David Alman

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Pentagon shoots down government drone in Texas accident, congressional aides say The U.S. military shot down a U.S. government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to bar flights on Thursday in an area around For...

“If he fires one, I’ll fire one!”

“Weapon away!”

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Any Hogan’s Heroes reference gets the like

Yeah the better question is “what is the minimum amount of money it would take for you to do this?” And my answer is somewhere between “unique t-shirt” and $200 probably.

Oh, word?

F-16s Heading To Middle East Equipped With Angry Kitten Electronic Warfare Pods The Angry Kitten pods will give the fourth-generation fighters often tasked with the Wild Weasel missions much-needed extra protection.

Not really true though. For one open source example see:

www.twz.com/air/f-16s-he...

It’s all a tradeoff. Weight, capability, etc.

F-35 has DAS, but MAWS would need to be looking all around to protect from air and surface threats. Probably worth it, but what do you trade away?

You got it!!!! Tacos and beer are tasty

This is incredibly easy if you don’t have some health issues / take remotely good care of yourself.

Hardest part is volume of beer. Also are these street tacos or some insane American taco with sour cream or other insult to the gods?

Wake up, run 10 miles, start day drinking and snacking, done.

It’s just called a F-35 lol

The article is just not well informed. Nor is the average person about SEAD / IADS.

This is not really true; the article just doesn’t really understand what’s going on.

Just “us officials” being a very loaded noun. The USAF is not that dumb, at least I know many people who are not that dumb.

This is ill-informed reporting, either due to reporters not understanding the subject or due to the sources obfuscating the truth.

“US officials” is doing a lot of work in this sentence paragraph.

It is entirely way dumber and less sophisticated.

The big question I’ve had, that I have not yet found a satisfactory answer to, is why USAF fighter culture is so dominated by Vietnam / Robin Olds. Because some of the degenerate behavior is downstream of him / ‘Nam specifically.

It’s tough not being relevant for two decades! lol

But yeah all the community stereotypes are the 10-20%. Most people are “whatever” and go along with saying “cranium” / pointing with elbows because they don’t feel like getting ridiculed imo

Plus you’re already self selecting for people who want to both be in the military and strap themselves in a jet. The net combination can, I think, yield a sort of, “live big in the moment” attitude that’s not conducive to great behavior. But again, it’s a minority of people.

But I think it’s really just downstream of other issues. Predominantly young and male, so you get the worst of that. Competitive “sport” type deal, so locker room type spaces abound. Long hours, away from family a lot. Culture acts like drinking etc are part of the job. And it’s dangerous.

It’s a generalization, but I’d say in reality it’s like 20% of people who fit that description. Those are typically the ones who make the job their entire personality, though, so they seem like they’re the whole community.

I was shocked when I learned that a lot of books were really just 30 page papers stretched to 200 pages and made that much worse in the process

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Pump up those airline hours, keep waiving checkrides

1) Israel is not our friend
2) putting jets there makes them a target in any strike against Israel, thereby complicating our own decision making

Fortunately I have zero to do with this individual, but if I did I’d also probably vehemently deny it lol

There is no shortage of intelligence targets in the world of three-times-divorced with a gambling/alcohol/adultery problem former fighter pilots though….

Security nightmare in every sense of the word.

Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Arrested for Providing Defense Services to the Chinese Military Former U.S. Air Force officer and pilot Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., also known by the call sign “Runner,” 65, a U.S. citizen, was arrested today in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Brown was charged by criminal ...

Unforgivable.

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Just watched the MoH presentation to CWO Slover at the State of the Union Address.

What a horrible venue to do that presentation, and it is unbelievably cringe to have the crowd chant "USA" as he is standing there with a walker.

Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson

This is one of the best novels I've ever read about a fighter squadron. I'm only halfway through it this go around, having read it many years ago, but it's spot on.

Piece of cake to read, too!

I don't recall exactly the circumstances of this competition, but remember that late 30s air force thinking (worldwide) assumed that without radar you'd have limited warning about incoming air raids (part of the reason people thought bombers would be v survivable), so they prioritized time to climb

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This is the most blasphemous thing I’ve seen all day, outside of the twitter misogyny, almost war in the middle east, gunfight off cuba, minnesota medicare deal, etc