end… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think you guys are focusing on the wrong metric in the totals vs totals discussion. What they can put in the field is not the same problem set as what they can command and maneuver. When this was started the Russians showed a complete lack of command and synchronization above the Battalion Task Group level (hence having essentially 4 axis doing 4 separate things and failing in all of them to achieve victory). The Ukrainians weren’t much better off but they only needed parity to achieve an effective defense and they had plenty of depth to surrender in the defense. That was an Army that had effective small unit weapons but lacked the thousands of armored and artillery pieces that would later be given in aid. Last year we started seeing the effective growth of Brigade level staffs in the Ukrainian Army, starting with their pushing back and regaining territory. It was largely limited to a few specific brigades. Since then we’ve seen a wider group of effective command and staff officers gain experience and now are fielding enough combined staff effectively to start thinking about Divisional actions (exactly what just happened in Kursk). There is a deliberate force generation going on to take advantage of this capacity, but that takes time to train and field and will probably be another 6-9 months before another wave of action is attempted based off all the troop-company level training that needs to be done so you aren’t just issuing impossible orders to conscripts. The Russians on the other hand are not really getting better, they still effectively can chew for ground by just throwing bodies at it, but it’s why they can’t present multiple dilemmas effectively across the broad front. Remember May when they were so sure they were taking Kharkiv? Yeah they don’t either. So when people say “the Russian victory is an eventuality” it’s really saying if the Russians are allowed to fight the war the only way they know how, eventually they win… at a ridiculous cost. The Ukrainians don’t have to allow them to fight that way, but they do have to be equipped and trained to change the name of the song that’s playing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For 3.5+ years the “CEO” has been an active puppet and nobody has yet to explain who has been actually running the company during that time. But those same asshats have now explained who the new CEO needs to be. Yeah sure let’s jump on that boat like it’s any form of decision by the populous. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk