Best-22
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Russia launders propaganda through American news sources and people like Bfargin fall for it. Be careful where you get your news from people:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/exploring-information-laundering-ecosystem-russian-case
Claiming Russia is stronger now than before the war has the same energy as claiming the Earth is flat.
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2 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
Are you saying that I or others who are arguing for a controlled cessation of hostilities with Russia likely still illegally and wrongly still holding large portions of Eastern Ukraine are arguing in bad faith with some sympathy or love for Putin / Russia or only the author I quoted?
Will disagree respectively on the author (Davis) as being a sounding board for Russian propaganda, he's been critical / not a simp for the Russian military and it's performance in Ukraine:
Putin's Ukraine War Was Truly an Early Military Disaster - 19FortyFive
An excerpt from this article he ends on:
To find the best ways to end the war on terms that most benefit Kyiv, it is crucial to understand the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s conventional capacity. The objective will be to avoid Russian strengths and exploit their weaknesses. Next, we will turn our attention to a balanced assessment of Russia’s conventional power.
I don't see or read a sycophantism in his work but a professional honesty that may not be what we want but still valid to consider.
I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I really don't want to get into a back and forth internet thing. I just use the vote buttons.
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1 hour ago, Splash95 said:
I truly appreciate you responding. I would in turn submit that your side are often the ones arguing in bad faith. Those of us who want peace in Ukraine, and question the wisdom of massive, open-ended support for an indefinite proxy war which has claimed tens of thousands of lives for little to no benefit of anyone, are (in the aggregate) not disinformation purveyors, Putin shills, etc. My opinions are my own, whether any of them happens to coincide with one held by Russians, Ukrainians, or those of other nationality. I've never been a Trump fanboy, but I think he gets it here:
And I certainly don't hold Putin in high esteem, but when he says "The West will fight us to the last Ukrainian" (I can't find the exact quote right now), is he wrong? https://www.cato.org/commentary/washington-will-fight-russia-last-ukrainian
I don't agree with the premise that the US is somehow forcing the Ukrainians to fight for us. I'd point to Afghanistan as an example of the fact that we can't force anyone to fight for their own land if they don't fundamentally want to as a society. I'd also argue that stopping the Russian advance greatly benefits everyone who doesn't want to be tortured in a basement.. By all accounts, life under Russian occupation really sucks, that's why they are fighting against them. If we stop sending a few percentage points of our defense budget, putin gets rewarded, aggression is normalized (risk of China becoming more encouraged to act on their dozens of border disputes) and many more Ukrainians die. They will fight to the last inch of Ukraine whether we help them or not, I'd rather see Russia lose.
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2 hours ago, gearhog said:
Lame and weak. I haven't posted under the username gearpig in going on 6 years, right around the time you arrived here. You're obviously posting under a sock-puppet account because you're afraid to engage using your primary account.
"Rules Based International Order" LOL. And you accuse me of repeating talking points. You don't have an original thought or phrase that hasn't been gleaned from a political talk show. Hypocrite.
Whoops, misspelled your name sorry. Didn't know you had another account
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5 hours ago, Splash95 said:
What do you argue for, @Best-22? Or are you content to keep looking like a particularly impotent loser with your ubiquitous and utterly predictable downvotes from the sidelines?
In general I downvote bad faith arguments and people who exclusively post content that echoes Russian talking points. I don't bother engaging with gearpig or bashichuni, but I don't know you so I'll assume you're a reasonable person. I don't really have a lot free time to go in circles arguing on the internet. I appreciate the user's who take the time to counter the disinformation though and post things a little more grounded in reality.
The last thing I downvoted for example: if you look at the authors other work it seems he only writes stories about how Ukraine has no chance and how the US shouldn't help Taiwan in a conflict. It seems that author would prefer the US lets Russia and China bully their neighbors while we sit at home on our hands. He's been posting with shaky logic and half truths since the start of the war about how Ukraine is doomed and we should just make concessions to Russia. It's very obvious that guy is pushing an agenda and is not an unbiased reliable source.
To answer your question: I argue for a rules based international order, and supporting our allies.
