SurelySerious

I think the real well done was RB mx team getting the damaged car ready for the grid. Mercedes is boring, but there was some uncertainty in the midfield, especially with the rain.

Advise and consent does not mean refusing to bring it to a vote for 10 months. Probably not. To play devil’s advocate: it is a form of not giving consent.

Sounds suuuuuuper receptive to other ideas.

Good points; although single hellfires and airburst 38s/54s are all known to have people walk away from what appear to be direct hits. When SOF take out someone important, they don’t use single weapons.

Disregard my outdated info Orbit. Thanks for the update.

Probably pretty low since they’ll need to cannibalize the boom flight computer to keep the remaining jets airworthy. edit: for those not familiar the -10 boom flight control computer is a diminished supplier item no longer available, and since it ties into the aircraft’s AP and FLCS you can’t just plug in a new model without recertifying the airframe. In my child like understanding.

APKWS is where it’s at.

I’ll buy that aspect. Another bonus is if you 1:1 into the ANG units that already fulfill that mission in the C model, in theory transition is minimal from the amateur perspective.

I thought the EX was much less about Boeing production, and was put on contract because we finally realized the C model may have a sweet new radar but the airframe is 40 years old and ready to crump while we still rely on it for a mission. Politicians from MO probably have the view centric to the production line and jobs, though, so maybe there is that perspective.

No, no. We get that. He’s questioning the lunacy of it all.

So back to the point of we provide nearly all the medical innovation. It’s a bit like NATO. We do all the spending to provide the blanket of defense, incur the wear and tear on equipment, and spend lots on people. The other member countries spend a lot less and probably look like their military models are way better because it doesn’t take as much money, but they get the same level of relative security. If you go to a system that disincentivizes medical innovation, what then? Edit: our life expectancies are also lower because a lot of Americans choose to make unhealthy life decisions like being overweight. Medical systems can only work so many miracles.

Light Attack is supposed to be low cost. Have you read the white paper on how much commercial satellite bandwidth costs for RPAs? It’s Raptors money. While we conveniently never report that in the cost per flying hour, most countries can’t afford it. OCO funding hides that pretty well.

That; the whole show digs all the way back to development of CAS concepts in WWII and Bronco in Vietnam etc.

Clark, just watched a show on the Smithsonian Channel about the OV-10 and their role in Iraq 2015 using APKWS. I know it’s not Scorpion, but good stuff.

That about describes the mental status of most WSOs, physically present in the airframe or not, so it’s been demonstrated at multiple RF vuls. Shots fired!

Eh, Lando is way more fun.

Nah, the flexibility to leave if I want is worth more than $20k a year, even in the current jobs environment. That should tell the AF something about its climate. (Yeah, I know it won’t actually.)

I’d temper that a little on just being technically capable. I’ve also worked with a lot of partner nations, and the general ability of them to organize tactically is low. And our ability there isn’t because of industry, it’s complex training environments and expectations. Edit: that being said, with respect to current AF and career progression, there’s nothing in the AF today I want to do beyond the rank of Captain. So there’s definitely something off.

Politicians use the VA as a third rail with illegitimate causes like the VA version of BRAC to avoid consolidating overlapping centers, and the VA has never faced a real audit and no one knows where the money goes...so I doubt anyone will ever do anything as applicable as assessing “100%,” unfortunately.

That’s the big downfall of not having the conduit of current info and an advocate at staff, definitely. Especially at SAC, the dinosaurs don’t want to fund anything that bombers didn’t have in ‘Nam, because they don’t need that shit to gravity bomb. Some people want staff tours, some don’t. The AF is still very bad at listening to its people to figure out who is who.

#notworthit

Vindman retiring So that means Tammy Duckworth can stop stonewalling those promotion boards?

Weird, because AMC doesn’t think they’re overmanned. Believe they recently said something to the effect of “AFPC pound sand we’re done footing the AETC instructor billets.”

Dude, you already posted this question in the ANG/AFRC forum.

I was 80% sure it was going to be one of those Rick rolls you cant exit out of...just like the war in Afghanistan.