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People used to say that the USAF favored RPAs because they didn’t have to risk an expensive pilot. The fact that they’re letting all their expensive pilots walk out the door shows that clearly isn’t the case.

The FSB just needs to shoot him already and get it over with.

CH are you selling these things? Or buying them? Are you talking about the Chameleon waveform?

Sorry boss, disagree that money should be spent on this thing rather than buying more big tankers. How much offload would it have? It only weighs 58k, would it have enough fuel to fill up a 4-ship? Portraying it as a JADC2 node is airplane seller fluff that just doesn’t make sense when the hardware to enable it isn’t ready. And when it is, suddenly any airplane with electricity could install it.

Cool. A tanker that doesn’t mention fuel capacity probably has shitty fuel capacity. Can it land in more places than a KC-130? Does the boom or UARRSI exist yet? Does the JADC2 mesh network datalink it’ll carry exist yet? And when it does exist, what’s stopping literally any other airplane from carrying it?

Regenerative braking on road cars turns one of the electric motors in reverse, using it as a generator to charge the battery when coasting. Nothing is connected to the brakes themselves.

Seems like the CMSAF wants to reduce the pay for special duty while increasing the pay for non-special duty. A continuing attempt by the Air Force to make the best less special and the average more special. Can’t have anyone being cooler than the Bobs…

Russia goes home? How’s that?

24x Su-35s…probably 20 FMC/PMC…that’s 2x 4-ships staggered with 2x more 4-ships, extras backfill the dead jets…trying to cover the entirety of Iran…good luck

Blue, you’re scoffing the others in this thread for being unintelligent without taking a step back. The USG already gives between $100B/yr to LM (depending on source), which accounts for about 70-80% of their revenue. The rest of their revenue comes from friendly governments (some just funded by ours anyway), with only 1-2% from non-government sources (which is likely cross-pollination with other USG contractors). Overall, the USG gave $682B to contractors in 2020, $482B from the DOD. Considering what we get for that - ancient technology that will always lag behind demand-funded consumer tech while never being actually employed - the bang for the buck against our adversaries approaches zero. The point that others are making in this thread is that - compared to normal spending - spending on Ukraine at the rate of $26B/yr (4% over what we normally spend) is pretty cheap considering the devastating effect it’s getting on an adversary. The weapons sent to Ukraine are actually being employed. As long as it doesn’t end up starting a nuclear war.

As a leader of the CCP, he’ll either die in office by ruling with an iron fist, or be tried/forgotten/executed by his successor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four

Giving $5B to Ukraine has been the most cost-effective use of military money in recent history. Our military uses $800B/yr to essentially LARP.

Clearly she’s referencing the end of the Sun’s lifecycle when it collapses from a red giant into a black dwarf. And I’ll be damned if I’ll ever support a politician that subscribes to the brown dwarf theory!

China only has 50x J-20s and a bunch of experimental missiles, let’s get this over with now before they build more!

An article on memes with only textual descriptions of memes!

Posting boomer political memes (left or right) is highly correlated with your friends unfollowing you on Facebook. Nobody wants to see that shit, go back to rooting for a sports team or get a retirement hobby. People tying their egos to the actions of a politician will destroy America. Hate China instead.

☠️CMSAF in shambles

Shit I wish they thought that way. I don’t see a whole lot of thought on how to sustain a 24-hour shooting war at many levels of leadership. It seems like they’re just thinking about widget vs widget during one vul. If your 7th-Gen fighters get shot in the ass during the RTB because they’re being asked to extend way too far on an OTH mission with no backfill, well that sounds like a root cause to me.

Been watching F1 for 20 years. Never seen the level of strange calls that Ferrari is making now.

Where is this list?

Looks like a great time to own property in Canada

Depends if you’re a Flat Earth kinda guy

Only cowards act that way to people that they know can’t fight back. It’s like taunting an animal at the zoo from behind the glass. Knobs like that certainly aren’t walking down the sidewalk telling off normal people.

Brian Deese referring to international relations theory, aka liberal vs realism vs constructivism. Not the same as American politics liberal vs conservative. He’s a career international politics and economics guy. This is a case of an academic being too smart for the audience rather than a vision of Drag Queen Story Time being mandated globally. https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/26/one-world-rival-theories/

DSM 5 removed the word “disorder” from gender dysphoria in 2013 to remove the “stigma” associated with disorders. Though almost every other syndrome is listed as a disorder, including Body Dysmorphic Disorder. I can’t quite figure out how to account for America’s 180° turnabout in the perception of transgender people in the last decade, nor can I quite figure out what entity pushed so hard for the change.