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1 hour ago, Fly4five said:
Visit from Aircrew Retention Taskforce happened this past week.
Here's the latest:
1. The pilot bonus will be capped at $50,000 annually however you will have to sign up early to get that amount. This year anyone signing up early (1-3 years away from ADSC) will receive the full 50k per year but starting next year you only get the 50k if you sign up 3 years in advance so say your ADSC expires in 2028 you would have to sign the intent to stay in sometime in 2025. It's $45,000 if you wait until 2 years and so on.
2. Base assignment preference is also another option you can add but it adds an additional 2 years not concurrent with your pilot commitment.
3. Aviation pay cap has increased to $1500 and the structure for receiving it is changing quite a bit. It is incentivizing upgrades by paying the most to evaluators and the least to copilots. But if you for example FAIP and are immediately an instructor you will receive more pay right of the bat and don't lose it once you change your airframe. This is nice so you never have to start over and it incentivizes FAIPing.
4. They are also looking to pay school house instructors more than line instructors to incentivize going to AETC for a tour.
5. Special Pay is also something being considered for WIC, TPS, AIC, AIS). Nothing final for this but it is something they are considering.
No word when this will be in writing and implemented but all we can do is hope for the near future
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Did they specify how long the extra commitment is if you sign up early? Or is there options like 1, 3, 5 years and so on?
Also if you sign up for 3 extra years and take the bonus 3 years early do you get 50,000 per year for 6 years, or only the first 3 years before you extra commitment even starts?
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3 hours ago, Bigred said:
Is it a minority? Perhaps. It just irks me that the common subtext on this board is that flying for the airlines post-military is the only viable, worthwhile option. The truth is a really good, comfortable living can be made in flying positions outside of airline/cargo flying.
What other flying gigs would you recommend? Airlines seem boring compared to what I do now.
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Is there a way to attach a breathalyzer to a keyboard like how they do in a car if you get caught drunk driving?
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So which technical degrees specifically are they rewarding? I know the memo said not to get one just to check a box but without more details that's what it looks like to me.
Does ACSC count as a masters for these purposes or will you need a masters just to apply for ACSC in correspondence to then be able to apply for ACSC in residence to then have a chance at planning the Christmas party?
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Can you refurbish an F-35 after an ejection or is it automatically a complete write off?
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Possible announcement this week of patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/us-patriot-missile-defense-system-ukraine/index.html
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45 minutes ago, disgruntledemployee said:
Like maybe steer clear of composite airframes? I hear they don't handle bullets very well. Just ask Rooster 73, 74, and 75.
This is a dumb comment. The composite skin is very ballistically tolerant and the V-280 will probably be composite as well. The aircraft that got hit in south Sudan flew hundreds of miles after being effectively ambushed.
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1 hour ago, Danger41 said:
I looked it up and according to the Marines website (https://www.aviation.marines.mil/About/Aircraft/Tilt-Rotor/) The inventory between the MV, CV, and HV (Navy) variants should total about 450. These started flying operationally in 2006 and have hit 700,000 hours in that time. For comparison, the U-28 fleet with 1/15 the fleet size, has amassed the same amount of hours approximately.
I highlight this point purely to show that I really, really, really hope that the V-280 has alot of the maintenance issues figured out. I'll admit that the V-22 is much more complicated than a PC-12, but damn.
I would do unspeakable things to have a mx availability rate equal to the PC-12.. I think MC-130J rates are possible from a tiltrotor, but probably not the V-22. AFSOC has a mod ongoing right now specifically to address reliability, and I'm really hoping that pumps up the utilization rate.
Minor point, the Navy version is the "CMV-22" but I agree with your larger point that it needs to be much better than the V-22 for the Army's needs.
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2 hours ago, Biff_T said:
That thing looks like it'd be fun to fly. I've never flown a tilt rotor. I've always enjoyed watching them transition (sts) from a hover to forward flight. How does that feel in the cockpit?
Just fairly smooth level acceleration, it's no aircraft carrier catapult but it's respectable.
