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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

Gorth

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Split off from old thread.

 

Dammit... I missed the Brisbane Riverfire this year! 😖

I had been looking forward to it and completely sweat it out. It was a few weeks ago

 

 

...and the less martial fireworks display once the Airforce is done (some years, the Airforce was part of the fireworks too using chaffs and flares to create "glitter" in the night sky)

Edit: From ages back when F-111's were still a thing

 

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

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Gorth

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When a Royal Air Force pilot snaps...

 

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

kanisatha

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https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/10/28/air-force-to-begin-withdrawing-f-15s-from-kadena-in-november/

My take is that the Air Force intends Kadena to be the inaugural base for the NGAD fighter, so they don't want to put something else there just for a few years before again reequipping the wing with another new type. So rotating in F-22s/F-35s is a good plan until NGAD comes online in ~2030.

Gorth

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4 hours ago, kanisatha said:

B-52s to be rotationally based at RAAF Tindal, Australia:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-31/china-tensions-taiwan-us-military-deploy-bombers-to-australia/101585380

Australia... the aircraft carrier that doesn't sink 😝

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

kanisatha

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12 hours ago, Gorth said:

Australia... the aircraft carrier that doesn't sink 😝

It's an awesome aircraft carrier when it can take six B-52s. 😉

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Gorth

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Australia's history as a tank manufacturing country... part hilarious, part interesting and part informative!

 

 

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

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kanisatha

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1 hour ago, Gfted1 said:

Top secret B-21 Raider stealth bomber finally revealed in high-powered ceremony - Breaking Defense

Haha. I was expecting this post from you. :)

Lots of articles but the pics are pretty much all the same, just only a front view. I want to see the planeform and profile views. Aviation Week's article seems to have the best rundown of technical details, such as they're available. Seems to be extremely optimized for transonic flight rather than high-subsonic like the B-2, which is very interesting.

Gfted1

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Smaller (and smaller payload), higher flying and longer range than the B-2 but I really want to get a look at the tail end. The B-2 already has "an RCS of 0.0001m2, the same as the F-22, the size of a bumble bee" so Im more interested in what theyve done to further minimize the B-21 IR signature. Love that its designed with unmanned capacity too.

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Gromnir

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The combat statistics for all the aircraft currently in use

am having no idea how accurate the data is from the link.

am only sharing the first entry so individuals may know how the data were shared.

[Name of aircraft] Air-to-air kills – Air-to-air losses – Losses to ground fire
[Name of conflict aircraft was used in]

[Nation that used aircraft in said conflict]

Air-to-air kills – Air-to-air losses – Losses to ground fire

F-16 Falcon 76-1-5
Gulf War (USA) 0-0-3
No-Fly Zones (USA) 2-0-0
Bosnia (USA) 4-0-1
Kosovo (USA) 1-0-1
Kosovo (Netherlands) 1-0-0
Kosovo (Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Turkey) 0-0-0
Afghanistan (USA, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway) 0-0-0
Iraq (USA) 0-0-0
Syrian border clashes 1979-1986 (Israel) 6-0-0
Operation Opera (Israel) 0-0-0
Lebanon War (1982) (Israel) 44-0-0
Lebanon War (2006) (Israel) 3-0-0
Intifada (2000-present) (Israel) 0-0-0
Soviet-Afghan War (Pakistan) 10-0-0
Border clashes (Pakistan) 1-0-0
Kargil War (Pakistan) 0-0-0
Northwest border wars (Pakistan) 0-0-0
Aegean Sea clashes (Turkey) 1-1-0
Venezuelan Coup 1992 (Venezuela) 3-0-0

HA! Good Fun!

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Sarex

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On 12/5/2022 at 8:54 PM, Gromnir said:

Kosovo (USA) 1-0-1

They wish.

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A flock of Mig-31s with their mother 737.  Big planes.

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Sarex

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52 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

Then how many F-16 were lost?

You can look up what NATO classified as "accidents" in that war. Too be honest I didn't catch that it was specifically a list for the F-16, but either way that number looks low to me. But anything that crash (landed) outside of our territory, they denied as a loss.

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

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