Kamerad said:

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Saddam did have a WMD program, which he played cat and mouse with the UN inspectors over, then secretly shipped as much of it to Syria. The Israelis had help from Bush43 to locate that facility and took it out. They also took out a Syrian nuclear reactor site in 2007.

The Israelis also wanted us to do their dirty work/heavy-lifting in Iraq by removing Saddam, and had been begging the Clinton WH to do it throughout the 1990s.

Saddam wanted his neighbors to believe he had a WMD program so he could exercise more clout in the region and have deterrence and a bigger stick against Iran and the Saudis.

Again, another crap sandwich with damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Dirty D said:

Ericson Skycrane

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Yep. We used one to haul a bunch of cement and concrete aggregates up a hill. They put out a calendar, Title was something along the lines of "The only 5000 lb crane with a 14,000 foot boom". They did a good job. Static electricity is real.

Thank you,
MrSmith

akmike47 said:

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Ban him.

On a separate note, can you imagine being in that condition?

I found it in the SkyView app, but too much cloud cover here in Central Tejas

Charlie112 said:

Afternoon… I am looking for a new, CTR in 223 caliber… are they selling this rifle in the U.S.?? If so ,, where??
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Charlie112

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They are rarely in stock, and I have no idea why. I waited years to get one

Dealing with the Mullahs is like eating a crap sandwich. Your options are to not intervene with their aggressive attempts to develop a nuke, or to intervene.

One sandwich is just a big, fat turd with a clean cut-off.

The other is a cholera-infested Bangladeshi diarrhea blast between two flats of bread.

You can’t tell which is the Bangladeshi blaster until you bite in, and you have to finish the job once you start chewing.

We will now find out which sandwich we had to bite into.

I think it will be the fat turd, so we add more flavors to make it go down.

If it’s the Bangladeshi blast, we’re in for a wild ride.

I a still missing shots. Usually one or two, occurs every session or every other session. I use it 2-3x per week. Never happened before the updates. I’m over it, just a fact of life now.

akmike47 said:

From what I hear, both. Planes seem worse than boats.

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Depends on the bird/boat. The difference is you technically need a license to work on airplanes. You absolutely need a license and a higher qualification to sign off certain required inspections, yearly. Those mechanics are doing it for a living, the good ones are not cheap and take the time to do things correctly. Another huge factor is you can throw any part, brand, model in a boat. Everything going in a certified airplane has to be certified, huge mark up’s there. For example, the alternator for a very common 150 hp aircraft motor is the same out of a ford escort, $80 at Napa. For certified airplane version, closing in on $500.

The required annual inspections for airplanes I’ve personally witnessed have run anywhere from $500 to $27k, depending on what broken or worn out stuff was found.

232593 said:

Agricultural fields in that region , depending upon the hour, time of year, and items contained in them, are excellent for obscuration. I know this first hand. So if you know that your adversary is going to use them then it makes sense to target them with IDF. Especially if one wants to utilize rotary wing ACFT in the area.

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You use smoke canisters for obscuration though, not White Phosphorous submunitions.

Man, thank you both for adding to the discussion! We have this incredible potential at our disposal, i really appreciate the discussion to make the most of it!

One thing I noticed was that POF did a lot of their high-volume testing using Russian steel case .308 Winchester ammunition.

Russian steel-cased .308 was loaded to much lower working pressures, some sites claiming 42,700psi even.

So when POF was validating their pressure containment and durability of the small frame AR-15 chambered in .308, most of the ammunition was not anywhere near SAAMI MAP.

Ruger of course knocked-off the POF Rogue when they made the SFAR, using similar pressure containment approaches with AerMet super alloys for the bolt and barrel extension, while also adding vent holes in the extension and upper receiver in case of a case failure catastrophic malfunction.

So it doesn’t surprise me to see a part failure, especially for a rifle priced in the $1k region.

I would also look at the receiver face and see if it is square. Being out of square causes asymmetric loading on the bolt lugs, and the lugs adjacent to the extractor pocket are the weakest.

You can use the Wheeler receiver face lapping tool to check if your receiver face is square.

akmike47 said:

Thanks for posting this, again.

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Shouldn’t you and Bridger be fucking right now? I thought you swapped contact info and everything.

