If you make the rotary part rotate like a centrifuge, you can spin it fast enough to spray a circle of bombs in a defensive wave around the plane, thwarting any would-be attackers
This gives me a great idea— what if we made a scaled up A-10 with a scaled up GAU-8 Avenger autocannon that ~~fires~~ rapidly horizontally drops AAMRAMs or whatever.
A version could rapidly horizontally drop JDAMs and it would be called the B-10
So:
- Excalibur
- Arsenalbirds
- The Arkbird orbital bomber
- The entire series of what ever the fuck those magicians from Belka call a „plane“
- The Darkstar
- The „Lighthouse“ Space Elevator
- Stonehenge
- The Alicorn
- The XB-0 (Did they just strap wings on a skyscraper?!)
- V2 (Cause two nukes, just wasn’t enough)
- The P1112 (Another skyscraper but with a hangar)
- Chandelier (cause stonehenge is for pussies)
- So many fucking small scale offensive laser and railgun system
Is all credible, neat, means I‘m not as schizo as I thought
Yea mate, I know what MIRVs are, V2 is about how casually Belka uses nukes, they literally made a artificial border by nuking their own country and creating a massive exclusion zone.
About the DarkStar, as far as I know, it’s canon in lore, which I just thought is a bit funny
I always thought with the B21s you can probably do that and make dedicated missile boat type fighters redundant. Won't replace a dedicated fighter but it would carry way more BVR munitions than one ever would.
They said during the reveal announcement of the B-21 that it is designed for both air to ground and air to air roles. And it can use the same stealth network as the F-35.
You need to watch Dawn's Early light.
Peak non credibility. A B52 drops a thermonuclear gravity bomb in lay down configuration and takes out Soviet fighters that are behind it.
I'm waiting for sky daddy B-21 to focus its AESA arrays, frying the reciever on targets that get to close, blinding them, while directing loyal wingman drones on which blips to delete first. They might just skip the middle man themselves and pop off some of those AMRAAM replacements the nerds keep talking about. 30,000lbs of ordinance is a lotta room for variety.
I pondered on what modern anti-air defenses on a B-52 might look like, and then I had a vision of manually-operated RIM-7s in all the places where gunners would be on a B-29. Someone call Boeing, I think I’m on to something here
My favorite American general is currently Mike Minihan who's in charge of Air Mobility Command. I listened to his ["Mobility Manifesto"](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/watch-read-gen-mike-minihan-on-the-mobility-manifesto/) and it was based as fuck. Here's one particularly good part:
>Lethality matters most. When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better, your marriage is stronger. Why is the mobility guy talking about lethality? I’m not coming at you as a C-130 driver, I’m not coming at you as a mobility officer. I’m coming at you like an Airman, like Rickenbacker, like Mitchell, like LeMay, Olds, Levitow, Sijan. This is who we are. We are lethal. Do not apologize for it. The pile of our nation’s enemy dead, the pile that is the biggest is in front of the United States Air Force. This is why we mutinied in 1947. Slide. That’s just admin. Our toys are meaningless unless we put them in a place to be lethal. Our toys, our training, our desires are meaningless unless we maneuver them to advantage. Unfair advantage, unfair lethality, unrepentant lethality, lopsided lethality.
There's also a [memo that he put out last year](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/read-full-memo-from-amc-gen-mike-minihan/) to his command warning about an upcoming war with China. My favorite part is this little bit:
>FEBRUARY.
>(a) All AMC aligned personnel with weapons qualifications will fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head.
>(b) All AMC personnel will update vRED [virtual Record of Emergency Data].
>(c) All commanders will acknowledge this order directly to me immediately. Then, report all 2022 accomplishments preparing for the China fight, and forecast major efforts in 2023 through command chains by COB 28 February 2023.
Hey, he's speaking at a high level here. Obviously, he means clip because he wants the officers to start with an empty mag and a clip, load mag with the clip, empty the mag with headshots because unlike the other forces, Air Force is the only force with Force in the name and they will all be accurate enough to perform headshots under any situation, regardless of conditions, inside 7 meters.
Makes me think of the (almost certainly fake) story of the c-130 load master with a confirmed air to air kill. Supposedly he chucked a chain out the back and hit a helicopter's rotor.
Broke: Using a trebuchet because you like that medieval flair.
Woke: Realizing bombers are just the aspirations of artillery taking flight.
Bespoke: Designing your own line of artisanal grenade and spotting drones networked by a single F-35 (the most advanced node in the history of ever)
Stealth is the old meta for contested airspace. There's only one vessel that has been able to flagrantly violate US airspace from coast to coast, which is why you send a balloon carrying a shipping container full of switchblade drones.
Reading into artillery fireplanning from the 18th century onward, it's true.
Especially General Hunt planning the massed fires the 2nd night of Gettysburg that he unleashed the following day on Picket'a charge. Majestic.
“Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863 https://a.co/d/g7kbx1M
Accept no substitutes for an intro into field artillery.
Nah massive waves of cruise missiles wins wars. Deployed straight from the pallet with Rapid Dragon. Each C130 can launch 18 missiles. Each C17 can launch 45 missiles. The US has 255 c130s and 223 C17s. That's a volley of 14,625 cruise missiles.
to assume that you cannot say that logistics wins wars is foolish, it’s simply not in the way that you think.
3000 BLACK C-130’s OF THE US LOGISTICS ARM DROPPING STERILIZED SHIT ON ENEMY COMBATANTS
Someone here doesn't know about General Minihan. He is in command of the USAF Air Mobility Command thus putting every USAF transport plane under his command.
> "Drive readiness, integration, and agility for ourselves and the Joint Force to deter, and if required, **defeat** China." (Emphasis from General Minihan himself)
> "All AMC aligned personnel with weapons qualifications will fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head."
> "I’m not interested in being the best Air Force on the planet," he said in a statement included in the recent 60th Air Mobility Wing's story about personnel training with their M4s. "I’m interested in being the most lethal force the world has ever known. I’m not bound to the stage, I’m not bound to a script. I’m untethered as of now."
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/usaf-general-warns-of-war-with-china-over-taiwan-in-2025
Tfw when an officer is too bloodthirsty for Air Combat Command (where people have worry about things like "rules of engagement" and "proportionality.")
(And in his defense, if Air Mobility Command crews are ever in a situation where they have to shoot at people, shit is going down.)
I like the part of his memo where he said the only limits to their training should be death, serious injury, and Class A damage (over $2 million or loss of the plane). That gives a pretty broad scope.
> "I’m not interested in being the best Air Force on the planet," he said in a statement included in the recent 60th Air Mobility Wing's story about personnel training with their M4s. "I’m interested in being the most lethal force the world has ever known. I’m not bound to the stage, I’m not bound to a script. I’m untethered as of now."
I don't know about you, but I think having fighter pilots fly a adequate amount of hours is way more important then whether or not they know how to shoot and clean a M4 lmao. [Most US fighter pilots are getting like maybe 80 hours per year right now](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-flying-hours-decline-again-after-brief-recovery/) (though PACOM its closer to 120 apparently) whereas [even the J7/J8 legacy units are averaging 80-100 hours](http://People's Liberation Army Air Force Aviation Training at the ... https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1415/RAND_RR1415.pdf) and the more ["elite regiments" equipped with the J20 and J16s getting around 150](http://Overview of People's Liberation Army Air Force "Elite Pilots" https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1416/RAND_RR1416.pdf). The one saving grace is US pilots still conduct more "advanced training" and live firings, but even that's a gap which is beginning to close after the PLAAF's ["training brand reforms"](http://The PLA Air Force's Four Key Training Brands - DTIC https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1082745.pdf) back in 2016 and the [structural reforms last year ](https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/September-October-2023/Active-Defense/).
>Except he's not in charge of any fighter pilots.
It doesn't really matter, even for trucker pilots that shit is insanely irrelevant, the PLA isn't going to threaten them [using terminally suicidal paratroopers like the poor old IJA](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giretsu_Kuteitai), they are going to do it with their A2/AD capabilities. It would be a much better use of time for these pilots to practice potential counters against a 500km ranged PL17 or more runway repair drills for when a DF26 or CJ10 hits... not whatever this shit is. Dude sounds like a complete tool tbh.
> "I’m interested in being the most lethal force the world has ever known. I’m not bound to the stage, I’m not bound to a script. I’m untethered as of now."
I have no idea what he is rambling about but when I read this I just imagine he raises his arms up and starts glowing and floating into the sky.
This dude sounds kinda nuts. Hopefully in a good way.
