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F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by pydry »

mannerheim wrote: post #430
pydry wrote: post #354

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Because it cost $2 trillion and it's so so. Mostly becausr it cost $2 trillion. $2 trillion is a fair chunk of cash. Allies buying American hardware isnt necessarily a sign of quality, also. America puts pressure on them to buy its hardware.

Turkey seems awfully broken up about not being allowed to buy the F-35.

Turkey had a choice between S400s from Russia and F-35s and they chose the S400. Theyve since doubled down on that choice.

Realistically it was probably the better choice.

The US MIC was probably more cut up about it than Turkey which is probably why this stunt was pulled: https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/06/29/us-could-buy...

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Post by lukev »

simmerup wrote: post #428
23B1 wrote: post #412

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HN weighing in on military stuff is always comedy to those of us who've been in the military. It's nobody's fault – this stuff can be baroque in its complexity – but it does make for some entertaining reading!

HN weighing in on anything outside of tech is comedy

Also tech, a good portion of the time.

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Post by gowld »

MarkMarine wrote: post #374
tg16 wrote: post #358

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Not really, sometimes a plane will land itself even after the pilot ejects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

If you read that Wikipedia page, it’s pretty clear the plane would have not recovered without the change in nose attitude from the ejection.

Which contradicts your original claim that "no AI is going to regain control at that point."

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Post by kube-system »

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #408
kube-system wrote: post #323

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There should never be any judgement regarding a child's financial situation during the school day. The place where I grew up handled this in the best possible way: Every kid got a lunch if they went through the lunch line, without exception. The school system simply kept track of which students got a meal, and at the end of the month, they'd either mail a bill or it would be covered through the free lunch program. Un…

the issue here is that how is it determined who is eligible for the free lunch program after the fact? The parents are too negligent to sign up, their account goes into arrears and the kid ends up skipping the line out of fear getting punished for it. Parents have to sign up and too many don't give a crap

> and the kid ends up skipping the line out of fear getting punished for it.

No, as I said above, every kid got a lunch without exception. The record keeping was unidirectional. The lunch line tallied the quantity of lunches that were handed out to each student and reported this to the district, but the district did not report back anything about paying bills to anyone at the school. Nobody in the lunch room knew anything about the finances of any student. They were tasked only with handing out lunches.

> Parents have to sign up and too many don't give a crap

This is better to make a problem of the district's finance department, not the individual school. They can solve this by mailing bills to parents and/or information about signing up for lunch programs. This is not a problem to solve by holding a child's lunch hostage.

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Post by dralley »

kilolima wrote: post #307
dogman144 wrote: post #247

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This is an… unorthodox take from the ground commander/fires perspective or conversely the orthodox take from the USAF perspective. Hard lessons from the GWOT have firmly put the A10 as the most capable CAS platform, and it’s taught as such in all joint fires classes to forward observers and also via unit history/anecdotes fires units (“A10 saved my butt in ‘12”). A10 pilots and units also have a much better rep for C…

As long as the Air Farce runs CAS, instead of the army, they will continue to attempt to kill any mission that doesn't involve winning wars through the holy doctrine of Air Power (ie incinerating as many civilians as possible).

...Is this supposed to be a defence of the A-10?

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Post by woodruffw »

ensignavenger wrote: post #105
woodruffw wrote: post #92

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As of 2021, roughly 1 in 8 children in the US experience food insecurity[1]. [1]: https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/child-hunge...

"food insecurity" is not the same as starving.

I’ll be sure to let the kids know!

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Post by dralley »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #373
Invictus0 wrote: post #343

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F16's 50th anniversary is next year. They're still being flown by many countries around the world, including the US, and will soon be fighting in Ukraine.

I believe the U-6A Beaver is the oldest design still operated by the US military. Initial design was 1947, still being used as tow planes for gliders in the Navy.

That feels a bit like cheating. B-52 is nearly as old and is legitimately widely used.

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Post by MarkMarine »

mrb wrote: post #403
grogenaut wrote: post #356

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to add 4 - if you had control with some badass AI why not land the plane safely for a recovery... the example in both the OP and the GP are planes lost in the country they are from not in enemy territory. The planes are not cheap... why would you purposefully wreck it in in a safe location.

Actually my example assumed being in enemy territory. Nosedive the airplane for maximum destruction, to prevent the enemy from recovering anything useful from the crash site.

What do you think they’ll get? China already hacked in and grabbed the full design docs for the F-35. They have a stealth clone of it.
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