@OnDisasters My professional opinion only…the pilot and his squadron commander were invited to meet the OG to chat about the day’s flying.
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UserRedDawg
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Sent by a reader, F-35 having an involuntary touch-and-go. Does anyone know more details?
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The A-10 is kind of like a 50+ year old fix wing attack helicopter. Great aircraft but lots of corrosion and cracking issues including.
If it was up to me, I’d allow the Army to develop a new fix wing CAS acft to complement its attack helicopters. The AF could focus on other ground attack missions.
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@Discord_Lies Explain how both can be true. In a way that shows the A10 can’t succeed in the field when conditions are set.
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Answer the question. Have you ever been in a ground battle that required a 30mm gun run?
Or are you just talking shit as a mil fan boy?
Are you a combat veteran or no?
Otherwise….well… you know what to do.
Discord Lies@Discord_Lies
@Ami_Marisol Let the hog perish and buy 50 more F-15EXs.
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@deen_iii @FinalBattle24 No one is illegal on stolen land!
We just planned to send a few thousand undocumented immigrant soldiers, builders and mining engineers. And racist/Americaphobic Denmark threatened them with violence.
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Denmark secretly prepared to blow up Greenland's runways to stop U.S. aircraft: report foxnews.com/world/denmark-… #FoxNews
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The Pentagon is planning to maintain the National Guard's federal mission in Washington, D.C., until January 20, 2029, through the rest of President Donald Trump’s 2nd term.
The plan is in its final stages and just requires Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's final approval, U.S. officials tell ABC News.
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@AlSmash @mwstateofmind @awstar11 There’s also the Key West AF/Army CAS agreement portion of the discussion.
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@UserRedDawg @mwstateofmind @awstar11 I don't doubt that in the least. But even during its inception, the mafia absolutely despised the Hog. And for the last three decades, the Hogs have literally been in the crosshairs for retirement. The mafia kept pusging the 16 to replace the Hog for CAS cuz it was "sexier"
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Is there any weapon system left that we haven’t brought to this war?
Status-6 (War & Military News)@Archer83Able
Chairman of the JCS Gen. Dan Caine: "The A-10 Warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz."
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@Alman0031572584 @VinceDaoTV They also sponsored an insurgency in Thailand. Bastards killed my wife’s father. He was a farmer accused of informing.
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- North Korea invaded South Korea
- North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam
- Iraq invaded Kuwait
- Al-Qaeda attacked America
What are you even talking about? Retard.
MC Squared@mcsquared34
If wars were named after the aggressors instead of the victims we’d have: The American War 1950-1953 The American War 1955-1975 The American War 1981-1990 The American War 1990-1991 The American War 2001-2021 The American War 2003-2011 The American War 2026-
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@miami_rick @TimNaples @OnDisasters Excessive use of brakes during taxi used to be huge problem before carbon brakes.
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@TimNaples @OnDisasters When heavy thrust alone is good. When light we’ll shut an engine down and even 2 when very light (300 tons or less) to keep the brakes cool and not drag them.
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The 747’s flightdeck sits so high up off the ground that it truly is close to impossible to accurately ascertain the jet’s true ground speed while taxiing which is of the outmost importance with a jet that size especially during 90° or tighter turns. I’ve never flown a jet without ground speed displayed on either the Navigation Display or the Primary Flight Display (or on both) or on the Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator (EHSI) on the older 757s and 767s. Question for the wise elders… How did you monitor ground speed during taxi? I’ve seen the control interface unit for the Inertial Reference Units (INS) of yesteryear, did you monitor ground speed through there? How about jets before that without INSs? Just seat of the pants?
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@Tapas1776 @stevensongs She’d fall in love with the blue tongue.
Note: I disavow myself for making this offensive post.
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@stevensongs Some raging incel feminist is gonna snatch that poor fella up 😭
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@Tapas1776 @TheOnlyDSC @quibbler Sustainable for siphoning a few dollars here and few dollars there.
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America: *spends $200 billion on war in Iran*
American infrastructure:
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True about the AF wanting more modern acft but it’s also true it’s becoming increasingly difficult to maintain and it’s vulnerable to air to air threats.
They were built from 1972 to 1984 and were never intended to fly for 50+ years. There have been a lot of corrosion/cracking issues including a rewinging program.
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@RufusFirefly24 @wil_da_beast630 Was the kid born in the U.S. or trafficked here by his father?
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@wil_da_beast630 The main problem is that he was here in the first place when he had no reason to be
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I felt a bit bad for this kid, but remember that the whole thing always was that his father was a criminal...was an alien...ran and abandoned him, just etc. ICE didn't have a warrant for a five year old. They protected the abandoned kid.
Daddy just lost his case - it wasn't close - and is duly being deported.
The Minnesota Star Tribune@StarTribune
Report: Family of Columbia Heights 5-year-old detained by ICE loses asylum case, ordered deported startribune.com/liam-conejo-ra…
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@Tapas1776 @TheOnlyDSC @quibbler Seems like a lot of gas taxes collected money gets diverted to mass transit.
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@TheOnlyDSC @quibbler What state is this?
Do states need more funding?
Or should we audit waste and then re-assess?
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@Tapas1776 @3DrakaiNa Serious question…who’s still buying them?
MAYBE the drop fire stuff isn’t real…but why take chance?
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@UserRedDawg @MCCCANM As is your cope about allies not rushing to join your stupid disastrous war. I thought daddy had already declared victory 12 times last week. What's wrong 😿
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Nobody was planning on invoking Article V of the NATO Treaty.
It requires an armed attack against a NATO member in either Europe or North America, and doesn’t require military action. The only time it’s been invoked was after the U.S. was attacked on American soil on 9/11.
Clash Report@clashreport
German AfD Leader Alice Weidel: Trump is now requesting help for Iran. This suggests that they entered this mission without a clear concept. They should have thought about this beforehand, and I would warn against invoking Article 5 of the NATO treaty. Obviously, the Americans did not think about an exit strategy or how this is supposed to continue.
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@UserRedDawg @MCCCANM At least I'm not a blindly loyal serf who worships the oligarchy robbing me blind. What do North Koreans and Americans have in common? They both live in the best country on Earth
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unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Last year, Donald Trump Jr. invested in a rare earths startup at a $200 million valuation, per Bloomberg. Three months later, the U.S. government announced a major loan backstop. Now the company is valued around $2 billion, per Bloomberg
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@UserRedDawg @MCCCANM It's hilarious that you guys are now forced to be pro Epstein to defend your daddy 😅. What a mess. North Korea shit
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Frankly, I’ve found a great deal of the reporting about this conflict to be extremely poor at best and purposefully alarming at worst. The minesweeper/KC-135 parachute narratives are pretty bad too.
I’m a reminded of this Michael Crichton passage given my retired SNCO background.
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I'm not concerned. Unless Congress gets in the way of replacing them.
From a capacity measure we can build about 400 a year with ease, 600 is the max. They are expanding this currently to get to 1,000/yr. That's a lot of missiles to be used at once.
Unlike Russian and Iran who's missiles never hit anything, US TLAMs have a very high hit rate. Rarely do they miss.
Besides, there are plenty of other means we have to blow shit up.
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"The cost of replacing the first four days' worth of munitions would be $20bn-26bn. The problem, however, is more to do with scarcity than cost. America is thought to have used more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening days of the war, but the Pentagon had planned to buy just 57 new ones in the current fiscal year. There have been no deliveries of THAAD interceptors since 2023 and the Pentagon has not placed any new orders this year. A puny 39 interceptors are slated for delivery in 2027—six years after they were ordered." economist.com/briefing/2026/…
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