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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5875 on: February 03, 2023, 06:57:02 PM »
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5876 on: February 03, 2023, 07:09:23 PM »
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5877 on: February 03, 2023, 09:46:48 PM »
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5878 on: February 04, 2023, 12:11:56 PM »
Quote from: Spracne on February 03, 2023, 11:42:27 AM
@sonofdaxjones is there anything related to the political world you actually like, or at the very least, don't hate? I can't recall a single positive comment from you.

I tried to ask him a similar question a week or so ago. Very uncharacteristically, he kind of deflected and changed the subject without ever giving a response, which I thought was strange behavior for Dax
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5879 on: February 04, 2023, 12:22:37 PM »
Quote from: BIG APPLE CAT on February 04, 2023, 12:11:56 PM
Quote from: Spracne on February 03, 2023, 11:42:27 AM
@sonofdaxjones is there anything related to the political world you actually like, or at the very least, don't hate? I can't recall a single positive comment from you.

I tried to ask him a similar question a week or so ago. Very uncharacteristically, he kind of deflected and changed the subject without ever giving a response, which I thought was strange behavior for Dax

Indeed. Very unusual. Something is afoot.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5880 on: February 04, 2023, 01:50:28 PM »
Making fun of #blueanon/#neocons means you don’t like anybody . . . Spracs
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5881 on: February 04, 2023, 08:52:57 PM »
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5882 on: February 05, 2023, 05:48:47 PM »
Didn’t trust the f 35 to shoot down the Chinese balloon.

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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5883 on: February 05, 2023, 05:51:20 PM »
Time to release Covid 2.0 on their asses
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5884 on: February 05, 2023, 06:32:37 PM »
Quote from: Kat Kid on February 05, 2023, 05:48:47 PM
Didn’t trust the f 35 to shoot down the Chinese balloon.


The F-35 is a feat of engineering but the Swiss Army knife approach to the platform is a problem and the reason the AF is ordering new F-15’s. The older F-15’s are wearing out and the F-22 line can’t be restarted without spending a fortune.

The B-1’s are also wearing out because it was a plane designed to sit on nuclear alert. Not cart around 2,000 pound bombs all day and loiter for hours flying missions day after day. It’s an F1 race car that was asked to be a NASCAR short track car.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5885 on: February 05, 2023, 06:45:23 PM »
Quote from: Kat Kid on February 05, 2023, 05:48:47 PM
Didn’t trust the f 35 to shoot down the Chinese balloon.

you don't send an f35 to do an f22's job (and congrats to the f22 on registering its first air to air kill).
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5886 on: February 05, 2023, 08:21:15 PM »
Yeah, the balloon definitely needed Mach 2 to shoot down.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5887 on: February 05, 2023, 08:29:29 PM »
i assume the f22s were very excited when they heard there was a high-altitude balloon that needed popping.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5888 on: February 05, 2023, 09:02:00 PM »
The debris field covered tens upon tens of feet
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5889 on: February 06, 2023, 08:22:24 AM »
Quote from: sys on February 05, 2023, 08:29:29 PM
i assume the f22s were very excited when they heard there was a high-altitude balloon that needed popping.
Should’ve put an a-10 warthog on it.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5890 on: February 06, 2023, 11:17:06 AM »
Quote from: Kat Kid on February 06, 2023, 08:22:24 AM
Quote from: sys on February 05, 2023, 08:29:29 PM
i assume the f22s were very excited when they heard there was a high-altitude balloon that needed popping.
Should’ve put an a-10 warthog on it.
IIRC the A10 warthog was the feel-good story of the gulf war because they couldn't be shot down. I definitely wanted to be a Warthog pilot for a short period of my youth.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5891 on: February 06, 2023, 12:02:45 PM »
Quote from: michigancat on February 06, 2023, 11:17:06 AM
Quote from: Kat Kid on February 06, 2023, 08:22:24 AM
Quote from: sys on February 05, 2023, 08:29:29 PM
i assume the f22s were very excited when they heard there was a high-altitude balloon that needed popping.
Should’ve put an a-10 warthog on it.
IIRC the A10 warthog was the feel-good story of the gulf war because they couldn't be shot down. I definitely wanted to be a Warthog pilot for a short period of my youth.
Yeah it is one of the most successful pieces of military equipment in our arsenal and it is universally reviled by the pentagon which should tell you quite a bit about how defense budgets get made.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/12/07/congress-approves-a-10-retirements-more-f-35s-in-defense-bill/
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5892 on: February 06, 2023, 06:35:39 PM »
ukrainian war twitter hates the a10.  every other day someone suggests donating a10s to ukraine and then everyone brutally lols at that account.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5893 on: February 06, 2023, 06:38:13 PM »
It just proves again that some people are extremely stupid
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5894 on: February 06, 2023, 06:39:56 PM »
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on February 06, 2023, 06:38:13 PM
It just proves again that some people are extremely stupid
Couldn’t agree more.
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5895 on: February 06, 2023, 07:15:16 PM »
Quote from: sys on February 06, 2023, 06:35:39 PM
ukrainian war twitter hates the a10.  every other day someone suggests donating a10s to ukraine and then everyone brutally lols at that account.

the usual "worthless without air superiority" thing?
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5896 on: February 06, 2023, 07:49:08 PM »
:THIS HOG IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT AIR SUPERIORITY!:
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5897 on: February 06, 2023, 08:07:54 PM »
Quote from: sys on February 06, 2023, 06:35:39 PM
ukrainian war twitter hates the a10.  every other day someone suggests donating a10s to ukraine and then everyone brutally lols at that account.
You are almost there….
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Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5898 on: February 06, 2023, 08:28:15 PM »
The more I learn about the Abrams the more I think it will have almost zero effect on the war other than being a signal to Ukraine that we are behind them.

It runs on rough ridin' jet fuel, 3 gallons of jet fuel every mile so you need a fuel depot basically to travel with it. Also instead of repairing a diesel engine like all the tanks currently being used in Ukraine, it is a turbine. I just don’t see how that would be useful at all.

I don’t know enough to know for sure if A-10’s would be useful in Ukraine, but they sure as crap had stingers fired at them in Afghanistan long after the plane had been labeled obsolete. What is the big gripe being given?
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Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Reply #5899 on: February 06, 2023, 08:29:45 PM »
Quote from: Tobias on February 06, 2023, 07:15:16 PM
the usual "worthless without air superiority" thing?

the russians would knock them from the sky faster than we could deliver them.
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