Strategic Trends

Sorry Air Force. Wasn't familiar with your game.

Just remember, these people are doing this for money and dopamine. They do not have their country’s interests at heart, nor those of their countrymen. They are self-interested and not intelligent.

Cannot be more fucking proud of our military. We're the fucking GOATs. Medals ASAP. Wow.

@Bhess Grain of salt on my end though. Just vague memory call backs

@Bhess This is far from my domain but I've been under this impression as well. That towards the end of WWII the USSAF did studies on the .50 vs. Contemporaries and came to the conclusion that magazine depth and scale of production offset kinematic inferiority and this continued to Korea

P-47D-27+/M/Ns was superior than the F-51 for Korea and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't. The P-47N was a juggernaut that would of eviscerated Yak-3/9 LA-7/9s. It wasn't a contest. I don't even play warthunder

@FSKrieger22 Mustang propaganda

@StrategicTrends There were no spare parts available to support F-47 operations, while enough still existed for the F-51D in 1950 thefreelibrary.com/Why+the+U.S.+A…

@Bhess Yup. Unironically why the Corsair was such an effective and reliable ground attack platform. It used the same double wasp R2800 found in the P-47 which was famously resilient to battle damage. Especially the later AU-1 variants

It barbered me that they used the 51 for ground attack in n Korea when it was so vulnerable to ground fire. Its oil cooler gets hit and it’s going down. Looked it up and asked why all those 47s weren’t shipped to Korea and the AF thought it was a waste of money. Would have saved pilots lives.

@xtremem0derate He doesnt actually care about the people who serve

@StrategicTrends Hard to belive trump wouldn’t be out doing a victory lap if this was true

The second source Ive seen asserting the WSO was rescued. I pray to god this is authentic. There isn't better news than this today. Lets go.

CW3 Marzan, SFC Amor, SFC Tietjens, SGT Coady, MAJ O'Brien, CPT Khork, SGT Pennington. Each of these Soldiers gave their lives in service to their country. Not to mention the ~250 other Soldiers who have been wounded in action.

🇺🇸🇯🇵 "It's unclear whether there is a risk the US would miss the overall March 2028 deadline to complete shipments" Always funny when the text contradicts the headline. Now, let's talk about Tomahawk. Japan just received their first missiles last month. If deliveries are scheduled for completion in March 2028, that's 200 missiles per year. Raytheon has production capacity for 600 per year, which is being increased to 1000 per year. Production capacity is shared between new built Block Vs and recertification/upgrade of Block IVs to Block V. The US orders very few new Block Vs for itself, so FMS orders are key to meeting the production line's Minimum Sustaining Rate of 90/year. Bloomberg claims that in 2025, 100 new Block Vs were produced and 240 recertifications. The delivery schedule on the P-1 has 165 new Block Vs for the US and 208 recertified Block Vs in FY2025. Either way we're talking about a little over half of total production capacity. That still leaves room to deliver all of Japan's missiles with some left over for US orders, which still haven't even increased. The US does not need more production capacity for themselves until they place some significant orders. This will likely only happen if Tomahawk procurement dollars are boosted for FY2027, which is not imminent. If the US feels that it needs to replenish its Tomahawk inventory more quickly because of INDOPACOM requirements, they are better off just delivering the missiles to Japan, because CENTCOM can't steal those. Tomahawks in JSDF inventory honestly provide greater deterrence in the region.

This will be incredibly damaging to serious efforts to sustainably increase defense spending. Especially if cutting healthcare and other services is on the table. It will further polarize defense into a partisan issue.

@GBU39SDB Silence my son

The Wildcat really deserves the namesake of the Navy's F/A-XX/NGF the more I think about the F4Fs legacy. Hear me out. Silly thread. I grew up on IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles/Aces Expansion Pack/Pacific Fighters/1946. In fact I still play to this day, making over 25 years..

For these reasons alone; the critical role it played for duration of an extremely vulnerable time for the US Defense Industrial Base to produce platforms that could win the war, say nothing of the campaign themselves; it deserves the new F/A-XX program. The Wildcat II.

much of this time period were in the battles and campaigns that broke the strategic inertia of the Japanese and eventually wrestled the imitative to the allies. The F4F Wildcat was central to these.