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Speed is life is WRONG!!! You gotta get down low, and slow, so you can use your eyeballzzzz, not those expensive whiz bang sensorz. You gotta get down low and slow where your airframe can take a pounding from every peasant with a slingshot, or else you don't care about THA TROOOOPZZZZ!!!

Quoted from Michael Peck: "If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." ~ John Steinbeck

This comment makes me laugh, because it's pure conjecture. Most of what extended the F-22's development timeline had to do with slashing of the development budget, extending of timelines, and the incremental drops of insufficient funding provided to the program at unpredictable timelines. The "capabilities" differences between the F-22 and the YF-23 based on the differences in airframe design were NEVER "corrected." Corrected is not the right word, because it was a difference in philosophy between the two designs, one favoring more of a heavy interceptor vs. one favoring more of an air supe

Oh, you would be interested to know? If he works for the program and knows anything about the LO materials/coatings/exterior finish of the jet and posts it on this board, I'm sure the local OSI/NCIS would likewise be VERY interested to know. You're not going to get any answers to this line of questioning. At least, I certainly hope you don't. And if you do, I expect this thread will cease to exist in very short order, as will MarkW's account. K, thx bye!

They already do that.

Quite certain they are now grounded. Rightfully so, all things considered: F-35 Grounded - Current as of 4 July 14

Funny, I seem to remember an awful lot of work that went into earning a pilot training slot, and then an almost inconceivable amount more work in order to claw my way to the top of the rankings and earn the right to TRY and complete IFF and FTU before I was considered a fighter pilot. I guess the blessings of nobility must not have extended to the 33% or so of my pilot training training class that washed out, or the 25% of my FTU class that likewise never made it to the Combat Mission Ready status that makes you a full-up round as a fighter pilot. Oh, right, I also don't have 20/20 vision, a

Luke is first, then Ops-2, which will be a PACAF location yet to be announced. VTANG is theoretically next, followed by Ops-4, which is in a yet to be announced theater.

Thanks for proving my point: Internet knowledge always trumps any actual experience. You said I had nothing to do with the F-35 whatsoever. I am NOT a subject matter expert on the aircraft, but I have been involved with an awful lot of planning for its bed down, training plans, integration, and eventual operational use as part of Joint Air Operations. Never said I know all. And you must be a peach to work with. I hope you're a field service rep, because you're a people person, clearly. I'm sure the customers love you. Thanks for the zipper suited sun god compliment though. I won't t

FTU crosstalk for syllabus development, 5th Gen Integration Development, PACOM OPLAN rewrite/validation 5th Gen lead, PACAF F-35 site survey lead for Alaska base consideration, F-35 systems test/experimentation in NORTHERN EDGE, PACAF 5th Gen Conference lead, F-22/F-35 integration roadmap conference, and a couple dozen hours in the -35 sim. So basically, nothing. More employment and operational planning focused than engineering and development. Given what happened to the last Raptor guy who posted and responded to guys online--with the encouragement and direction of his supervisors, I mig

I'm sure those studies will be freely provided by whatever think-tank is selected, completely nonpartisan, and will include fair studies of the Air Force's overall modernization plan, backed up by global threat and intel studies for the next 10 years. No? Well, lets throw exorbitant sums of money on studies that the affected Congressmen will find insufficient, thus forcing additional studies of the studies. In the meantime, Congress can back to the real business of forcing DoD to save money by cutting programs (as long as it's not in any of their own relevant districts, of course).

Yeah, well, as you've already pointed out, a good chunk of that material is not releasable, particularly once it's all been compiled into a kind of "capabilities summary" of where we are and what we can do with a certain number of in-theater assets. However, you want numbers? Okay...by no means is it all encompassing, but let's look at a slice of a B-1 deployment from 2012. 7th Bomb Wing -- 9 bombers deployed -- 6+ month deployment -- Sustained at least 1 B-1 over Afghanistan for EVERY MINUTE of their deployment, available for on-call tasking (XCAS) -- Provided more than 25 per

Not the A-10, that's for sure. Depending on which set of accounting numbers, the A-10 has flown maybe 15-20% of all CAS taskings in Afghanistan. That leaves 80-85% of them being flown by other platforms, including F-16s, F-15Es, and F/A-18s of all variants. Throw in a few odd Harrier sorties. If you've got those numbers in a releasable format, by all means, feel free to post them. However, in Afghanistan, you're going to find that the preponderance of weapons dropped belongs to the bomber community. Their on-station time and total ordnance carriage capabilities mean they've serviced

Wut?

I always find it odd to see this statement so widely proliferated. This isn't how we fight anymore....there are not "USAF strike packages" and "USN strike packages." The JFACC owns all airpower not retained for USN CVN defense or USMC organic force support. And in both of those cases, any excess sorties are usually chopped to the JFACC for employment. So the Growlers provide the EW support to JFACC MAAP (Master Air Attack Plan) ATO fragged sorties, which are put together typically by a Mission Planning Cell/Center at an AOC. There are LNOs from all services and force providers at the AOC

Hearkens back to the days of Air-Land Battle, with defined FSCL, FLOT, etc. etc. However, the concept is still valid. In preceding discussions, I kept the "B" for simplicity's sake in discussion, but it is still doctrinal as "Air Interdiction." It is a subset of the Air Force's core function of Global Precision Attack. From AFDD 1: It's on the spectrum of precision air attack operations between CAS and Strategic Attack. We haven't really done it for the past 10+ years, but it's still AF doctrine in support of JP-1, and we still have TTPs and training for AI.

All of the above extracted from "Shake and Bake: Bombing in the A-37 Dragonfly," by Robert F. Dorr, Combat Aircraft Monthly, Vol 15, No3.

Well then, since you've basically admitted you're trolling, for the sheer heck of entertaining myself, allow me to refute a few of your statements. (if it's good enough for a bus driver at the bar with an Apple Toy, I figure, what the heck?) The A-10 can't/doesn't do BAI? Well, crap, I guess somebody better tell them that, so they can take those pages out of their tactics manual. A good half of their "Employment" chapter of AFTTP 3-1.A-10 is dedicated to "Air Interdiction," which they define as occurring in an increased risk environment (air superiority not achieved, dense surface-to-air th

Well, ain't you just cooler than the other side of the pillow? What do you fly? Is it fast? Does it go high? Does it get you chicks? Hang on, hang on, hang on....let me get my wife in here to read this, so you can drop her panties.

Nope.

This thread is #awesomesauce.

No offense, Stephane, but this is a horrible idea. I thought it was a horrible idea when Tomnod first announced it, and I think it is now. You have too many rank amateurs, with no connection to the investigation, and no ability to pursue legitimate leads, potentially wasting thousands of hours. And in the unlikely event they DO find something, they can raise enough of a ruckus to distract professional efforts from the search. For example, look at what "3 million Redditors using Tomnod's images from Digital Globe" deduced a week ago: Malaysia Airlines plane is in Malacca Strait, says crowd