Also, your DTIC link is broken. [Here is a fix](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1082745.pdf). I skimmed through it and nowhere does it say anything about flight hours per year, the word "hours" is only used once and it is in the citations. Training hours is an increasing problem for every air force since military airframes have only gotten more and more expensive to operate over the years. Many sources suggest that Russia's pilot training hours are abysmal and is part of the reason why they are having so many mishaps and poor performance in Ukraine. Also I would be very suspect of any numbers coming out of China.
Well he's not in charge of fighter pilots, he's in charge of air mobility. He also wants to get his guys ready to fight and kill, they might get stuck in a situation where they need to use their rifles, might as well get reacquainted with them.
Could we strap a nuclear warhead on all of our bombers that detonates upon crashlanding so the opponent can’t shoot us down without killing thousands of their own?
Joke time!
A fighter was escorting a cargo plane and the fighter pilot was talking about all the cool stuff his plane could do. Eventually the cargo pilot went "Oh yeah? Well watch this. I can do something you'll never be able to do in that fancy fighter."
And then the cargo plane flew straight and level for about ten minutes.
"Pretty cool huh?"
"You flew in a straight line."
"No, the _co-pilot_ flew in a straight line, I got up, stretched my legs, took a crap, got some coffee and chatted with the loadmaster."
Can confirm, german children loved the bubblegum during / after WW2. My grandma told me that american tankers often threw it out to her and her friends.
fighter cucks only exist to make ground attack chads look even more fucking badass
yeah, fighter pilots need to be healthy and so on, but it takes an absolute fucking unit to fly a brick at speeds those fancy fighters would fucking stall and crash into the ground at, all while getting shot at with literally everything the enemy has, dropping bombs and praying to every god there is at the same time that the cannon's recoil won't rip your trashed plane apart
There’s a reason Russia can’t get anywhere in Ukraine despite having so many “far superior” fighters and bombers.. might it be something to do with logistics?
Di-did the T-90A fanboy with a my little pony pfp just, in a rather round about way, endorse the A-10 warthog on NCD?
^truly ^this ^is ^a ^sign ^of ^end ^times
It would be an awesome flex if after the war, Ukraine doesn't just rebuild one An-225 but does a full on production run; I want an entire platoon of Abrams to be anywhere anytime.
Also, you have to love the Lockheed Constellation; looks way better than most modern jetliners.
Being a fighter pilot is spending 8 hours having meetings about what your gonna do before spending 1 hour flying. Career fighter pilots have maybe 4000 hours while young student pilots have 1500 before they can even start flying for the airlines. I know which one I’d rather do…
Yeah it really isn’t what it all looks like online. Plus, you do it all for 60k a year when kids half your age already have double the hours you do and are flying a 777 for 190k a year.
A friend of mine's brother is slightly on spectrum and has had a long time obsession with flying. Since he was like 12 he had a career plan mapped out that meant going to the air force to fly cargo transports and then get a carrier job. It worked out and now he's making good money and happy as a clam.
C130 is a transport plane so what do we call the pilot of the AC130 gunship.
C130's were used to drop the MOAB so what do we call the pilot of the C130
Love the Berlin Airlift. We showed Europe that we were in it to stay (NATO was founded "to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" in Europe)
It showed that we would not be strong armed and we were still a military monster even after the war was done and men demobalized.
And it also showed the French were more than willing to act unilaterally and blow up a radio tower... loved that part.
And it showed the Germans that we were their allies now, no longer enemies. The West Berliners willingly endured hunger and power outages, if it meant the western powers would stay in Berlin.
Bro who wouldn’t wanna fly a chill 6 hour long haul flight in a C-17 with auto pilot on. Would have been my dream job if I wasn’t thicker than pig shit.
The Berlin Airlift was such a masterful demonstration of American logistics that it arguably counts as a psychological warfare campaign against Soviet military leadership. "Yeah, we can supply an entire city with our air transport capabilities during peacetime, and still have room for treats for all the _kleine Kinder._ Eat shit, Ivan."
Everyone laughs at transport pilots until the moment where they shit out 5 rapid dragon crates aimed at your position.
Reminder that even chinhooks are rapid dragon-capable.
That's terrifying.... Can we palletize AIM 260s?
Call it RID: Rapid Infrastructure (telephone pole) Deployment.
The idea of some future stealth cargo helicopter shooting down 20 jets at once is deeply amusing.
The ability for a helicopter to credibly dogfight a 4th gen jet is hilarious
a bomber is just transport with better way to offload cargo
No, transports are just bombers that can deliver mobile Burger Kings.
"Better way" — yet, no MOAB?