Every base in the conus is just as porous. I promise the Iranians currently staging on CCP farms near US bases are planning something similar as we speak.

Maser said:

Looks like the catboy lover pulled an Alex Jones and predicted what is happening now.

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TBH it makes a lot of sense but it's not really "chilling" either because there's always some shit happening there with HAMAS rockets or militias

akmike47 said:

I wonder what his next name will be

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Junius J Johnson III Jr.

PappyM3 said:

The F-22 is an air superiority fighter first and foremost.

It is extremely effective, but also not linked to other platforms like the F-35 is. It could have been updated to include a lot of the networking, sensors, and data fusion that the F-35 has, but really the F-22 is a fairly old design. The best performing fighter we have, but still on the old end to be revamping in such significant ways.

The budget only allowed one, and the F-35 was cheaper and was able to be sold to other countries. Which both helps with cost and with integration in a combined/multinational fight. The F-22 could not be. The F-35 was also made with work being performed in far more congressional districts than the F-22. I’m sure that was a big part of Congress’ decision.

Another plan was that a 6th Gen air superiority fighter was already in R&D when the F-22 was axed.

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It was designed and envisioned to be an air dominance fighter, so no matter what the Soviets did to upgrade the Su-27 and MiG-29, nothing would give them an edge to be able to counter the ATF. Air superiority fighters deliver a favorable exchange rate, assuming there will be losses on both sides. We relied on training, systems quality, and performance to continually try to keep an edge in the F-15C vs Su-27 and Su-30 one-up game. With F-22 vs any Flanker, there isn’t anything they can do to level the playing field, even with a high-hr Sukhoi pilot vs a low-hr Raptor pilot.

The F-22 pioneered the IFDL LPI data link, which is line-of-sight, high data-transfer rate, can’t really be intercepted or jammed with any EW systems. This is a giant leap over any of the Link-16(V)X systems and protocols, which are omnidirectional.

F-35’s MADL data link is another leap over F-22’s IFDL, mainly because it can transfer higher saturated data from fused RF and Electro-Optical/IR sensors and interleave that with other F-35s.



F-22 also pioneered sensor fusion and interleaved sensor data sharing among flights of F-22s, giving it better SA than any AWACS could provide. Even though F-22 uses a more advanced data link than legacy fighters, they can provide better information to joint tactical distribution systems, which then pipe that into the legacy Link- equipped fighters as necessary. F-35’s systems were natural evolutions and fulfillment of things from the ATF program, some of which were dropped from ATF due to cost concerns. Advanced IRST was one of those, which carried over somewhat into EOTS in the F-35.

The budget was planned for both ATF and JSF to supersede and replace F-15Cs and F-16Cs in USAF, which are on different tracks and not interchangeable. The claimed cost savings SECDEF Gates made blatantly contradicted the reality of having to fund SLEP for the F-15C and A-10 fleets, where billions were spent on structural repairs and layering of newer sensors and avionics on antiquated architecture from the late 1970s-mid 1980s. By holding onto F-15Cs and A-10s well past their service lives, we cheated ourselves from going into FRP with a relevant modern and future system with the F-22, and still spent the money on dead-end airframes that weren’t very useful in the Air Tasking Order.

If F-22A could have gone into FRP, we were looking at a $93m airframe flyaway cost due to volume order benefits downstream among the subcontractors and streamlined final assembly.

Both the F-22 and F-35 share the same basic Congressional district industrial base manufacturing share, but F-35 is traitor-proofed in that its industrial base was spread among many nations who all really need replacements for their F-16s, F/A-18s, and Harriers.

The traitors within still worked hard to cancel or hinder the F-35 program, and were successful in Canada in delaying its acquisition even though Canada has some of the largest industrial share in the JSF program, with over 100 companies making parts for the entire enterprise.

Either way, we’ve delivered over 1,185 F-35s to-date, and in the first week of July, the program update will include mention of having surpassed 1,200 airframes delivered to customers.

akmike47 said:

Side note, I don’t actually deliver pizza. That’s just my costume when I strip “you-uh order-uh a pizza pie, easy-uh on-uh duh pepperoni?”
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You need to includ eye bleach with that.

Valerie be mad.