aliens raped it

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/politics/putin-comment-jews-russian-minorities/index.html

I'm feeling another assassination

He's not wrong

Ricen laced letters have been delivered to the Pentagon earlier today

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/02/france-blames-iran-for-foiled-bomb-attack-near-paris

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-russia-ministry/russia-u-s-comments-on-possible-destruction-of-russian-warheads-are-dangerous-tass-idUSKCN1MC29J?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter&utm_source=reddit.com

can everyone get together and just kick the shit out of Iran already? it culd be a good team building exersise, maybe bring Europe, Russia, china, and the US closer

Yes, because that’s how war works 👌

I had a recent convo with one of my friends regarding the possibility of civil war under the current political climate. He told me that I was writing off most of the left as those who wouldn’t try to do shit or at the very least would be extremely piss poor at it. Seeing this shit makes me hate the fact that I was most likely wrong in doing so.

I mean we spend a lot more time training for shit like this, want it more, have more violent tendencies, own guns, are willing to use the guns.

lefties by and large tend to only be good in groups where some rando brings a bottle or bike lock

So lefties create target rich environments?

Sounds like it.

trump just sent me a text

uh oh

Same.

I too received one.

I'm pretty sure everyone who could get one got one.

>lefties don't own guns
Speak for yourself ya faggot

>Trump sends text
>"Fortnite burger"

Shocking.

Tfw your siblings havw pledged to help you fight the libs

Tfw the far left makes everyone think they are "liberals"

It's the colors they wear.

make them pledge to fight the state of israel until they die

Calling eachother communists is punishable by a midnight blanket party.

what that

Socks and soap.

See Full Metal Jacket

>what they call themselves is what they are
>North Korea is a Democratic republic for the people

ah thats what that is

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/gop-swing-vote-sen-susan-collins-will-vote-for-brett-kavanaugh.html

Oof

@Sadmin

Bomb plot uncovered in NY.

Top kek

Apparently the most recent F-35B crash out in SC was caused by a faulty fuel tube and all F-35s will be going through inspection of said part over the next couple of days.

*And I can already feel the fucking Vatniks posting about it.*

Yep, pretty normal. They'll do a Time-change technical order (TCTO) to inspect and/or replace whatever the part is

Yeah as of right now the entirety of the F-35 fleet has been grounded

For like a day or two by the sound of it.

Hopefully this shit is isolated.

If it isn't, it's all we're ever going to hear for probably the better part of next year.

yeah, and if its the whole fleet hopefully its just the line itself and it can be fixed relatively easily, and not an issue with a large ramification within the design

If it was a design flaw with the whole thing, we probably would have ran into the problem already.

At least this was an incident where no one got killed in the first place.

Find it funny, though.

The F-35 has only ever had two or three class A incidents at this point and it's been around for at least 10-15 years. A lot of previous aircraft would have already had plenty of class A incidents at this point.

Though it's implementation has been rather slow, to be fair.

have they seen any combat flights yet even?

RT was already going on about it by 9:30

Yea, they have. In Syria at the very least and I think they've been in Afghanistan as well.

*I think.*

Of course it's been for troop support mainly.

Both direct and in-direct.

Who thought an aircraft capable of tracking around three times the amount of targets of the F-22 (which is around 200, so thus the F-35 can track 600) would be good for surveillance and recon?

Seems it was isolated anyways. http://twitter.com/CombatAir/status/1050472030573858816

middle eastern shitholes with patchy 1960's radar would be the only place on earth an F-35 would be stealthy

can fly around with the bomb bay wide open as much as it likes

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Wow, it’s almost as if America hasn’t been involved in an all out war with an equally well armed enemy since like, hmmm. 1945 or something

I would say Korea, but that'd be being kind to the Norks and Chinks.

While "well armed" I wouldn't say they where equals like how Japan and Germany where

Well, they weren't even really all that well armed except for the very start of the war.

And even then, the only really well equipped group in combat during that war were the Stovies flying Migs.

And some of the Chinks and Norks they trained.

Reminder that the Norks are the only people that have actually mounted MANPADS on their tanks to tell helos to go fuck themselves.

>Int check
>20

>having to use a MANPAD because you cant hit the helo with your main gun

Nork MANPADs are the equivalent of off hand shooting a pistol in the general direction of someone to tell them to fuck off

Actually it's a FIM-92 equivalent but okay.

It's on this ghetto little remote mount on the side of the turret, two Stinger-equivalent MANPADS duct taped together because F&F is OP.

Cheap shit zero-overhead upgrade that requires almost no additional effort or maintenance, no billion dollar boondoggle upgrade programs, and can be easily upgraded to modern standards by just slapping a new MANPAD on the mount

And it makes EVERY TANK a threat to CAS aircraft and helos.

Even outdated T-55s and T-64s

Virgin F-35 vs Chad Nork MANPAD

Unironically though

A F&F infrared all-aspect MANPAD with a high off-bore tracking capability...

F-35 is SOL

You have two options in that scenario: 1, outrun the missile, kinda hard to do when they go Mach 2.5+; 2, outmaneuver the missile, also hard to do when they can pull something like 15g or more.

>Nork AA
>Katyusha of MANPADs

>Implying Nork tanks have electronics

If the fixed wing pilots are smart, they won't even be close enough for the MANPADs to track them.

And if they do get a shot off, counter measures are also something to take into account.

consideing its probably just old chinese tech that has been "Updated" the best the Norks can manage

I mean Nork tech isn't actually that bad. Underestimating your opponent is the first step to losing.

And overestimating hem is a good way to waste resources

Of course, but ^

And if we're talking about the F-35, it can do probably almost any job our aircraft can do (minus gun runs compared to the A-10 ofc, but if MANPADs are a major problem like you stated, this shouldn't even be a consideration) right now like CAS for instance and probably do it a decent bit better due to the amount of info it integrates and pushes out.

Even to other platforms.

The things could basically act as it's own fucking mini-AWACS with the amount of targeting data and intel it can provide.

CAS is something you do after major AA threats have been mitigated via SEAD and you have air superiority for the most part

I don't think most CAS specific aircraft like the A10 or any helo can be expected to effectively engage other aircraft

Not really, unless they manage to catch them out.

And FFS, let it be fucking known here and now, you don't have to be low and slow to perform CAS.