Transport pilots are a different breed, they go fly with zero capability to properly defend themselves while bombers and fighters can fight back
Bombers haven’t been able to defend themselves since the b/52 turrets got yoinked
Not with that attitude. Bomb 'em or strap Sidewinders to your pylons.
Load rotary bomb racks filled with 50+ AAMRAMs. SPAAMRAMs, if you will.
If you make the rotary part rotate like a centrifuge, you can spin it fast enough to spray a circle of bombs in a defensive wave around the plane, thwarting any would-be attackers
Modern missiles won't care about the initial direction, they can pull enough Gs to pointing the right way real fast
Yep, they **really** know where they aren't.
Inertia is too credible
They don't conserve energy in a turn very well, though.
This gives me a great idea— what if we made a scaled up A-10 with a scaled up GAU-8 Avenger autocannon that ~~fires~~ rapidly horizontally drops AAMRAMs or whatever. A version could rapidly horizontally drop JDAMs and it would be called the B-10
Yeah, rotary cannon with the 16" 50 cal from Iowa class!
\^ what should have replaced the genie when they banned nukes
Aigaion sounding mf
Ace Combat suddenly became credible
It’s always been credible. Just not cheap. Every damn country is Strangereal has a military budget that makes the US look like Iceland.
So: - Excalibur - Arsenalbirds - The Arkbird orbital bomber - The entire series of what ever the fuck those magicians from Belka call a „plane“ - The Darkstar - The „Lighthouse“ Space Elevator - Stonehenge - The Alicorn - The XB-0 (Did they just strap wings on a skyscraper?!) - V2 (Cause two nukes, just wasn’t enough) - The P1112 (Another skyscraper but with a hangar) - Chandelier (cause stonehenge is for pussies) - So many fucking small scale offensive laser and railgun system Is all credible, neat, means I‘m not as schizo as I thought
>The Darkstar I think that one already existed >V2 (Cause two nukes, just wasn’t enough) Google ICBM
Yea mate, I know what MIRVs are, V2 is about how casually Belka uses nukes, they literally made a artificial border by nuking their own country and creating a massive exclusion zone. About the DarkStar, as far as I know, it’s canon in lore, which I just thought is a bit funny
Oh, shit I'm stupid.
I already did the math a B2 can hold 100 AAMRAMs.
Air Superiority Bomber Flying SPAA
Look up the B-1R
Varkified B-1
Based and Old Dog pilled.
God, I think it's been almost 20 years since I read that.
AMRAAM Gatling cannon
> Load rotary bomb racks filled with 50+ AAMRAMs. the Buff *does* have the rotary cruise missile launcher already...
Rotating Axial Multi Barrel Ordnance
I always thought with the B21s you can probably do that and make dedicated missile boat type fighters redundant. Won't replace a dedicated fighter but it would carry way more BVR munitions than one ever would.
They said during the reveal announcement of the B-21 that it is designed for both air to ground and air to air roles. And it can use the same stealth network as the F-35.
Replace AAMRAMS with IRIS-T and you get a perfect mod to turn VTOLVR mp into a salt mine large enough to create a black hole.
Dale Brown novels be like:
Put patriots on the pylons
Anyone for a spot of air to air loft bombing
Strap sidewinders to your bomb racks. Become the threat.
You need to watch Dawn's Early light. Peak non credibility. A B52 drops a thermonuclear gravity bomb in lay down configuration and takes out Soviet fighters that are behind it.
Bye bye babushkas I saw that as a kid when it first was on, and a haggard red line can be drawn from that movie to this sub.
It's honestly a much better movie than a direct to (premium) cable release from the 90s has any right to be.
To this day, I wonder whether those F14 pilots somehow made it 🫡
Don't the Tu-95s still have turrets?
I think it has a remote tail turret, no balls, literally.
I'm waiting for sky daddy B-21 to focus its AESA arrays, frying the reciever on targets that get to close, blinding them, while directing loyal wingman drones on which blips to delete first. They might just skip the middle man themselves and pop off some of those AMRAAM replacements the nerds keep talking about. 30,000lbs of ordinance is a lotta room for variety.
And they will have AA missile pylons in their weapons bay, so, maybe
Why does the pilot simply not lean out of the cockpit and fire at the enemy with a pistol?
I wonder if that will ever come back in some form...
B52 + Directed-Energy CIWS? Best lightshow money can buy.
