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    Trump wants Bagram back.

    I'm bored, so I'll throw in some thoughts.. Pros: IF we are talking negotiated basing rights mainly for exporting negotiated rare earth extraction/export, and normalized relations (BIG IF, and I'll get to all that), then it COULD make some sense. Cons: Fat fucking chance of that with the...
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    Someone murdered Charlie Kirk

    Dude, I'm trying to be generically informative without getting overly wonky. It's a shooting site not an aviation site. And changing a sqwak to 1200 still provides mode C altitude reporting. Bottom line, there's a completely normal, non-conspiratorial explaination why the transponder MAY have...
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    Someone murdered Charlie Kirk

    As a professional pilot, I've been considering the reports of the private jet and it "disappearing from radar/turning off it's transponder". This would raise alarms in air traffic control and be highly unusual..., unless it was completely normal and mundane. Let me explain. Typically, a jet will...
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    Good deal on ZT KNIFE

    Thanks for the link! I've been thinking about getting one for a while.
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    Boeing down in India

    I've been flying professionally for 25 years and on one Boeing or another for 20 of those years. If what they are saying is true, one of the two guys in that cockpit caused that crash. There is absolutely no way those switches moved to cutoff without direct action. If the 787 is like all other...
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    Cigar thread 2.0

    I know you asked about brick and mortar shops, but if you should also check out cigarbid.com. Auction site that I've been using. I've gotten some really good deals there.
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    Range Maximum Energy limits

    Dude, your dreaming about MY magnum and your "range rules"!
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    Range Maximum Energy limits

    My guess, and only a guess, is for berm damage. My range doesn't allow 50bmg or it's derivatives for that reason. They probably use the energy as a way to restrict any new cartridge without having to try to keep up a list.
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    Photos 2025 Christmas Awesomeness MegaThread

    Well, my boy is 16 and dreams of being the next heavy metal bass star. He's pretty good. Has a band coming together --guitarist is good, drummer is decent and getting better, but they really need a lead vocals... Anyway, they want to start gigging this summer, so I got him got a PA system...
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    PortaJohn

    I like the way you think. Another possibility... The Russians called Potato's bluff, punched the bully in the nose, and he ran away crying. I know for a fact NATO air assets were targeted in that area before and it was only Providence that averted a shoot down over a year ago. I'm not sure how...
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    PortaJohn

    I respect Elon, but here he's wrong. Or to be more specific, he's falling in to a very old trap. He's correct in that hypersonic and drones will become more ubiquitous on the battlefield. But not all problems require technological solutions when a change of TTP can more efficiently solve the...
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    PortaJohn

    Another example that this worthless regime was run by theater kids. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good show from time to time, but I wouldn't want these vapid morons in charge of the local coffe shop, let alone the country, but here we are...
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    Boeing Claims It Will Be Ready for Pilotless Air-Taxi Flights by End of Decade.

    Yeah, I'll second this. One nice solar flare, and you've got a bunch of whiz-bangs running into houses, buildings, power lines, and hillsides. That's not to mention GPS map shifts, high wind gusts, birds, or party balloons (yeah, I've seen them all). I always tell people I don't get paid for...
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    Prayer Request Thread

    Guys, my 96 yo grandmother, Isabelle, is starting hospice tomorrow. She can't clear her lungs anymore and the doctors have maxed out all they can do. Asking for prayers for peace and comfort for her and for mom and aunt (Joyce and Debbie) as they care for her.
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    FL Former Atty Gen. Pam Bondi is Pres. Trump's new Nominee for US AG!

    I remember her. Was impressed, from what I remember. Seems like Gaetz may have been a decoy..great if he gets in, but we have another in the breach that will SEEM like a concession. At least I hope that was the chess move.
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