DirkDiggler
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Clearly the author has never been TDY to Romania or Pattaya…..
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Back at it this morning.
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There’s been a lot of false info and dubious claims regarding last night’s incident. That being said, this morning it’s looking like the IAF suffered at least 2-3 losses; all the crashed aircraft appear (for now) to be on the Indian side of the border.
The above claim is pretty interesting if true. I didn’t know that China had exported the PL-15. Would give the Pak’s a significant BVR capability; would also explain why all the crash sites are on the Indian side. Tough for the IAF if they were using stand-off weapons inside their airspace and were still getting picked off.
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Glad the crew got out.
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1 hour ago, BFM this said:
Does beg the question why the entire order was for family models.
I thought the only reason all the EXs were 2 seat is that Boeing hasn’t had a single seat version of the -15 in production for quite some time. It was easier to continue the production line with the two seat model.
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Would be pretty wild to watch if they release any video. Glad no one got hurt!
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18 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
The SEALs involved with this incident are simply disgusting. The gunship was from my squadron the situation is still a sore point. Rob Harrison, now a retired CMSgt, was the DSO on board Grim that night and he fought hard to get Chappy recognized. Greta interview with Rob here.
I've unfortunately had pretty much a uniformly negative experience with SEAL leadership at the FGO and GO/FO level. The guys at the team level were usually pretty good but even there they usually weren't my favorite organization to work with. After looking at all the evidence I honestly don't understand how they thought stonewalling Chapman's MOH was going to work out/be a good idea. Pretty atrocious behavior from the SEALs all around, and it's continuing.
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Anyone know if this is legit?
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21 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
Yup that’s a huge factor.
The brass balls of Ukrainian military personnel and civilians who ran towards the aggressors is what we all hope for in our people, how do you gauge the potential for that beyond surveying, personal contact and professional observation is beyond me. Probably someone has meaningful sociological/psychological research into this, probably classified, don’t know.
I think that idea, the will to fight, as an aggressor or as a defender, might be an equal concern for both sides. Chinese people travel a good bit, have relatives in the West, interact with Westerners and have relationships with the Taiwanese, they may not be interested in fight. That might be the opinion of the rank and file, also their families, how hard the CCP would go to suppress and intimidate that to prevent mutiny, IDK but probably methinks they are nervous about it. The CCP would rather postpone the invasion than cause internal instability.
Taiwan, I think it (the will to fight) would depend on if they see the West dithering after a few days, if we haven’t said screw it we’re in after 72 hours or so, I think despair could set in.
That’s a short window but given what the fight is likely to be, we probably have to jump in immediately.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThis data does exist; some of the three letters produce this type of product.
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1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:
Very wise words. And you don't need to be a dinosaur like cleared hot to see the effect 🤣😂. I was talking to a flight attendant recently going through one of the flight schools that shove you into the airlines as quickly as possible. I was stunned to hear that during her PPL training they regularly used the autopilot to get from the base airport to the outfields. Of course I then found out that her instructor was 22 years old that had been flying for a grand total of 2 years. There is going to be a wave of automation babies like we haven't seen in the long time.
This same instructor by the way told the flight attendant that PAPIs know what the closest airplane is and then display glideslope information specific to that aircraft, and airplanes behind shouldn't look at the papis until they are number one for landing. Yeah, we've all believed dumb things, but this is pretty wild for someone who's supposed to be teaching students how to fly instruments.
I see this quite a bit with guys who are early in the MC/HC-J syllabus I teach. The bulk of the guys/gals coming through training right now are T-1 sim only or T-6 only; they never flew an actual Phase 3 trainer. Their initial inclination on the early sorties in the sim is to engage the autopilot as quickly as possible after takeoff cause they're very unsure/hesitant about hand flying the airplane. The are also usually struggling SA wise and engaging the automation lets them not have to fly and think at the same time. It's very unfortunate where the AF is leaving these guys skill wise coming out of UPT.
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That was awesome!
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1 hour ago, Smokin said:
Much of this is self-induced by absurd over-classification. I did a TSP and everyone was told the location was classified. Finance accidentally typed the location into our travel orders and that resulted in their network being isolated for a day while comm went through and did whatever they do to fix that. Obviously finance was even less useful than normal during that time. We were told that we could tell our wives where we were going once we arrived in country. Meanwhile, the local national travel agents on base with zero clearance for anything booked ADVON on commercial flights and emailed us our tickets to the 'classified' location. Then we arrived to a reception of a dozen host country reporters to cover our arrival who had been told a month prior. We had to jump through all sorts of hoops pretending the location was a secret, but everyone knew where we were going and there was no real reason for it to be secret in the first place. Things like this make people desensitized to classified.
Agreed. It desensitizes people to things that are actually important.