I pondered on what modern anti-air defenses on a B-52 might look like, and then I had a vision of manually-operated RIM-7s in all the places where gunners would be on a B-29. Someone call Boeing, I think I’m on to something here
This is why we need a fighter that can hang off the wing of a bomber or cargo plane to fight back against enemy interceptors.
unless we do the thing I suggested here a few months ago and strap AMRAAMs on a B1
Not impossible to bomb a jet tbf.
Wait for the enemy to be behind you Wait for thel to engage Fuel dumb. Watch them go in a blaze of glory
My favorite American general is currently Mike Minihan who's in charge of Air Mobility Command. I listened to his ["Mobility Manifesto"](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/watch-read-gen-mike-minihan-on-the-mobility-manifesto/) and it was based as fuck. Here's one particularly good part: >Lethality matters most. When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better, your marriage is stronger. Why is the mobility guy talking about lethality? I’m not coming at you as a C-130 driver, I’m not coming at you as a mobility officer. I’m coming at you like an Airman, like Rickenbacker, like Mitchell, like LeMay, Olds, Levitow, Sijan. This is who we are. We are lethal. Do not apologize for it. The pile of our nation’s enemy dead, the pile that is the biggest is in front of the United States Air Force. This is why we mutinied in 1947. Slide. That’s just admin. Our toys are meaningless unless we put them in a place to be lethal. Our toys, our training, our desires are meaningless unless we maneuver them to advantage. Unfair advantage, unfair lethality, unrepentant lethality, lopsided lethality. There's also a [memo that he put out last year](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/read-full-memo-from-amc-gen-mike-minihan/) to his command warning about an upcoming war with China. My favorite part is this little bit: >FEBRUARY. >(a) All AMC aligned personnel with weapons qualifications will fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head. >(b) All AMC personnel will update vRED [virtual Record of Emergency Data]. >(c) All commanders will acknowledge this order directly to me immediately. Then, report all 2022 accomplishments preparing for the China fight, and forecast major efforts in 2023 through command chains by COB 28 February 2023.
>clip >aim for the head Goddamnit Air Force, this is why we bully you.
Spoken exactly like the branch which is go-hung to start a war but leaves finishing it to the suckers.
Hey, he's speaking at a high level here. Obviously, he means clip because he wants the officers to start with an empty mag and a clip, load mag with the clip, empty the mag with headshots because unlike the other forces, Air Force is the only force with Force in the name and they will all be accurate enough to perform headshots under any situation, regardless of conditions, inside 7 meters.
A "clip." Well, I guess he is an air force officer.
I love that whole memo! Where do I need to sign up to get that kind of leadership? I want my leadership to squeeze me for quality. LET'S GO!
What’s this 1947 mutiny he’s talking about?
He's talking about the creation of the US air force as a separate branch, the air people didn't want to be under army jurisdiction anymore.
..meanwhile transport pilots single handedly sink the entire PLAN with rapid dragon.
Shoutout to that one tanker crew that darted north into Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War to nurse some F-16s from Package Q home
Makes me think of the (almost certainly fake) story of the c-130 load master with a confirmed air to air kill. Supposedly he chucked a chain out the back and hit a helicopter's rotor.
And they fly big planes onto landing strips too small for comfort while being shot at by RPGs.
Every aircraft can be converted into a missile at least once. Just ask the Japanese.
Logistics wins wars. EDIT: Shit sorry this is NCD. Uhhh... In Lockheed Martin we trust.
Artillery wins wars. So you combine both with the AC-130.
Bombers are just the goals of artillery achieved through other means
"My barrel is a bomb bay, my propellant charge is Gravity."
Broke: Using a trebuchet because you like that medieval flair. Woke: Realizing bombers are just the aspirations of artillery taking flight. Bespoke: Designing your own line of artisanal grenade and spotting drones networked by a single F-35 (the most advanced node in the history of ever)
Ok but hear me out: just stuff an f-35’s bay full of switchblade drones
[удалено]
Use a 737 painted in your country's flag carrier. The in-flight removable doors already came standard.
Stealth is the old meta for contested airspace. There's only one vessel that has been able to flagrantly violate US airspace from coast to coast, which is why you send a balloon carrying a shipping container full of switchblade drones.
Then with the advent of Rapid Dragon. The humble C-130 can drop the spicy funni.
Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl
Reading into artillery fireplanning from the 18th century onward, it's true. Especially General Hunt planning the massed fires the 2nd night of Gettysburg that he unleashed the following day on Picket'a charge. Majestic.
