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TaiidanTomcat

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  1. Seeing as they kept making sure to paint the Bats in 2018 as a hot dog outfit with a cavalier attitude toward safety and selfies (Cardinal sins) I thought it would be worth a post
  2. http://alert5.com/2020/01/31/co-of-vmfa-225-fired-for-making-low-level-pass-during-sundown-ceremony/ slightly on topic? CO fired for low level pass during sundowner ceremony
  3. *Laughs in California bullet train.* As I alluded to earlier its more than money as well. might have to revisit this one. The last guy did a big infrastructure package. while also expanding wars and winning peace prizes. good times. Reform is really the answer. if 90 percent of your money is being wasted the solution shouldn't be "dump 190 percent more money" to get the job done. even things like education are in some dire straights AND its looking fairly outdated and outmodded in a lot of different ways. Absolutely astounded in the days of smart phones
  4. The F-35 was the first time I ever heard of that nondescript fellow riding it. He really wanted that for his home state. Really makes you think.
  5. its about 2.4 billion, but who's counting? I don't think its going anywhere. the latest budget was bipartisanly approved of course which is deeply comical in some cases actually expanded by the folks who are super duper mad at the current commander and chief. you'd think it would be crazy to fund and give such weaponry to a commander and chief who we are convinced is so evil and dangerous and racist and all. but they actually voted to give him even more firepower than orginally requested. luckily one of the big authors of the additional spending un f
  6. I agree. Theres no successful track record, which is what I was alluding to. The solution to someone showing criminal irresponsibility is to give them more responsibility? there is absolutely no reason to think the US government can fix the problems it has, let alone take on more of them. There was a swede joking about this on F-16.net. that his country took a vote and decided for world peace so they barely needed an air force now. its an increasingly small world. even if we decided to set up an awesome sauce closed sphere, Theres no reason to
  7. india and china are more than 3.7 billion combined? see my sig line. its "generous" just not the way you think people who think we can raid the defense budget for money are in some very rude awakenings. Its not that I don't understand its a lot-- because it is--, its that its not enough to make up for whats being proposed by a lot of people running for office. Cutting even 200 billion isn't going to be some windfall in a budget thats 4.7 trillion. and proposals what would bring it up to double digit trillions per year.
  8. yep. but I don't see that getting any better. If we are going to say a man can decide (self diagnose?) hes a woman one day, its really hard to tell him to be quiet, and that hes wrong, and that the doctor says thats not what he is. We then furthermore can't tell the doctor he is wrong, and this "woman" is stunning and brave. But then be mad when people say they don't trust doctors and those vaccines. the older I get, the more i understand that emperor has no clothes story. made no sense when I was younger. yep. But for some reason
  9. why do you hate diversity, comrade? we are all equal, since we are all equal we are all interchangeable. Dunning Krueger effect --the country!! but yes you are right. to bring it full circle: are we really trying to say selfies and naughty call signs got those men killed? if not, why was it brought up? If only you guys didn't have naughty names and adulterers in your ranks... yeah it wouldn't be functioning gear and time to get proficient with it that would help-- just gotta clean up the lingo and take more cold
  10. All those intellectuals haven't been able to solve even basic problems. Ronald Reagan was famously a dumb dumb, yet he knew after the 1983 Beirut bombing to leave. "Smart power" decided to take iraq and afghanistan and expand it into even more wars, drone strikes, regime changes, while also surging in afghanistan and then "returning" to iraq oh and just for good measure lets just launch a thumb into the Russian eye with the eastern european games we have been playing (and playing very poorly) did I mention Gitmo is still open? this has been absolutely disastrous. its not "anti in
  11. Bored, John? You're seeing the bias of information saturation. we've had accidents and failures before. worse than this in fact. during times when the military was "fixed" and "broken" the difference is you didn't hear about all of them. or didn't get the play by play you do now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ramp_disaster go cut the budget by 50 percent, and dump into other "social welfare" that's also criminally mismanaged. There's nothing you've said above that doesn't also apply to nearly every other sector of government. i
  12. Yep and its going to change yet again. The USMC's new force structure is due at the end of the month. They're going to tinker with the B and C mix amounts again. seems like More C's just a matter of how many more
  13. https://mobile.twitter.com/thef35/status/1211712139242684417 FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the 134th F-35 aircraft for the year today, exceeding the joint government and industry 2019 delivery goal of 131 aircraft. One hundred and thirty-four deliveries represent a 47% increase from 2018 and nearly a 200 percent production increase from 2016. Next year, Lockheed Martin plans to deliver 141 F-35s and is prepared to increase production volume year-over-year to hit peak production in 2023
  14. The first one wasn't exactly realistic either. LOL Maverick could have "broken time" got out, went back in. Crazier stuff has happened, believe me. reality is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make a little sense
  15. Well it was the USSR in the 1980s with the original but there were no names named, and it was a red star, and of course it was borrowing from the Gulf Of sidra incident, which was Libya. The Original wasn't about World War III afterall. but some sparring. The US Navy's sole kill this century is from Syria, and not China. My brother showed me this preview and it did its job well. I watched it and thought "Well, it might not be a CGI suck fest." IF i see it. And thats an IF. my expectations are pretty low. Most of the movies i see today my
  16. with Camoflauge you never can tell because you can't ask if anyone didn't see anything. following the war you'll notice a lot of transports and other big wing airplane also got camoflauge compared to the big white MAC scheme. A lot of that was evaluation from the very new at the time Red Flag exercises. just like nature if youre not a predator you'd better be able to hide from them. Paint may seemingly make no difference, but its one of the few defenses some attack aircraft have, and its not fool proof but it hopefully makes life just hard enough or distracting or confusing
  17. https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/photo-essay-first-british-jets-land-onboard-hms-queen-elizabeth-westlant-19-part-3/ absolutely Mad Lads!
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