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Force dudes to go fly preds and no one wants to go. But offer a $200k/yr contract job and people will volunteer in droves. It's all about choice; no one wants to feel trapped.

Yep. He lost me at "Claim 1". Not sure how how he couldn't have heard of the oil boom up there, so he's either poorly informed or hiding facts to make his argument better.

"It doesnt carry any short-range, dogfighting missiles like the Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinder when its in a stealthy configuration." Wait, what?

I was under the impression that the 3d system is used because it's cheaper.

Back to shiny aluminum jets, then! Or a million little DLP mirrors to redirect the energy right back to its source.

Considering this combination of wing, fuselage, and avionics has never been airborne before, I'd say there's enough reason to warrant a measured approach to flying it.

Or why don't we just keep flying hawgs.

Rolling over like that is totally not cool.

Fuckin A, Mr. Rogers.

Dude are you having a stroke?

Written by the same guy who advised the use of the term "PMV-4" instead of "car". We're really swimming in "technical correctness" and hyper-inclusiveness these days.

I think there is a problem, in some corners of the Air Force, that everyone has become so busy supporting the bureaucracy that the proper time can't be given to brainstorming sessions and idea development. Guys are treading water in the office while min-running mission knowledge. The only active idea soliciting going on is the "anybody got anything for me" part of the weekly CC call. Guys may have good ideas or bad ones, but they'll never be asked in the first place. Fixing tactical problems is priority #22 in a lot of places. Leading an open, honest, and non-retributional "bitches/gripes/complaints" session once every couple of weeks might help open things up a bit.

Billy Mitchell was court martialed for criticizing superiors.

It's hard to know if you're being serious. Either way, this is a great example of the mentality that has turned the AF into a career advancement exercise for bureaucrats.

Any of the aforementioned names are great examples for why no one should've stopped working on their masters.

The Air Force tends to organize itself to fight the most difficult war scenarios it can imagine. In the 60s it was poised to fight global nuclear war. In the 80s it was positioned to halt the Soviet advance across the Fulda Gap. Today, we're most concerned with an Air-Sea battle against China. The problem is, though all those scenarios are extremely difficult, none of them are very likely. The most likely wars, like Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq 2.0 & 2.5, are the ones that tend to expose our shortcomings. Maybe the A-10 wouldn't be very survivable against China or Russia. But it sure would be useful against every other enemy we're facing now and in the future.

Well they're already used to riding in shipping containers. Make sure to drill a few holes in it first.

What will the future be like though? A shit ton of dudes just punched, so I think the promotion chances are looking better for everybody.

Lots of discussion about tanker winglets here: https://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/military/read.main/116204/

Put a wheel on the boom! It would've been cheaper than changing the fuselage.

Fucking heinous waste of money, on top of being discriminatory. "Hey can I be a part of this record flight?" "No, you're a man!"

It's too late, we're already outspending ourselves.

Even if open source information is available, one of us saying "yeah that's my jet" essentially confirms the info as valid. The bad guys employ plenty of people to mine and compile open-source data, at least make it hard for them.

I sure hope not. A warfighting organization needs a warfighter as a leader, not an administrator. That's what the SECAF position is for.

Not true. Mechanical watches keep worse time.