BTW, the vast majority of the SOCOM/JSOC community goes through “drown proofing”. It’s not special. Passing out is extremely common, but they there is no standard that says they intentionally do it.
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Don’t be an idiot. I spent years between Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m well aware of PJ’s. There’s a reason I said “unbelievably highly trained”. I know guys that have been through Superman school. I’ve lived with them, and the vast majority of the time, they’re flying medevac for injured soldiers, and any and all foreign…
They can punch ‘em off the rails at any range. No pilot, especially with a stealth advantage, is going to loft AMRAAMs at it’s absolute max range unless he’s just trying to scare an opponent, or force an opponent onto the defensive.
Oh very good call. I’m sure that’s probably it. Western AF’s do the same thing but the missiles generally don’t look like copies of their combat variant.
Very very little, if any. That being said, the F-22 can only openly trade link-16 info with other F-22’s (and im sure other select platforms). But for the emissions reasons, they can only receive all that link data from other platforms, not broadcast back to them.
Yeah, I didn’t mean to make it seem as though that isn’t fostered anywhere in places like Russia, it certainly is. It’s just a different mentality and mind-set. During the Soviet period, those kinda guys were generally from an intelligence, or intelligence backed paramilitary unit, while the vast majority of their…
They don’t rescue shit. Their unbelievably highly trained PJ sit on FOBs, waiting for some hodji to have a fucking a heart-attack, then they scramble a Blackhawk and go get ‘em, so highly trained western doctors can save his ass and win hearts and minds. Oh, they go get pilots if they get shot down.
Eh i don’t personally believe it was that malicious. I remember those days. America respected Russia. Russians and Americans see alot of similarities in each other. I legitimately believe that the vast majority of people felt bad for the average Russian citizen and wanted to help.
Being a western sounding narrator, and probably being familiar with the MiG-29’s impressive acrobatics, I just kinda assumed he meant the Fulcrum.
I like that one too, plus, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. Good find.
Do you really think so? Nobody even thought of Russia, one way or another when I was in the military. I’m not kidding, I never heard “but the Russians....”, or “if the Russians....” when I was in uniform.
You’re right for the most part, although I think the Israeli’s have some gun kills post-Vietnam era. There was also the A-10 that gunned an Iraqi helo...
Spetsnaz is a catch all term for Russian special ops. There are a multitude of units that fall under that umbrella. Some are amature thugs. Actually most are amaetur thugs. That sell their services to the highest bidder. Law enforcement is very different in Russia, and many of these guys are hired to do that stuff.…
They aren’t. I’ve done FID all over the world, training many of these guys. Most country’s “best of the best” are on par with Marine infantry or Army light/airborne units. That not to say that there aren’t some on par, but on as a whole, American SOF forces are different breed. SAS, SBS, GROM, folks like that turn out…
What? Russia will never procure enough SU-35s to match F-22 numbers, much less the F-35. The TA-50, if it even goes into production, will even be worse off. Take a look at the largest military air arms in the world. Not a one can match 190 Raptors. Much less 190 Raptors+how ever many F-35s.
Pretty much. Fire an AMRAAM, follow it with another 5-10 seconds later. That second missile is impossible to avoid if he just pulled that kinda crap to dodge the first (and assuming it actually worked, which is questionable).
I’m gonna try to get you to punch out before you go down in flames. Help me help you.
They’re actually gold-plated, only a few atoms thick. Keeps electromagnetic emissions from entering or leaving the cockpit. Lower radar returns than traditional glass cockpits, disperses laser energy, etc.
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