About 7ish years ago SOCOM was on a big push to reduce the over-classification of things, the justification being that it was making it difficult to share and coordinate with our joint partners. The SOCOM DJ3 at the time was an Australian exchange officer; it was fairly ridiculous at times when he would have to leave meetings or SVTCs for things that were supposedly NOFORN. It's easy for any staff guy to slap NOFORN or no caveats on something as opposed to actually doing the work to classify something at the proper level.
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23 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:
Does it work as well as signal? That's a real question, I have no idea and never used any of that stuff when I was in.
If it does, then smack them on the dick and start enforcing this shit.
Unfortunately we're at the point where it is culturally ingrained to use unmonitored communication networks and treat classified like a nothing burger. That's going to be very difficult to root out, especially when each team is only interested in punishing the other side.
WICKR (the CUI app) is more cumbersome than Signal/Whatsapp but not overwhelmingly so; it’s better than it was a couple years ago. If a tech retarded guy like me can make it work anyone can.
The SIPR options aren’t hard. I had access to them as a peon O-5 staffer (on a little j staff). I’m sure at the NCA level they’ve got some pretty gucci shit. It’s just in this case, for whatever reason, people chose not to use them.
I don’t disagree with your point about people becoming complacent when handling classified. Unfortunately it seems the higher in rank/position some people get they feel the rules don’t apply to them. Anecdote: I once had a boss who we were fairly certain tunneled into an SVTC in the middle of an international airport with a jacket thrown over his head and the laptop.
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1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:
Anyways, obviously the .gov needs to pull it's head out of the sand and develop a SIPR app for high ranking members. It's pretty easy for a captain or low level staffer to go home and simply wait until they are back at work to play around with classified information, but once you hit a certain level there is no "off-duty time." Rather than pretend like everything is going to be discussed in a secure environment, just make a signal app clone for the government and you won't have to worry about some journalist being added to the chat. Keep it at Secret and below, ideally, but either way stop pretending like politicians are going to follow rules set up for a world before wireless.
There are currently multiple options for individuals with the need/requirement to access SIPR outside of their normal work spaces; they've been available for years. There's also an app /program that's available for that can be installed on your personal phone that's cleared for CUI level info.
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13 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
I just threw that in for fun but honestly if the AF gave me the keys and all these kids were going to get was the civ time in a program then go to a supersonic capable, 7G jet… I’d give them as much seat time as I could
Would landing a seaplane give directly translatable experience and knowledge to handle a T-7?
No but it would be more aviation experience handling multiple factors in 3 dimensions requiring strong fast response cognitive skills interlinked to hand/eye/seat of the pants that would likely lead to faster neurons in most students.
Probably would only take 2-3 weeks and the guys would likely wanna do it
But yeah it would be a very tradeable part of a good pre mil flying program for me, cool but not necessary
Icon A5 in Florida with weekends off. An enjoyable phase of training…
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI briefly spoke to this in my reply to Viper.
There is concern amongst AETC leadership about whether students will be able to handle the transition from a light twin straight to the T-7 (should the program ever get going) given the big disparities in performance between the two. There's no mass historical data that exists for that. Expect in the next few years the AF will send a couple of SGTOs from IPT to Italy to fly the M346, which supposedly has similar performance to the T-7 IOT get data on how students perform.
Now if the bulk of students can't handle the transition, I don't know what the AF is going to do; I doubt they have a plan for it yet.
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9 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
Copy that
More time is better than phoning it in
If the AF wants to go to only one trainer so be it, don’t agree but if so then buy a sizable and diverse civilian training experience to develop them before going to a high performance jet…
Basic, acro, multi, seaplane and STOL by contract with mil oversight during training
0.1% chance for that much pre mil training flying (if the straight to T-7 COA happens) but one must post what one thinks…
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkCurrent plan for IPT is Private, Instrument, and Multi ratings. I doubt this will change. Flight schools involved in the program must provide the same instrumentation across all the platforms students will be training on.
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14 hours ago, viper154 said:
Last I heard the long term future for T-6/or a successor was undecided, reading between the lines I think the goal is IPT straight to a T-7 for everyone. I wouldn’t put money on anything at this point given all the thrash with syllabi the last couple years, but for anyone looking to be an AF pilot and start training in the next 5-10 years, I would expect some seat time in a T-6.
This is the Bobs' long term vision, at least for now. There's some concern about students being able to handle going from a Diamond or Piper twin straight to a much higher performance jet. Expect in the next few years for a couple UPT SGTOs to go to Italy and fly the M346 to see whether students can handle the transition.
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13 hours ago, dream big said:
Who the hell is this Liquid Guy? Isn’t he some fake retired general or something?
You're thinking of a different Liquid. He doesn't come onto the BO forums anymore.
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Glad to see that most, if not all survived.
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Glad they got out, that thing came down fast.
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Little long but hilarious for anyone that's had to do Cyber or Security training.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
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OSI searched his house, so the accusation definitely rose above the level of the standard things guys get removed from positions for i.e. ARI, money, or putting one’s genitals where they don’t belong.