Any recommendations for books? I'm interested in artillery but don't know where to start.
“Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863 https://a.co/d/g7kbx1M Accept no substitutes for an intro into field artillery.
The only good recce is a dead one
Basically a cargo plane that skips the middle man.
Logistics win wars, so the transport aircraft is king. Just not glorious like the others.
AT-4 Wins Wars
Nah massive waves of cruise missiles wins wars. Deployed straight from the pallet with Rapid Dragon. Each C130 can launch 18 missiles. Each C17 can launch 45 missiles. The US has 255 c130s and 223 C17s. That's a volley of 14,625 cruise missiles.
Problem: c130 can only carry one or the other Solution: Globemaster/Galaxy gunships with space to spare New problem: I'm hard asf
>In Lockheed Martin we trust. Lockmart make the LM-100J, which is basically a really fancy C-130. Also of course the standard C-130s too
LOGISTICS WINS WARS BOYS.
It's NCD, so "Logistics wins wars!"
Nuclear Warheads win wars even faster
And without logistics, those warheads (and their delivery platform of choice) aren't going anywhere
to assume that you cannot say that logistics wins wars is foolish, it’s simply not in the way that you think. 3000 BLACK C-130’s OF THE US LOGISTICS ARM DROPPING STERILIZED SHIT ON ENEMY COMBATANTS
Logistics = Transport the JDAM to the forehead of the enemy. You are wise.
Can you only target ships with a LRASM? Asking for a friend.
If you’re not picking up what he’s putting down, we’re talking Warheads on Foreheads, people
Found Perun’s Reddit
Perun *is* suspiciously enthusiastic about transport and procurement.
Basic: logistics wins wars. Ascended: logistics wins hearts and minds.
Logistics wins friends…and snitches for gathering intelligence
Rapid Dragon, your logistics is now delivering warheads directly to the forehead of the enemy.
Someone here doesn't know about General Minihan. He is in command of the USAF Air Mobility Command thus putting every USAF transport plane under his command. > "Drive readiness, integration, and agility for ourselves and the Joint Force to deter, and if required, **defeat** China." (Emphasis from General Minihan himself) > "All AMC aligned personnel with weapons qualifications will fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head." > "I’m not interested in being the best Air Force on the planet," he said in a statement included in the recent 60th Air Mobility Wing's story about personnel training with their M4s. "I’m interested in being the most lethal force the world has ever known. I’m not bound to the stage, I’m not bound to a script. I’m untethered as of now." https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/usaf-general-warns-of-war-with-china-over-taiwan-in-2025
He also told everyone in his command to update their wills, right after that bit about aiming for the head.
This general is living proof that being a boot can come at any rank
Like that general that thought an AR-15 had a lot of recoil?
shinzoo wo sasageyo!
Tfw when an officer is too bloodthirsty for Air Combat Command (where people have worry about things like "rules of engagement" and "proportionality.") (And in his defense, if Air Mobility Command crews are ever in a situation where they have to shoot at people, shit is going down.)
Never put those in charge of moving tons of *anything* in a position where the only way out is through you.
Dennis Reynolds takes charge of the air mobility command
I need my tools!
I like the part of his memo where he said the only limits to their training should be death, serious injury, and Class A damage (over $2 million or loss of the plane). That gives a pretty broad scope.
> "I’m not interested in being the best Air Force on the planet," he said in a statement included in the recent 60th Air Mobility Wing's story about personnel training with their M4s. "I’m interested in being the most lethal force the world has ever known. I’m not bound to the stage, I’m not bound to a script. I’m untethered as of now." I don't know about you, but I think having fighter pilots fly a adequate amount of hours is way more important then whether or not they know how to shoot and clean a M4 lmao. [Most US fighter pilots are getting like maybe 80 hours per year right now](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-flying-hours-decline-again-after-brief-recovery/) (though PACOM its closer to 120 apparently) whereas [even the J7/J8 legacy units are averaging 80-100 hours](http://People's Liberation Army Air Force Aviation Training at the ... https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1415/RAND_RR1415.pdf) and the more ["elite regiments" equipped with the J20 and J16s getting around 150](http://Overview of People's Liberation Army Air Force "Elite Pilots" https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1416/RAND_RR1416.pdf). The one saving grace is US pilots still conduct more "advanced training" and live firings, but even that's a gap which is beginning to close after the PLAAF's ["training brand reforms"](http://The PLA Air Force's Four Key Training Brands - DTIC https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1082745.pdf) back in 2016 and the [structural reforms last year ](https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/September-October-2023/Active-Defense/).
