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Seems like a bad idea to me.

escobar said:

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So they just fired rockets & called it hyper sonic?

Reaper drone crashed in Romania. So much for American quality.

meckhardt98 said:

Bell Invictus prototype nearly complete [90%].

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Damn that is fugly. Poor taste. Just like all the new Hollywood movies.

kbecks said:

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As soon as it came out that this loyal wingman would cost $300 million each, it seemed ridiculous for them to buy it.

It's kind of strange to me that us still hasn't developed something like gj11 after this many years. X47b flew over 10 years ago! Maybe there is a classified program we don't know about.

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Nice to see USAF coming round to the same position I put forward two years back:

Lethe said:

Even if nuclear weapons were not in the picture, an unmanned strategic or even theatre-level bomber is a silly idea. The payload/range benefits of going unmanned diminish as the total size of the aircraft increases because the weight and volume required to support a given number of pilots/crew is more or less constant regardless of the size of the aircraft. Additionally, the challenges of remote control/situational awareness that all unmanned platforms face are most acute in precisely the environment a bomber is intended to operate, i.e. far from friendly basing/forces and in at least medium and potentially even close proximity to hostile forces including EW/jamming capabilities.

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New information on the MC-130J presented at U.S. Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2022 [SOFIC 2022].


Very interesting project that will likely be further developed into at-least one demonstration model; giving an unprecedented airlift capability not seen in modern transport aircraft.

Less than one-quarter of young American adults are physically fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in recent years. And shifting attitudes toward military service mean that now only about 1 in 10 young people say they would even consider it.

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Less than one-quarter of young American adults are physically fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in recent years. And shifting attitudes toward military service mean that now only about 1 in 10 young people say they would even consider it.

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There’s a lot of shortages in manpower currently which is why we’re seeing an influx of enlistment incentives.

Not to mention that currently the retention bonuses and incentives have gone up exponentially over the past few months due to many active duty personnel leaving due to better opportunities in the civilian sector and the uncertainly that came with pandemic disappearing.

The department of defense is in a scramble to keep service members in while meeting quotas for the year; going as far as utilizing active duty service members for recruitment purposes in exchange for decorations which adds points towards promotion.

It’s quite unfortunate and is severely hindering the operational capability of the armed forces and putting unnecessary strain on those who’ve chosen to stay in.