3:37 4 guys with RPGs.

Stuff like this is generally not marked FOUO. Especially ones with allied partners.

This. And the fact the alleged report is marked FOUO is fishy.

If the Navy just buys more F-18s instead of F-35s then “squids” better learn to enjoy either dying to double digit SAMs or letting the Air Force do all the work.

I dunno why y’all have your panties in a bunch when an unsubstantiated blog posts claims they have a 5 page FOUO report they won’t release that says the F-35 is doomed.

It is not about Iraq buying these, we need to purchase these for them, it is the only way we would ever be able to actually leave that country.

LOL...are you as fully aware of the Iraqi OOB as you are fully aware of the differences between Block 50/52 and Block 50/52+ F-16s?

Yes, he said the Pentagon didn’t think of providing access to cheap COIN aircraft.

We’re never going to get the A-29. But we might be able to refit the MC-12Ws in the same way the Caravan was refitted from an ISR bird to a light attack bird if theres a real need.

“The Pentagon’s absolute lack of foresight in providing the Iraqi military with even a rudimentary precision attack and surveillance aircraft before U.S. forces vacated the country in 2011, is undeniable.

Given that ISIS has overrun Iraqi military bases on a regular basis these easier to operate aircraft like the Super Tacano and AT-6C Coyote would be operating under ISIS just like Humvees. F-16s on the other hand, like M1s are a bit tougher for folks like ISIS to maintain and operate.

If the clock was accurate regarding environmental impact it would already be half past 1.

If you believe in OMFTS and STOM the America class make sense and not heavily flawed. After all there are two other ships with well decks in a ARG: the LPD and LSD. It’s not a SCS.

Doh...hit publish.

It may be a bit of revisionist history but the Navy has been claiming a long time that after Tripoli the well deck was always planned in the follow-on ships.

Neither did the Buran. There’s a long path from first successful launch to man rated.

Yes, because Russian launch vehicles never fail.

Great work? When he seems to think block 50/52 is the same thing as block 50/52+. An “military aviation journalist” should probably fact check whether the Block 50s can use the CFT as he suggests (hint: no) or if any of the newest USAF F-16s are block 50/52+ (Hint: no).

I read that some users of the CFTs have dedicated CFT crews because they were always taking them off for maint and those guys would spend their entire day putting them on and taking them off.

It’s because we haven’t bought any for almost a decade and a half. We got our most recent F-16 a decade ago.