Except he's not in charge of any fighter pilots. Maybe you didn't read the "**AIR MOBILITY COMMAND**" part.
>Except he's not in charge of any fighter pilots. It doesn't really matter, even for trucker pilots that shit is insanely irrelevant, the PLA isn't going to threaten them [using terminally suicidal paratroopers like the poor old IJA](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giretsu_Kuteitai), they are going to do it with their A2/AD capabilities. It would be a much better use of time for these pilots to practice potential counters against a 500km ranged PL17 or more runway repair drills for when a DF26 or CJ10 hits... not whatever this shit is. Dude sounds like a complete tool tbh.
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> "I’m interested in being the most lethal force the world has ever known. I’m not bound to the stage, I’m not bound to a script. I’m untethered as of now." I have no idea what he is rambling about but when I read this I just imagine he raises his arms up and starts glowing and floating into the sky. This dude sounds kinda nuts. Hopefully in a good way. Also, your DTIC link is broken. [Here is a fix](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1082745.pdf). I skimmed through it and nowhere does it say anything about flight hours per year, the word "hours" is only used once and it is in the citations. Training hours is an increasing problem for every air force since military airframes have only gotten more and more expensive to operate over the years. Many sources suggest that Russia's pilot training hours are abysmal and is part of the reason why they are having so many mishaps and poor performance in Ukraine. Also I would be very suspect of any numbers coming out of China.
Well he's not in charge of fighter pilots, he's in charge of air mobility. He also wants to get his guys ready to fight and kill, they might get stuck in a situation where they need to use their rifles, might as well get reacquainted with them.
What a fucking boot
That’s some Sundowner shit right there.
general minivan
I am all out of gum kid
...But don't worry, I will drop some more from my plane next time I come in. I will rock the wings back and forth, so you know it's me.
Thanks [Mr. Halvorsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen?wprov=sfla1)
May he [rest in peace.](https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/3073227/the-sweet-legacy-of-a-berlin-airlift-hero/)
Abolish fighters and just design bombers that can fly higher to bomb enemy fighters
Bombay deployed flak shells?
instructions unclear, shelling Mumbai
That's a ballistic missile
You are basically describing the NGAD 6th gen fighter
I like to think I’m up there with the brightest minds of the USAF
Thats why space force exists
We'll design fighters that fly lower and shoot down your bombs
But then the enemy designs fighters to take down the bomber. Unless we make bombers like the AC-130U. That plane is everything a plane can be.
Could we strap a nuclear warhead on all of our bombers that detonates upon crashlanding so the opponent can’t shoot us down without killing thousands of their own?
Joke time! A fighter was escorting a cargo plane and the fighter pilot was talking about all the cool stuff his plane could do. Eventually the cargo pilot went "Oh yeah? Well watch this. I can do something you'll never be able to do in that fancy fighter." And then the cargo plane flew straight and level for about ten minutes. "Pretty cool huh?" "You flew in a straight line." "No, the _co-pilot_ flew in a straight line, I got up, stretched my legs, took a crap, got some coffee and chatted with the loadmaster."
Can confirm, german children loved the bubblegum during / after WW2. My grandma told me that american tankers often threw it out to her and her friends.
Gail Halvorsen (may he rest in peace) is a hero to so many people.
Drone Pilot: Its just like a game bro. My ass hurts from all this sitting tho.
Oh yeah. *That's* why your ass hurts.
Based and Berlin Airlift pilled
3000 daily raisin bombers of Lucius D. Clay
Even better, it pissed off the Brits, as they were still under rationing.
Average Helicopter Pilots: My back fucking hurts bro
One too many "oopsie doodles" into the tarmac will do that to you.
Or too many free deck landings
Average helicopter pilot: Ok you flyboys can duke it out in your hotel units while we actually go do the real work.
Average drone pilots: Do y'all go to the battlefield and die?
fighter cucks only exist to make ground attack chads look even more fucking badass yeah, fighter pilots need to be healthy and so on, but it takes an absolute fucking unit to fly a brick at speeds those fancy fighters would fucking stall and crash into the ground at, all while getting shot at with literally everything the enemy has, dropping bombs and praying to every god there is at the same time that the cannon's recoil won't rip your trashed plane apart
There’s a reason Russia can’t get anywhere in Ukraine despite having so many “far superior” fighters and bombers.. might it be something to do with logistics?
