This needs to come out of the greys for the sake of posterity.

I stood next to various combat controllers (JTACs/CCTs/TACPs/etc) during some of the F-35's very first forays into CAS-type scenarios. They did fine. Training isn’t real world but calling for fire/sending a 9-line etc can be trained very, very realistically.

I KNOW the F-35 can provide A-10 quality CAS on an even or superior level. I twiddled my fucking thumbs a dozen times waiting on A-10s.

This is horrendous. Hey Gawker, churning out anti-F-35 and pro-A-10 articles by the boatload won’t save this blog. Other than ripping this article apart piece by piece, (which most of you have seen me do with regards to F-35 content) I don’t even know where to start. Just gonna leave it there.

Ladies and gentleman, this window licking idiot is what’s wrong with the F-35 program. They are keeping the populace in the loop and as a result we comments like this.

I think that all of them are on YouTube. There’s dozens of them plus their offshoot programs. One was called Wings of the Red Star (obviously about Russian aircraft but still really great to watch) and the other revolved around carrier borne aircraft but I can’t remember it’s official title.

Where’d you read this? In a book? I’d love to find and read it also.

I studied a couple different from of MA while growing up. Then spent about a decade in the Army and progressed up to being a lvl 3 combatives instructor. Also took quite a few courses, while in uniform, that were taught by civilians all over the world specifically for elite military and law enforcement. I’m pretty…

It serves a purpose while airborne as well. Look at many combat aircraft, they feature a two-tone paint job. Darker schemes on top, lighter on the bottom. If you’re looking at them from below they blend into the sky. If you’re looking at them from above they blend into the ground.

“At least one mobile home park is gone.”

I played video games with Iraqi kids, in their own homes, on more than one occasion. It wasn’t unusual at all to see video game consoles (albeit a bit old usually) when we were in someone’s home. Ya know, not “whitebread American men” that were concerned with war, hunger, poverty, and disease. I don’t think you know…

I have no clue. The fact that anybody would have to tell you this in the first place doesn’t help your case much.

You could be the epitome of computer/internet savvy, but if that streamer hasn’t provided any personal information it’s still completely worthless for anyone wanting to help. Twitch could potentially be subpoenaed (I’m not sure what info is mandatory to register a Twitch account) but that information would come far…

And why would they have his address? Do you have the address of all the people you’ve watched or followed on YouTube? Twitch is the exact same thing.

Agreed. I told my, very similar story, up above.

Haha it’s very true. Other than my two parents who are 63 and 69, absolutely everyone I know plays games. I don’t hang out with the gaming culture in any way. Some are serious gamers. Some simply play Bejeweled or Farmville. The majority fall somewhere in the middle. My anti-video game girlfriend loves to have a few…

It has nothing to do with strength.

It’s just a file photo of a Norwegian F-16 that attended the annual “Tiger Meet”. Google it if you like that paint scheme.

We’ve done similar things in the US.

Viper was actually the unofficial name during it’s testing phase, before Falcon was officially chosen. It just persisted inside the F-16 community until the current day when Viper generally became the most accepted/used moniker, regardless of your affiliation.