Southwest doesn’t fly at 700 mph at 200 ft or Mach 1.25 at 50,000 ft with a variable geometry wing, a range of 7,400 miles (ferry). Concorde is the closest we came and...well...its a shame I never got to ride one.

A strip alert is to maintain some number of aircraft (call it 2) at a high level of readiness so it can go within the allotted time (30 mins or 5-10 mins from alert).

No hate, I really like the B-1B. It’s just they are maintainence hogs. 60 hours per flight hour vs 53 for the B-52. It also only has a 57.9% readiness rate vs 75.3% for the B-52. From what I’ve heard they are all broken in some unique and annoying way.

This is the difference between analysis by someone with knowledge of USAF TTPs and someone without...a good guess vs a wild assed one.

I just find the term “thone speech” funny because I’m juvenile.

So you guys are dropping out of NATO? No more peacekeeping missions ever?

2 engines is not a “must” for the RCAF any more than it is a “must” for the RNoAF (F-16) or the Swedish Air Force (JAS-39) who also operates in the North, has long borders mostly in the middle of nowhere.

Nonsense. Of the F-16 mishaps in the Royal Norwegian Air Force only 2 (maybe 3) could have been averted with 2 engines: 23MAR1982, 03MAY1992. The maybe is a goose strike that didn’t describe what caused the crash (02JUN1981).

LOL. Get educated? Try this:

Defend from whom? The Russians are no more likely to invade Canada than we are. Defend against Bears and Backfires? Eh. It’s not like it’s really a risky mission is it?

Sorta a Canadian Petraeus. Hope it turns out better in the end for him than Petraeus.

If we had to go to war with China tomorrow they’d load them up and send them to war.

Tyler is smarter than admirals and navy planners. So obviously you must be wrong.

Modify the F-15SE CWB (conformal weapons bay) like the F-16 CARTS. Looking at the F-15 CFT it is a little harder with a longer boom required but probably doable depending on if they can get to the refueling manifold somewhere along the CWB enclosure.

They can probably retrofit something similar to the F-16 CARTS:

$43M/43 PI/5 Years = $200K / year

While we didn’t build an island out of scratch we did pretty much the same thing back in the day to declare that a certain piece of ocean as ours:

Unlike in Dubai I don’t think they care about beaches or aesthetics. They look to have built sea walls and filled them in.

Well, a 10m rise would be pretty annoying to have to maintain.

Whether or not you can beat a particular air defense system all you really need to do is run them out of ammo...at less than a million a pop you’re talking $20-30M worth of tomahawks.