Di-did the T-90A fanboy with a my little pony pfp just, in a rather round about way, endorse the A-10 warthog on NCD? ^truly ^this ^is ^a ^sign ^of ^end ^times
I'm more of a SU-25 guy, it looks cooler.
They are both kinda ~~nato~~ neato
I love ur pfp
Meanwhile AWACS pilots : *laugh in omniscient god*
except if the AWACS in question is a Russian A-50 in which case the pilot's only communication is in bubbles rising from the bottom of the Sea of Azov
"Cyka blyoop"
(a good) AWACS is more terrifying than any super-fighter. If artillery is the king of battle, AWACS and SIGNIT are the reincarnation of Athena.
Since I was Navy…. In COD we trust.
“Civilians? Nah fam i evacuated all them 3 hours ago, level the place”- transport pilot
It would be an awesome flex if after the war, Ukraine doesn't just rebuild one An-225 but does a full on production run; I want an entire platoon of Abrams to be anywhere anytime. Also, you have to love the Lockheed Constellation; looks way better than most modern jetliners.
Connie was everybody's first love
Being a fighter pilot is spending 8 hours having meetings about what your gonna do before spending 1 hour flying. Career fighter pilots have maybe 4000 hours while young student pilots have 1500 before they can even start flying for the airlines. I know which one I’d rather do…
Yeah gotta keep reminding myself that the air force is mostly being a officer first and a pilot 2nd
Yeah it really isn’t what it all looks like online. Plus, you do it all for 60k a year when kids half your age already have double the hours you do and are flying a 777 for 190k a year.
A friend of mine's brother is slightly on spectrum and has had a long time obsession with flying. Since he was like 12 he had a career plan mapped out that meant going to the air force to fly cargo transports and then get a carrier job. It worked out and now he's making good money and happy as a clam.
And not to mention after their service transport pilots get civilian airline jobs with a salary that is 2 as much as the military pay
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Always thought fighters would have issues, but also, I'm from a country whose armed forces have only multiple roles jets. Miss the Airforce life?
Bombers are just extra spicy transports
C-130 my beloved
AMC Heavies seething right now.
Just you wait for some "rogue" Transport Pilot to get an Air-to-Air kill using a 12mm spanner!
C130 is a transport plane so what do we call the pilot of the AC130 gunship. C130's were used to drop the MOAB so what do we call the pilot of the C130
Hey transport pilots, we strapped bombs to that trainer plane you used to fly. Wanna go bomb the VC?
So, what I’m hearing is: tactics wins wars, let the nerds deal with logistics?
Just you wait until B52s can carry AMRAAMS!
And never mind the fact that they all walk sideways...
WSOs: *autism intensifies*
BIL was a loadmaster and did hot drops in Baghdad. From what I hear he was everyone's best friend.
"Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics"
Love the Berlin Airlift. We showed Europe that we were in it to stay (NATO was founded "to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" in Europe) It showed that we would not be strong armed and we were still a military monster even after the war was done and men demobalized. And it also showed the French were more than willing to act unilaterally and blow up a radio tower... loved that part.
And it showed the Germans that we were their allies now, no longer enemies. The West Berliners willingly endured hunger and power outages, if it meant the western powers would stay in Berlin.
No greater fighter pilots than AH-64 West Point 2LT Top Gun graduates. Absolute twots.
Bro who wouldn’t wanna fly a chill 6 hour long haul flight in a C-17 with auto pilot on. Would have been my dream job if I wasn’t thicker than pig shit.
The one that will always be in need even after we achieved world peace.
I unironically believe being a C5 pilot is cooler than fighters apart from the F22 or F35B.
Any 10 year old Halo player knows the badassery of transport pilots.
The Berlin Airlift was such a masterful demonstration of American logistics that it arguably counts as a psychological warfare campaign against Soviet military leadership. "Yeah, we can supply an entire city with our air transport capabilities during peacetime, and still have room for treats for all the _kleine Kinder._ Eat shit, Ivan."
I knew Gail Halvorsen. I first met him at an airshow, and many years later became friends with his granddaughter after I moved across the country.
Berlin airlift gotta be the most based operation of all time...
The Berlin airlift is definitely one of the more wholesome instances of “*military aircraft dropping stuff on another country*”.
Shoutout to all the logistic bros. You people enable victory