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@thalex30 @OnDisasters We lost something like 50 jets in the first 20 days of Desert Storm.

@MCCCANM @OnDisasters People seem to forget that Iraq (both 1991 and 2003), Bosnia and Serbia all shot down American planes. If anything it's a testament to how much more competent the USAF is that they hadn't even got a hit in until now.

Stealth is extremely good, but there are systems still aimed by eyeball & with enough rounds in the air, eventually you’ll fly into one of them. I wouldn’t read too much into this.

In the 1991 Persian Gulf war, the United States had 86 aircraft destroyed or damaged by enemy action. Of those, more than half (~51) were attrited within the first 20 days of the onset of the air war. (Gulf Airpower Survey, p. 61.)

@MrJohnson860 I see your point, but Air Supremacy doesn’t mean there is no risk.

@MCCCANM We’ve been told USAF has air supremacy over Iran. It’s possible we had our guard down. Complacency kills. Fortunately the pilot was able to make it back to the US airbase.

@___yemre___ How so? The plane landed safely. It wasn’t even shot down.

@IainMacEanruig I don’t think so. Something like 492 maybe? I might have my numbers mixed up.

@MCCCANM Did it go down on SR50?

Kudos to Orlando (MCO) approach control. Stayed cool & calm tonight to help a pilot in distress. Great point outs. To ‘22M’…I hope you made it. Tough job, landing on a freeway at night. We were all rooting for you & hoping to hear you’re alright.

@msabouri No, I’ve seen footage of F-18s doing gun runs, and a bunch of jets loaded with JDAMS, which are gravity bombs. There are still some standoff weapons, yes.

@MCCCANM Seems like all our aircraft are taking off from around a thousand miles away and attacking Iran with mostly standoff munitions. Or am I getting that wrong?

Operation ‘Desert Storm’ was launched by an intensive, 38 day air campaign from January 17th to February 23rd, 1991. Beginning Feb 23rd, Coalition ground forces entered Kuwait. The air campaign was commanded by Lt Gen Chuck Horner & is considered masterful. The Coalition flew over 100,000 sorties, paving the way for ground forces to retake Kuwait. The air campaign proceeded in *roughly* three phases: Phase 1 focused on destroying Iraqi Command & Control elements, as well as air defenses, lasting approximately 3 days. Phase 2 focused on establishing air supremacy over Iraq & Kuwait as well as hunting for SCUD missile launchers; it lasted approximately 9 days. Phase 3 was battlefield preparation, striking Iraqi army units to destroy or significantly degrade their capabilities. It lasted about 26 days before the ground invasion began. The ground invasion lasted approximately 100 hours before the objective of liberating Kuwait was met. (Important to note that just because the campaign moved from one phase to the next did not mean they stopped striking targets from the previous phase, or did not strike targets from the next phase. It just meant they had struck enough to feel comfortable moving into the next phase & shifting priorities…Phases 1 & 2 in particular kind of blended together. The actual number of days of each phase is also a rough approximation) The campaign was innovative in part because it aimed to achieve “effects” rather than just destroying the enemy. If you can leave an Army in the field that is incapable of fighting rather than having to destroy that Army, the effect is essentially the same. While the campaign was a success, certain lessons were learned. For one, the SCUD hunt was not very successful, in part due to a lack of surveillance aircraft that could find them. Another lesson learned was the over-destruction of certain infrastructure, particularly electricity generation, not all of which was intentional. The military needed a way to disable infrastructure without destroying it so they could be quickly brought back online after the conflict ended. A final lesson was the need for more & better precision weapons, as well as equipping all strike jets to employ them (many could not at the time). Some other important context: The Air Force alone was almost twice as big then as it is now in terms of aircraft, in part because of the recency of the Cold War. While “smart” bombs existed, they were limited in number & capability, whereas today we have a virtually unlimited supply of much more capable munitions such as JDAMS & virtually all strike aircraft can carry them. Tom Clancy wrote a best-selling book on the campaign, titled “Every Man A Tiger”. It has much more detail…I’m simplifying this dramatically. Hope that’s context that might help. Again, I must warn that I’m way oversimplifying this…you’ll need to study up to have a true understanding of how a modern air campaign works.

@mandarin19791 It only happened about 3 hours ago. Others have found it on their ADS-B trackers.

@MCCCANM Weird I can't find a single mention of this incident.

@usacomp2k3 Interesting! Yeah, that looks right. Sounded like he was initially looking for that airport but couldn’t find it.

@MCCCANM Looks like the feeder on my car got it. Will check the main one after work.

@sborden76 About 04:55 to 05:00 local time.

@MCCCANM What time was this? I live here and didn’t hear a thing about it.

@usacomp2k3 About 04:55 to 05:00 local.

@MCCCANM When was this? Would love to look at my tower’s ADSB logs to see.

@SheepskinUTD @RAFMildenhall @boomers_ass Great shot!

100ARW KC-135R turning on for finals through the setting sun. I took this a couple of weeks ago, a week later, KC-135 Zeus95 was lost, with 6 souls on board. ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them’ @RAFMildenhall @boomers_ass @MCCCANM

@HerbCarmen Happy Anniversary!

@Combat_learjet They’ve got to get the trains sorted out & a backup system. It’s often easier to get on a train & ride it to the end, then get on one to baggage claim than to just try to get on one to the baggage claim.

Denver was a hot mess today.

@BPickle 😂😂

@MCCCANM Very useful

I think these things are useful in some places, probably not in others. CO just built one, the I-25 Greenland Wildlife Overpass. They did it in less than a year at a cost of $15 million. CA? Already been 4 years, $114 million & still not done. That’s grifting!

@CrakerJackShad @OnDisasters It looks pretty real. Might be slowed down some, but I’m not sure!

@OnDisasters @MCCCANM This has to be AI

Kalitta 747 on a shaky arrival at Miami

@PezeshkiCharles Apparently you’re correct, sorry. Sounds like they just started another one & are planning a bunch more. I doubt they cost $114m each…

@MCCCANM That was a while ago. 8 years?

@Maikeru_981 TK was teaching it for a while if you found yourself floating. I’ve got a couple buddies that use it, too.

@MCCCANM Did you learn that at TK or come up with it yourself? Over 6,100 hours in the -300, -500, -700, -800, -900. Never heard of this 'technique'. Perhaps flying on speed and flaring appropriately would be the better option. 🤔🤔😉😂

On the 737 NG, a trick to stop “floating” (not touching down & going too long) is to bank & try to get the right main landing gear to touch. When it does, the spoilers on the wing deploy, cutting lift & setting you down. Has to be the right, the left doesn’t do it. Doesn’t work on the MAX, which requires both gear to touch.