Sgt. Alan Brutus, US Army according to the EXIF.

SHIELD uses quinjets and F-35Bs. So they have the same hard on for VTOL as Marines...so Ospreys would likely be their first choice over helos...

And given how well the CH-148 program has gone it seems we made the right choice.

Lol. No.

You mean no other reason except than we haven’t seen this supposed unclass document with the smoking gun that the F-35 sucks...which if existed would be plastered everywhere in it’s totality. Everybody (including popular mechanics) points to same War is Boring blog post. None of it is a second source with a copy of…

The A-10 is 300 knots cruise, 381 knots max and 120 knots stall. It’s not exactly speedy.

“Who cares how old it is, the A-10 is a damn piece of perfection for the job it needs to do.”

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.