Zach 🇺🇦

Decided to try some of the highly caffeinated energy drinks the kids enjoy these days and this shit is ass. How do people enjoy this shit over coffee?

>kick UN missions out
>invite Russian PMCs
>they just keep killing civilians
>IS groups keep advancing and taking town after town

The rate of major attacks by IS-aligned groups seem to be going through the roof in the Sahel region. At this rate, the entire Sahel might fall to IS-Sahel groups, but hey at least Ibrahim Toure looks cool or something and they kicked the imperialist Germans and UN missions out.

I have been going through all Atlas slides and finding truly wild gems. Like look at this absolute unit.

I cast the Ammonia Nuclear Atlas

Sir, your activity has been deemed to meet the threshold of "scaring the hoes".

Alright what is it this time.

These are just the sections where I must animate these things to show what I am talking about.

All of these (and like 50 more) will be combined in a long video (about 30ish mins long).

My intentions with these has been to try and simplify these concepts with my illustrations.

Emit and die

Where are my passive defense enjoyers at 🙏

A zillion more of these are waiting to be made.

I haven't used AE in like 1.5 years so a part of me is surprised I even remember how to do anything on the app.

Finally working on animating the storyboard. On this slide we got Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

The USAF programs have many different systems being worked. The price tags and capabilities range from $1-2.5M to $25-30M. The USMC themselves have XQ-58A and MQ-9s which are very different in terms of capabilities. This shows the programs that form the USAF CCA.

The USAF is still buying enough F-47s to replace F-22s 1:1 and the same number of F-35s it set out to buy at the start of the program.

The USAF nor the USN have never said these drones replaces manned platforms so he is arguing a position that doesn't exist within the DoD. MQ-25 frees up more F/A-18s to do non-tanker stuff. CCA complements existing fighters that would die in these new environments.

Lastly the author has no technical criticisms of these platforms or plans. Mostly handwavy "it won't work, it doesn't work"

This concept has existed since the 1970s. Recon drone helped survey AA and SAM positions for recon units during the Vietnam war. Drones played a role in SEAD/DEAD for Wild Weasel units in Iraq 1991. Drones played a part in almost every war the US was involved in since the Vietnam War.

The goal of CCA isnt to develop an F-35 without a human, it is intended to develop a multitude of different aircraft at different price ranges with varying capabilities that do a broad range of missions in support of manned platforms.

And yet the KC-46 program is billions overbudget and constantly full of issues with its remote view system while the MQ-25 has autonomously refueled almost every single USN aircraft without any issues, not to mention it also takes off from aircraft carriers.

The comparisons between the KC-46 and MQ-25 are apples to watermelons. The MQ-25 costs what it does today because less than 10 of them are being built while the KC-46 is based on a commercial airframe that has close to 1,500 airframes built.

A CCA needn't carry 22k lbs if it is main role is SEAD or DEAD or AAM. You don't put an APG-81 on every CCA. You don't power every CCA with an F-119/F-135.

The big problem here is that the author can't envision CCA as being anything other than an fighter without a human.

The author also handwaves away the fact that it is congress that holds the power of the purse and that even if Congress funded the DoD to a 5% spending (of GDP) the USAF/USN would still ask for these platforms.

As such the pursuit of drones isn't one of asymmetric response but rather the realization of the threats posed by modern IAMD. This is the same reason the Chinese also want their own CCAs, because they have to face our own IAMD.

This piece is actually bad, the writer doesn't understand the CONOPs of current CCAs and the origins of drones. The role of the drones the USN/USAF are pursuing isnt to replace the human but complement the human in otherwise dangerous environments.

Been cooking this stuff up. More stuff over on the patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/135167...

Ever wondered where baby MaRVs came from? well now you know.