Or dump them out the tail end like the B-58, maybe?
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Most other military blogs have morons in the comments section, though. :p F/A is unique in that y’all are pretty tolerable to talk to.
I see you just plain ignored the drone. ;) I can’t seem to find operating costs for an OV10, but any modern drone utterly destroys it for loitering, and are you on crack to seriously believe a helicopter is inferior at close and low? There’s this thing called “hovering”.
Well, in the 1960s/early 1970s when these were still around, “drones” in the sense we use today weren’t really a thing. They existed, but they were expensive, sometimes unreliable, and limited to taking imagery of basically a straight line. So useful for strategic stuff (IE counting ships at Haiphong or images of…
Well, one could start by pointing out that the entire reason for the OV-10 being in the arsenal at all(light close air support and reconaissance) has been completely taken over by either drones or helicopters. Drones are better at the “sit in the sky forever” thing and the Army can and does own quite a few of them,…
Like...what? lol. The A-10 was never even remotely thought of as a carrier-suitable aircraft and fighting massed Russian armored forces was never going to be a Marines job anyway.
Which was an incredibly dumb idea even then and still is today. An Air Force shouldn’t be tied to the hip to the Army any more than the Navy should be. They’re strategic arms of the military in the way that the Army isn’t.
Why spray 20mm cannon rounds everywhere when you can dump anywhere between eight and a dozen LGBs from altitude? /s
Paul Ryan and news media, too.
It’s probably (imaginary) protective clothing. “backpack bombs” aren’t really all that feasible; size/yield tradeoffs out the wazoo:
IIRC the Marines escort them with Harriers or F-35s. The Cobras travel with the other helicopters.
Let’s all pretend for a moment that the first commercial VR system came out 20 years ago and crashed and burned within six months of release, and the path to the Rift hasn’t been an extremely slow one since then, hmm?
Pretty well when you consider it. Even disregarding the Navy we’re pretty well stacked with Army & Marines on both seaboards (East Coast: 10th Mountain Division, 101st & 82nd Airborne, 3rd Infantry Division, 2 Ranger battalions, whichever Marine division is over here. West Coast is lighter, but it still has 4th ID &…
AC130 is extremely vulnerable in daylight because of its size and relative slowness and there also isn’t very many of them.
Mind is officially blown today. :p That is incredible.
Yeah, completely agreed. Women are held to a lower standard for a lot of things in the military, and when you get established as inferior in a hypercompetitive, hierarchal society, that’s just asking for trouble.
Well, only since the 1980s or so, with the UAVs the Iowas used to fly. If you’re counting just the Predator, it entered service in July 1995. So yes, “decades”.
Fucking blows that he’s gone.
The Iraqis were very tied to static positions; they were immobile for the entire air campaign. ISIS isn’t that suicidal. :p