I don’t know man, how many threads on Baseops lately have devolved into garbage political pissing matches. Was kinda nice to have one dedicated to other funny shit.
I’m in no way, shape or form associated with AO so I can’t speak to the capes of the aircraft. I can say that this guy’s reasoning/data analysis on why he thinks it’s gonna be the AT-6 made a lot of sense to me. Official announcement is supposed to come by the end of the month.
https://apple.news/Aihp0C36kQ1aTjWfBO2UYCg
also looks like we’re pushing the Ukrainians more HIMARS, which I think is very positive, wish we would’ve done this far earlier in the war.
I for one am glad that my tax dollars are directly contributing to Russians burning to death in exploding combat vehicles. Example above, St. Javelin doing work.
Actually most of it centered on how much the requirements are severely limiting the pool of potential applicants (several people/retired guys said they’d happily move to XL if this was a GS-13 gig). And also how much the pay would suck. And they standard wheels coming off/dumpster fire/this will work as well as the dryers downrange type stuff.