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    E-7A Wedgetail

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    8 hours ago, FLEA said:

    Unfortunately 11Rs are their own worse enemy in the AF. Been in the community for a while and the "bus driver" culture runs very strong. Was ridiculed by an evaluator as a young copilot for reading our 3-1 once. I'm not saying this is Demonrats case, but by and large the pilot community in many 11R aircraft attempts to remain as little engaged to the mission as possible, but then laments when positions like squadron and predominantly go to ABMs or EWOs. 

    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

    E-7A Wedgetail

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    18 hours ago, Demonrat said:

    The Wedgetail may be a piece of junk, but I wouldn't mind getting a sweet 737 type rating out of it. Too bad you are still a front-ender beholden to some goober in the back.

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

    F-15X on the Air Force's Budget Request

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    5 minutes ago, Lawman said:

     not something you can just generate on an ATO line.

    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

    F-15X on the Air Force's Budget Request

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    4 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

    Grab these and regain jammers with alt role as missile truck.  Could use longer legs but never look a gift horse in the mouth.

    https://seapowermagazine.org/navy-proposes-to-cut-five-ea-18g-growler-electronic-attack-squadrons/

    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.

    F-15X on the Air Force's Budget Request

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    On 4/10/2021 at 2:07 PM, Steve Davies said:

    The F-16 had no PGM capability (some squadrons with LANTIRN did, but they were in the monitory), and they went in at medium altitude and dropped dumb bombs without any idea whether they were going to hit the target.

    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

    Flight Evaluations and downgrades

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    28 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:

    Wrong.  The evaluator doesn’t get the bottle and also doesn’t even know what he or she is getting until after the grade is announced.  How can you  be bribed by something unknown to you?

      I’ve thankfully never had to Q3 anyone (have hooked several people on rec rides at the schoolhouse, which is really a gift when it comes down to it) but if someone really did that bad on a checkride where I had to Q3 them, I wouldn’t give a shit if they had a bottle of Redbreast 27 waiting for me.
      Why would anyone jeopardize the safety of their brothers and sisters and pollute the aviation gene pool by passing someone who is incapable of hacking the mission for a bottle of booze?

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

    The Congressman is back yo

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    On 2/28/2022 at 9:08 PM, WAG said:

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    At this point (soon to be out of office)  “No Fly Zone” Kinzinger only represents pilots who know something about everything and actually nothing.  Kind of embarrassed by all the jock holding from past comments in this thread. 

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

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

    Incredible footage from inside KA-52 while conducting several attack runs and ultimately being shot down.  Notice the fishing line he has strung up on the left side of the cockpit?

     

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

    A new force structure?

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    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

    A new force structure?

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    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

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    B-1 (Bone) questions

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    2 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

    Thread bump

    When did AETC stop assigning T-1 grads to the B-1 / B-52?

    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.

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    Changing/Switching airframes

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    4 hours ago, LoveDumpster said:

    9th Circle as in Offutt because Nebraska is a cold, windy turdcicle or 9th circle as in the 9th recon wing? 

    I figure folks lucky enough to get picked up for the U-2 don't leave it, although I don't know anyone in the U-2 so I can't really speak to it. 

    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. 

    Shhhh...Don't talk about the A-10

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    On 9/18/2021 at 9:17 AM, Majestik Møøse said:

    We’re getting to the crux of the problem: that Hog pilots would gladly accept a new CAS jet if it were superior to the Hog in every way, but acquisitions/industry is no longer able to build them one. Give them a manned jet, stealthy enough to operate around a contested FSCL, carries a GAU-8 and racks of weapons, and can take 37mm rounds on the chin and they’d hop right in it. In other words, make it an improvement in every way, which should be easily possible 40 years later. Instead, industry gave the Marines (ironically, given the author above) the F-35B, which doesn’t even have a gun.

    Same with why the KC-10 guys scoff at the 46. It’s a great 135 replacement, though with unnecessary fluff. But there are clear, glaring deficiencies over the KC-10 regarding fuel and cargo capacity. Had the AF bought a 777 or a A330 tanker, KC-10 guys would’ve gladly made the jump. U-2 vs RQ-4, F-15C vs EX, etc. No F-15A guy ever complained about going to the F-15C.

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

    Changing/Switching airframes

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    17 hours ago, skibum said:

    I doubt that will get you to the U-2, but it could get you your desired location for family reasons. It also opens up the wide-wide world of many other options.

    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.

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