How does that work? They must still have a fallback MOS? It seems as though they’re now allowing a guy to attend a WOCS following basic/AIT/OSUT? Haha if they allow them to quickly become WOs upon enlistment it kinda defeats the purpose of having WOs in the first place! Weird. I’m only familiar with the aviation…
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Absolutely. It was a massive undertaking. I’ve got a book kicking around somewhere that is specifically about Operation Fortitude. It’s about 500 pages I think haha.
I don’t need to watch Fox News. My first deployment ever was to the Balkans. I’m well aware of what happened. Coalition air power struck when and where they chose. You keep ringing that F-117 bell as if it’s something to be proud of. We’re all well aware of what happened there. I suggest YOU watch some more TV if you…
What didn’t work? That ghost army kept Wehrmacht and SS Divisions pinned down for DAYS after the Normandy landings. Hitler refused to allow units be detached for Normandy because he still believed the main blow was going to fall at Calais. In their wildest dreams, SHAEF didn’t think the ruse would be that effective.
True. They sure kept coalition airpower from curb stomping them for days and days.
Fun Fact: The Spitfire had what i call a yokel-stick.
It’s for internal consumption. Even if nine out of ten people laugh in your face, that tenth person, who now believes his country can produce military technology on par with the US, is a big win. Censorship is still a big deal in Iran. If they show thirty seconds of that trash during the evening news, alot of Iranians…
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Hell yes. Dunno how you can highlight engines of that time frame and forget the R-2800. I prefer my Double Wasp in this flavor :
Warrant Officers are not enlisted, and therefore not NCOs. There are million different pipelines.
I’m wondering if we won’t in the future though. Using the F-35 to designate and cue weapons for missile truck following S-Hornets would be a stunning leap forward for naval aviation assets.
“Yeah i’m not holding my breath for autonomous machines being given the ability to make kill commands themselves, even if the tech existed. We don’t even let human fighter pilots do that most of the time right now...”
It’s significantly more than a name change. It’s basically a whole new airplane. Unfortunately it’ll never go operational unless they secure some export partners as the Navy said they weren’t interested.
Well it’s a heavier aircraft, but mainly its because of the underwing pylons. There was some kind of issue, don’t remember what, but they had to cant the pylons at an angle and its produces tons of drag.
I’m not sure exactly. I got promoted and don’t really spend much time as an analyst anymore. As a result, I don’t really see all the obscure things like that anymore.
Man where to start haha. You should do some research on that F-16 vs F-35 drama (which is what I assume you’re alluding to). Turns out it was simply a test and tune for the F-35. Not a mock dogfight where an F-16 won. In fact the exact opposite is true. When F-35s flew against F-16s at Green Flag they dominated.
Wait what? I know Tyler has been beating that drum forever. He also seems to think it’s a relatively new practice. We’ve been doing it for decades. In fact it’s about all we do because it’s far cheaper and more efficient. The cost and time frame would be ten-times worse than they are presently. What Tyler advocates is…
It’s been discussed a million times and the consensus is always “not necessary”. Which I agree with. There is no reason to undertake all of that. It wouldn’t just be engines. They’d have to completely redesign the wing box which would be a huge undertaking.
Fully loaded, as in max fuel and a weapon on every station? Probably not a sea level but at high altitude it can.
IMO you’ve got it backwards. I don’t doubt for one second China is going to field both of those aircraft and that they’ll be pretty good. For monetary reasons, I see the Chinese being far more capable of fielding a true 5th gen aircraft in large enough numbers to make a difference.