Military & International Affairs nerd. Mostly naval, but all aspects welcome. Oh, & plastic spaceships, that too. All opinions on all subjects my own #WeAreNAFO
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If you are not willing to sacrifice justice and national self-determination on the altar of “peace”, then shut the fuck up about how the Ukraine invasion is NATO’s fault.
If you are, I commend the forthrightness of your cowardice. Слава Україні! Героям слава!
This was from X-Men: First Class, and outward resemblance not withstanding, absolutely nothing like either the A-12 or the SR-71
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Rare bad take here. SEAWOLF was wildly expensive (if wildly capable), but cost was not the only driver for either CENTURION or any of the VA Blocks. Blocks III and V each by themselves prove this point, V in particular.
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Slowly moving over to the other place. Find me there, though I’m probably not abandoning here entirely
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Zelensky:
"We aren't ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist Putin".
I need this on a plaque for my office
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Point of order, they don’t, and the ones that do either can’t do shit or are basically what we have anyway.
Sidebar: the number of blue check bots quoting this with the exact same verbiage is hilarious.
Admiral: "They're untested. The maintenance alone..."
Palmer: "Analyst, why do you like them?"
Analyst: "Because they survive first contact, sir."
Palmer: "Exactly. Instead of building another $13B target, we could build presence and lethality across thousands of platforms."
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How’s my mood this morning? Discovering that I did in fact get my own into my pocket was a significant boost. Draw your own conclusions.
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America is positioned to defend herself and her allies. But I will do so with an undated resignation letter in my desk, because my conscience will not let me not have the option of my hope is in vain.
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I didn’t decide it in advance but this is where I’ve landed. For the sake of my son and his generation, I’m holding out hope the American project survives in a meaningful way, and since I don’t think I can change that, I will instead continue to help make sure that…
I decided well in advance that if Trump legit won, I would not quit -- were I within a year or two of retirement maybe different, but I'm not -- but I also will have my limits. And I'll put that oath ahead of keeping the job
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This describes far more of the GAO’s work than most people realize, in part because the GAO has few SMEs to do this analysis and relies on generalists without sufficient background knowledge. But you’d only know that usually after either becoming or knowing a SME.
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Imagine thinking that a relevant statistic for F-35 MC rates was how much money the Navy, the Marines, and *checks notes, squints* the Army spent on aircraft O&M.
If ignorance is bliss, this would be cloud 9.
This isn’t a problem that can be fixed just by more money.
“That’s despite the Army, Navy and Marine Corps spending $12 billion, or about 21%, of $57.2 billion for aircraft operations and maintenance appropriated by Congress during that time.” 3/
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Meh why not
1. F-22
2. F-35
3. F-15EX
4. Any other F-15
5. B-52
6. B-1
7. F-14
8. SR-71
9. F-8
10. F6F
Honorable mentions: MiG-21, Tu-22M, Su-27
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And people wonder why I view India as the next revanchist adversary the U.S. must face after/with China
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