Why not use it? Doesn’t do anybody any good sitting in the hangar. Pilots gotta get their hours. Might as well do something productive with it.
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Who told you they needed to operate from improved airfields? They’ve done hundreds of air assault operations in Afghanistan, operating from a FARP and deploying troops in the same conditions as those that traditional helicopters experience. The Osprey was specifically built with operating from expeditionary…
You can’t just remove an animal or plant/tree species. It always snowballs into a big problem because of unforeseen circumstances. We’ve done that in the past, all over the country, and as a result everything gets thrown out of balance. Then you screw it up even more trying to fix the symptoms of your original action.
Wait what? Who is “they”? I assume you’re referring to state and federal forestry services? What would they want an A-10 for? That’s ridiculous. Additionally, nobody is “getting” anything. The aircraft still belongs to the Corps/DoD.
“...and the F-35 is a massive piece of shit. I read that somewhere once.”
“As far back as the start of Russia’s aerial combat operations over Syria we noted how shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles would have counterbalanced their airborne might.”
“Why he isn’t working for Defense One or Jane’s is beyond my mortal comprehension.”
Extremely, extremely unlikely. China has been pulling away in every aspect of their relations with the DPRK. If N. Korea started a stupid fight you can bet China would let them get what’s coming. They were 100x more friendly in the 1950's and the only reason they entered the Korean war was because they didn’t think…
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
It offers concealment, not cover. That’s lifesaving when enemy holding that beach will be waiting for those AAVs to start disgorging infantry.
You’re fine. No worries.
Tyler still hasn’t figured out you go to war with the military you have, not the military you’d like.
“Once again, the logical but unsexy solution loses. Defense contractors could not make tens of billions of dollars building and supporting it and masses of retiring Pentagon officials could not get cush carriers in the defense sector because of it.”
God I loved slaughtering rogues back in the day. Back when overpower was still a hard hitting crit that only became available when someone dodged. Charge, hamstring, Mortal strike followed by an overpower or two and it was night-night for high agility folks. Did the grind to high warlord. It was the worst gaming grind…
Except none of that defines a cruiser. To be a cruiser it literally has to fit between a BB and DD in terms of tonnage. That’s it. That’s why their armor and armament schemes have run the extreme gambit.
Not really. Only the “fast BBs” could keep up with a carrier battlegroup. Mainly the Iowas, N. Carolinas, and S. Dakotas. The other 80% of battleships that sailed with the carriers maxed out somewhere between 20 and 25 knots. USS Nevada could barely break 20 knots on a good day.
It’ll be fine. All of this whining is just sour grapes anymore. It’s already fine. As an airplane it’s more than good enough. People like the British believe that so vehemently they’re wrapping an entire capital ship in it’s success.
Not everyday you see Fulcrums flying with drop tanks. Nifty.
