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  1. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    Senate Intel Briefings are driven by CIA mostly, followed by NSA, then DIA. DIA used to be a lot better until it was also co-opted by the usual suspects. CIA was co-opted by the Soviets before it was even born in 1947, having come from the OSS, which was a mix of Yale fags from Skull & Bones...
  2. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    Since they effectively have no more air defense now, it doesn’t matter for conventional deep penetration strikes. The main thing to consider now is dirty bomb components being smuggled to the US border. Israel already moved Hamas and the Palestinians south of their infiltration tunnels and has...
  3. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    We were at Plant 42 for the roll-out of B-1B #1 (82-0001). I remember that day well. There was this crazy hot blonde chic who had eaten one too many of the free premium sausages they had at concession stands for visitors, and she hurled it all out right in front of me onto the tarmac. Did you...
  4. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    We were usually on avionics, INS, weapons, sensors type projects at ED. Fuel systems on the B-1 still boggle my mind. The MTOGW increased dramatically from B-1A to B-1B, namely fuel and weapons. I’m amazed at how it can pump such large volumes of fuel and keep the C of G centered when...
  5. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    I mainly remember Doug Benefield, who was the chief test pilot from Rockwell. He died in the crash/ejection capsule incident in 1984. I’ll ask my dad about the others. We were using the original 1970s-era B-1A airframes on the B-1B CTF after Reagan revived the program. The biggest change was...
  6. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    MRAPs were a money-pit that wasted $45 billion with no positive cost-benefit to the force, while losing the capitalization on being able to go into FRP with F-22s. It played exactly into the hands of China. The MRAP Boondoggle US Army divested itself of most of them, to include leaving them...
  7. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    We were on B-1B Combined Test Force from 1983-1985 before going to Hill AFB and UTTR. I did not know the B-1 was employed with an internal tank in the forward bay, but I do remember the neutering of the rotary ALCM launchers as part of SALT BS. We were long-gone from the program when all that...
  8. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    The Iranians are more likely to sort their own regime out now that they’ve been repeatedly humiliated with defeat. Zero reason to put US soldiers on the ground in Iran. Arabs should have no presence in Persia anyway. Time to send them packing or hang them in the streets of Tehran.
  9. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    A single B-2A can carry 80 500lb JDAMs, each of which can perform in the Quick-Sink mode. That’s where it penetrates the water surface near the hull at an optimized stand-off distance, then detonates oblique to the hull using the ocean water as a water impulse charge. This immediately severs...
  10. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    Comes internally from people who worked with him well before he sabotaged ATF. There were several programs DARPA and USAF were working on together that showed a ton of promise, USAF was very excited, end-users excited, contractors excited, not crazy expensive, killed by Gates. When asked why...
  11. LRRPF52

    6.5 Grendel

    CFE223 has been the easy button for me for availability and really good velocities. I haven’t noticed anything particular with dirtiness. You can’t seem to get enough of it under a 123gr to reach SAAMI MAP, so it’s very forgiving and runs the gas system well, like most factory ammo in that...
  12. LRRPF52

    The bolt of the AR-10\308 rifle is broken.

    I never suggested Ruger did anything remotely like that. For a larger brand like Ruger, they should have done pyramid testing with “their own design”. Of course they didn’t knock-off the Rogue spec for spec. But POF pioneered the AR-15 frame size chambered in .308 Winchester, where the bulk...
  13. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    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...
  14. LRRPF52

    Iran go boom

    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...
  15. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    You use smoke canisters for obscuration though, not White Phosphorous submunitions.
  16. LRRPF52

    The bolt of the AR-10\308 rifle is broken.

    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...
  17. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    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...
  18. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    I’m not clear on what you’re trying to convey. Israeli SOF elements working inside Iran might have provided some terminal guidance for PGMs and things related to HUMINT and its importance for their operation. That is really far from anything to do with Infantry wielding 14lb battle rifles...
  19. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    Because SECDEF Gates was working for the Russians and Chinese. F-22 was meant to replace one-for-one the F-15C fleet, which was an initial order for 750 aircraft. The Russians and Chinese really hated the F-22 once they got word from their internal moles on how it actually worked once we did...
  20. LRRPF52

    The bolt of the AR-10\308 rifle is broken.

    That isn’t an AR-10 bolt for starters. It’s an AR-15 bolt with a .473” cartridge bolt face, with dual ejectors. This means it can only be a Ruger SFAR bolt. POF Rogue has a single ejector, so it isn’t that. AR-15.......................SFAR...................ArmaLite AR-10
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