I think you’re just blending some really rare circumstances with practices that haven’t been prevalent for decades to make it appear as though aviators are continually on some powerful narcotic.

Don’t want you to think I blew you off, just have been wracking my brain over something comprehensive, that I’ve personally read, that speaks to partisan efforts during WWII.

Plenty of people also sink into depression, addiction, or worse because of far less.

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You don’t know anything about the group of people you’re lambasting.

This is the equivalent of having a medical license revoked or being disbarred (with the potential for criminal charges tacked on).

You’re serious aren’t you?

Oh shit, sorry for the above response. I was being short because I didn’t even look at the user too closely, just figured it was the original douchenozzle that got me writing that in the first place. Sorry pal.

Any military history book will have these facts AND more.

Fun Fact: The Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) utilizes a Mi-24 as OPFOR and it is intimidating as fuck. I’m sure we felt like that because it was so alien but man, it is a scary sight to see running in straight on your position. I would assume Russians would probably feel the same way about the Apache.

Great vid. For some reason I hadn’t seen that one already.

“Backblast area clear!”

Look scrub, I already said in another post I was posting under the influence after snapping an ankle.

Entitled dickhead? Really guy? I really don’t ride much but I’ve ridden enough to understand what TimSee is saying. It’s a completely different experience. It’s like the difference between a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. While I agree people do use that urge to discredit someone’s comment, it is completely…

What book is this? I’d love to take a look at it. The Hind has been one of my favorite aircraft since I can remember.

I’m aware of the fact that they decided not to go with the SU-25T long ago. It’s still a bummer though. I’ve yet to see any of the Frogfoot variants be as capable as the T model would have been.

So what exactly does the F-14 have going on? IRST and something else like an RWR?

Before reading this I just wanna say thanks to Tyler. This is great content. I’d never even heard of this and while I’m no super-duper expert on these things, but it’s a snowy day in hell when I hear about something of this magnitude that was done so long ago. I’ve never even came across this (or if I did, i forgot,…

They need to go ahead with the SU-25T. I’m really disappointed that they haven’t. For my money the Tango variant is the best variant...by far.

Thanks pal. Feel free to critique whatever I was wrong about or elaborate on something I was too vague with. Somebody called me an amateur expert at work one day (even though I work in the industry and thus I am an “expert”) and it kinda stuck. I have my genres that I have a photographic memory for, then other stuff I…