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re: 2024 Football Schedule

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 4/21/24 at 1:06 pm

Did you know that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby ever born in LA?...

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re: Has anyone here ever met a celebrity?

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 4/12/24 at 6:17 pm

Met Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, and Ray Allen when I was at Al Udeid Air Base in 2016. They were on a USO tour just before Christmas. The below picture was captured by the 379 AEW Public Affairs. [img]https://i.imgur.com/Ib5xqkt.jpeg[/img]...

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re: You Can Tell Watching Hurd He’s Not Confident

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 4/5/24 at 9:07 pm

Why is he pretty much all curveballs? If we are gonna make a deep postseason run, we need him to get right. I think that means he needs to get that high fastball back like he and Floyd used well in the CWS last year. ...

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re: Skenes to donate $100/K to Sinise Foundation

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/28/24 at 8:29 pm

Who downvoted this and why?...

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Skenes to donate $100/K to Sinise Foundation

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/28/24 at 10:51 am

I know the article tries to make you sign up for FoxNews updates, but the headline says it all. I think this is very cool. [link=(https://www.foxnews.com/sports/pirates-paul-skenes-donate-100-gary-sinise-foundation-every-strikeout-this-season)]FoxNews Article[/link]...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/20/24 at 6:36 pm

[quote]what battlefield was the A10 designed for? Stopping the Russians from going west?[/quote] Exactly. The Russians had far more armor and infantry than we had in NATO so we needed a counter to that. The two main answers were the A-10 and the CBU-97 (later upgraded to the CBU-105) that conta...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/20/24 at 6:29 pm

[quote]was referring to the manufacturer of the A-10?[/quote] Oops! :dope: ...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/19/24 at 8:20 pm

[quote]is Fairchild still in business?[/quote] As in Fairchild AFB in WA? Yes, it is a tanker base. ...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/19/24 at 8:18 pm

[quote]This is one of the reasons I preferred helicopter CAS to A-10 CAS. [/quote] When I was in Afghanistan in 2010 we did a study on CIVCAS (civilian casualties) caused by fires from the air. Over two thirds of those were from Army helos. They also were responsible for more fratricide incidents...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/19/24 at 1:35 pm

[quote]This argument just doesn’t hold any water whatsoever.[/quote] Which argument? I don't know which comment I made you are referring to here. [quote]That’s more than every country in the world combined spends annually.[/quote] OK...now normalize that against what it costs to make things in...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/19/24 at 1:06 pm

[quote]My question is accepting that CAS is not possible until local ADS and airspace are controlled, why would you not want these available for use as soon as superiority is achieved?[/quote] Because if we keep paying for things that may be useful on say day 30 of a fight, we can't afford the th...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/19/24 at 9:22 am

[quote]So you are saying that you agree with the NDS that the A-10s should no longer be in the fleet? [/quote] Yes. They are useless in a high-end fight against a near-peer/peer competitor. [quote]If so, wouldn't the A-10s be useful elsewhere if not in the Far East strategy?[/quote] We ca...

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re: USAF plans to retire more A-10 Warthogs; “crippling” close air support capabilities

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/19/24 at 9:06 am

[quote]Too cheap and effective[/quote] The National Defense Strategy tells us our pacing threat is China. The services are supposed to request funds that build a force to execute said strategy. With that in mind, you figure out where you think A-10s would be based for a fight against China, the...

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re: Military Aircraft Gurus

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/11/24 at 11:25 am

F-15EX will replace older F-15Cs and Ds and some F-22s. Full F-22 replacement is what is currently called the “Next Generation Air Dominance” (NGAD) program. ...

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re: Military Aircraft Gurus

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 3/11/24 at 10:43 am

[quote]jcaz[/quote] This guy gets it. I will just add that the F-35 was never designed or imagined to be an air dominance aircraft; it is a strike platform. The F-22 is the air dominance fighter, but just like the B-2, we didn't get enough of them. So we are buying F-15EXs to augment F-22s in ...

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