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6 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:
Probably an Occam’s Razor decision but I could see some benefit to a split buy in maintaining a healthy industrial base
I would not be opposed to developing a spec ops focused version of the X2 to further the co axial rotor technology #porkbarrel maybe but there is a value in just R&D for seeing where it leads
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThey still have a chance in the FARA competition for their advancing blade concept. If it loses that though I expect it to die out like the XC-142 or gyrocopters.
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24 minutes ago, Blue said:
The US Army has something like 2,100 Blackhawks, so I assume V-280 Valor buy will eventually be somewhere in that neighborhood. And obviously more opportunities to replace Air Force and Navy Blackhawk variants down the road, USMC H-1s / V-22s, etc.
I don't like the "Winner take all" approach of these competitions. Proponents talk about "economies of scale," and the like, but there is never a focus on the benefits of a split buy. Keeping competition in the industrial base, for one. Along with protecting yourself from any technical/reliability issue grounding your entire fleet.
I would have liked to see the US Army do a split buy between the Valor and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X.
I don't see how that would be anything other than a handout for sikorsky/Boeing honestly. Have there been any other procurement programs that ended in a split buy? I can't think of any examples.
The defiant concept quite possibly doesn't work at all like it's advertised to. It's very likely plagued with unsolvable vibration and fuel consumption issues, plus it can't actually achieve the agility they keep touting due to the risk of blades intermeshing. It's literally worse in every performance metric and probably would have led to several years of delays and problems like every other Boeing program lately.
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I can't say for certain as I'm not directly involved with the program, but I'd have to assume they learned a lot from the 700,000 flight hours on the Osprey.
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I've also been hearing that the base model will come plumbed for an air refueling probe to be attached as a kit at the unit level. Perhaps another use case for the KC-390?
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4 hours ago, torqued said:
UN just said over 100,000K Ukraine soldiers dead. Perhaps I haven't been paying close enough attention, but that number is absolutely staggering. More than all US service member losses since WWII.
It was the EC not the UN, and that statement was inaccurate/highly misleading and was almost immediately retracted:
“Many thanks to those who pointed out the inaccuracy regarding the figures in a previous version of this video,” EC spokesperson Dana Spinant said in a Tweet a short while after the speech. “The estimation used, from external sources, should have referred to casualties, i.e. both killed and injured, and was meant to show Russia‘s brutality."
"But Russian propagandists immediately pounced on the 100,000 figure, with one accusing the EC of saying Ukraine is lying about how many of its troops have died since Feb. 24."
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-another-body-count-controversy
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17 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
Some Pease dudes just flew a 36-hour super sortie. Makes McConnell’s 24-hour sortie a distant second place. So, how long until these “tanker” guys do a48-hour sortie and destroy a jet?
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appIs there any place I can read more about this? Sounds Interesting.
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3 hours ago, SurelySerious said:
Haha, you are 100% the toddler. You never explained what the problem actually is, you just keep saying stiffness sts. You don’t actually know what the issue is, you have apparently just rote memorized it which isn’t impressive.It's literally one of the first results on Google, and not hard to understand:
The Government Accountability Office said in a June report that it could take years to fix the tanker's telescoping boom, which has been described as "too stiff" for lighter aircraft to receive fuel.
"The KC-46 boom currently requires more force to compress it sufficiently to maintain refueling position," the June 12 report states. "Pilots of lighter receiver aircraft, such as the A-10 and F-16, reported the need to use more power to move the boom forward while in contact with the boom to maintain refueling position.
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Here's another article on the plane.
@ClearedHot will it have a centerline drogue as well as a boom like the KC-10? Any cargo capes or fuel only?
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With the Russian lines rapidly collapsing what's everyones predictions for the outcome of this conflict? Clearly the predictions that Russia will never give up what they already have were way off. It looks like Ukraines offensive capabilities are adequate so I would be surprised if they're motivated to make territorial concessions at this point.
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Humanitarian aid to Iran re-freezed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/iran-barred-from-accessing-6-billion-released-by-u-s-for-humanitarian-aid-report-says/ar-AA1i6X03