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yes, i never seen a place that kicks itself in it's own ass so aggressively and consistently and i was a fighter crew chief

are you? or are you an Aircraft Commander who works with the SLIC to do the mission?

the pain of the 40/45, GTX and GTXT conversions are all still so fresh, i really hope people from outside the community are brought in to help this time

they Navy has basically had this mindset since the Iron Hand days. Even with the Specialized A-6Bs and EA-6As of the era there was a shit ton of just lobbing shrikes off of A-7s and A-4s with very little to actually cue them

Well, they finally did it. ,

totally, especially since the Navy already has the depot and other support functions in place and the knowledge base to start already exists with the 390th. just need a base spin up all the old ECSs and man it as a Special Duty Program since most of what they are doing is flying HVAA orbits.

didn't they use AGM-65s like the A-10As did, for a really drinking straw type of view? i know they were mostly dropping Mk82/83/84 and CBU. unrelated but still pretty funny that the 174th went to war with the GAU-13

dude not wearing a g suit, seems so odd

Unless they change your grade to a Q2 as you go to hand them the bottle the next day, very awkward

no Q-3, sheet metal on twelves, 👍

i'm going to write in Sam Hyde and Nick Mullen

those panels being open like that i wonder if they were zeroizing stuff of if the dudes that found it just popped them

you guys are going to want to line me up against the wall but (nationalize them)

lol "can you speak to what your mitigation plan for this is? do you feel well rested?"

determining what capabilities can be grouped together could help whittle the total number of overall aircraft needing to be fielded. example: Second Century Fighter One: has Speed, Payload, and Range therefore it is suitable for Tac Recce, Standoff Jammer, (maybe ARM shooter), BACN, Air Sovereignty Alert Interceptor Second Century Fighter Two: has lightweight maneuverability (sounds familiar) without loading it with 10 tons of shit, suitable for maybe traditional OCA/DCA in a high/low mix and maybe so BAI Second Century Fighter Three: is the compromise a multirole, medium weight aircraft, as a powerful AESA, EO/IR etc etc

i think we had a few HARMs end up there and Bulgaria during Allied Force

it's important to remember that a lot of the century series fighters were designed for one thing and ended up doing another. we could easily find ourselves in the same situation if we're not much more deliberate and cautious. obviously, the conditions of needing to rapidly field aircraft, a lack of computing power and other problems of the era contributed, but it's still pretty damning. F-100: built as a replacement for the non-interceptor versions of the F-86, ended up doing CAS/BAI in RVN because it was too slow to fly in NVN, flew in the guard basically as a fast jet placeholder F-101: built as a both a tactical nuke delivery system and and interceptor, did both jobs but was most useful doing Tac Recce over NVN, flew in the guard as an interceptor for ADC but was basically a placeholder F-102: built as an interceptor, flew as an interceptor, did limited CAS/BAI F-104: build as an interceptor, impressive performance but lackluster in many other ways, became a lackluster, notionally multi-role aircraft like the F-100 F-105: built as a tactical nuke delivery, did the job, pressed into service dropping M-117s on innocent people, lot good people ended up dead or in hoa lo prision. F-106: built as an interceptor, flew as one, not utilized despite of it's obvious potential as an air superiority fighter, probably due to ADC owning them, lots of proprietary equipment like SAGE, and TAC being fulling in on the F-4 F-4: build to pick up the slack, essentially the genesis of multirole not telling anyone anything they don't already know, just reminding

shit like this is so deranged

assume he's referring to the capability to interfere with links with respect to the platforms being unmanned and i agree

last 5-10 years, i don't know that any AD tone people other than T-1 FAIPs have gone to the bone, and even that was a rather brief period of a few years iirc. B-52s have dropped for join spouse and i even saw it offered to the top grad in my T-1 class for family reason though they turned it down. i've talked to reserve people from both and they didn't seem to mind hiring T-1 trained people, would make sense if they dropped them AD. curious to hear if they ever did it with regularity.

I know U-2 dudes/dudettes are 11Rs but not really taking about them, I’m talking about 13B controlled communities. I actually hear people like Offutt and I liked the new WG/CC when she was the EOG/CC. But they can’t send everybody there.

not that there are many 11Rs on here but the rumor is the first dude (a co!) got a -46 assignment, no idea where. if they do actually divest half the jets next year, this might be people's chance to escape tinker/robbins/9th circle.

i think a lot of us forgot about the program to be honest. sorry it's working out so badly. also, i dig your username, have been told to take a NAP by an erstwhile NotAPilot (different kind, different sentiment)

E-3 vs.E̶-̶7̶ E-3 but with a climbing class A rate…

I think people make too much of the hiring process complexity and black majic but if i've learned anything talking to U-2 people it's don't listen to non-U-2 about the U-2, which I of course I am not and so you shouldn't care what i have to say about it, lol.