Anyone know why the pilot towards the beginning of the video is holding a chem-light? Don’t get me wrong, I know all about chem-lights, including the IR ones, and have used literally thousands of them. That being said, I’ve spent plenty of time around military flight lines, and have seen pilots use IR chem-lights for…

Don’t listen to the people whining about the F-22 and F-35’s modest load out. The fact of the matter is, we haven’t needed to load aircraft up to the gills since Vietnam. Modern weapons have made the requirement of TER (triple ejector racks) on every pylon a bit redundant. Aircraft today are capable of hitting their…

Growlers, and other completely dedicated ECM/ELINT aircraft would add to it’s capabilities. How necessary is it? Who knows. That’s one of those things that is classified to a crazy degree. That being said, we know the F-22’s RWR and countermeasures suite includes it’s AESA radar, which all by itself has the potential…

Humor me a sec, I’m gonna change directions here. I’m gonna be in Romania, and a few other eastern Europen countries in a few weeks. Really looking foward to it as it’ll be my first time in many of those countries. Not sure how much free time I’ll have. Got any advice on places to go (more like things one shouldn’t…

They do, got to 3:14. You’ll see it between the main landing gear on the centerline. Unless they’re doing some super realistic training among themselves, or other select aircraft/countries they’ll always be operating with the luneburg lens, in touch with ATC, etc for safety reasons. No reason to be black hole in the…

For anyone wondering, go to 3:14 in Tyler’s attached video. The little thing centerline, between the main landing gear, is a luneburg lens (aka radar reflector). I’ve seen them in other places also, like between the canted tails.

He’s an ingrate of stunning proportions, don’t waste your time.

Trust me, they’re better than you. Just to give you an idea, I have a cousin that flys for the Navy (Super Hornets). It was a path he started down in grade school. To get accepted to the Naval Academy he had over a 4.0 GPA all four years. Captain of the football and baseball team. Student council president. Aced his…

No need to respond, just remember I said this years from now. Mark my words, in a decade you’ll be pretty happy about the Canadian move to go with the F-35.

Kinda depends. The Navy generally gives you a callsign because of something stupid you did. The Air Force on the other hand, assigns callsigns for all kinds of things, not always in jest or to poke fun. Other countries have their own traditions.

That’s exactly what that was. It was the mother of all dog and pony shows. I called it training in previous post and that’s not right. It’s a demonstration, they wanted people to get a good look at it.

Fuck man, I know what you’re saying. I mean what the fuck were they thinking? Fuck ‘em, those fucking motherfuckers.

You don’t even know what misogyny is. I bet you claim Israel is committing genocide too.

So because they’re having a private conversation at work, it’s unethical because the public pays for LE? Seriously? You’re special. How do you know they weren’t on break? Even if they weren’t they can still BS while working. According to you, a public figure can only discuss work things while at work?

Seriously? Who gives two shits? It was a couple of guys talking about the exact same stuff that all men talk about. Every woman I’ve ever met also does the same thing.

They were ours. A lot of equipment in that video was US military.

Either that or because our leadership 60 years ago contractually obligated us to do so. South Korea is also a MNNA (major-non NATO ally). Aka, they might as well be a NATO country. The only difference is, NATO doesn’t have mutual defense pact with South Korea (but the US does). Has nothing to do with the “military…

No it’s not. It’s because we’re obligated to have those troops in S. Korea because of the DPRK. Otherwise it would be far easier, and far safer to stage those troops in Japan. No they’re there to directly check the DPRK. As a political tool, the Chinese couldn’t give two shits about a measly 30k troops.

Phantoms with a full load-out of MK82’s bombing a jungle? Deja vu. That video also does an awesome job portraying the depression/elevation on the Apache’s M261 (rocket pods). Whoever was asking me about that the other day, that’s exactly what it looks like and does. It also shows in great, detail the M1 lofting their…

Sounds like somebody had some frustrating experiences trying to get clearance from various TOC/TACs?