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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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After reading this 10 times, I am honestly asking this question. What are you trying to say here?
To my knowledge, the oath is optional only when promoting as a commissioned officer. I assume this is because your commission doesn't have an end date like enlistment contracts.
The "so help me God" bit is optional, because Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3, but not the meat of it.
The "so help me God" bit is optional, because Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3, but not the meat of it.
Interesting article: $3B for 60 large (tanker sized) hardened shelters. Read that China has constructed 800 solid shelters and another 2,300 to protect against shrapnel. If the B-1’s had been left on the tarmac in the UK, do you think some or all of the bombers would have been destroyed by a drone strike similar to what Ukraine did to Russia?
Hardened Shelters Critical To Survival Of USAF's Tanker Fleet: Study
An independent assessment calls for new action to prevent critical aerial refueling assets from being neutralized before they even get in the air.
www.twz.com
Interesting article: $3B for 60 large (tanker sized) hardened shelters. Read that China has constructed 800 solid shelters and another 2,300 to protect against shrapnel. If the B-1’s had been left on the tarmac in the UK, do you think some or all of the bombers would have been destroyed by a drone strike similar to what Ukraine did to Russia?
Hardened Shelters Critical To Survival Of USAF's Tanker Fleet: Study
An independent assessment calls for new action to prevent critical aerial refueling assets from being neutralized before they even get in the air.
On what timeline and at what cost overrun? How many other politicians will say, "we need that at my ANG base, too!"?
The time to build these was 20 years ago. They might have been ready before every base in CENTCOM got smoked. Even then, we have so many regulations about what you can and can't do in a hangar I'm not sure that they would have helped.
Long range missions are going to become normal. And then we're going to chew through airframes and engines like popcorn because our airplanes were not designed for 12 hour combat sorties.
We need more than body armor. We need a way to defend against the threat. I'm not sure what it is. I know that mobility and maneuver beat heavy armor in almost every scenario.
Good question. Here’s an example from Korea a few years ago: 4 years, 20 (smaller) shelters,
Fun fact: back before computers and lawyers, the Empire State Building was built in 1 year, 45 days while the entire Hoover Dam complex was constructed in under 5 years.
During which time ~100-ish people died.
Even when not doing MILCON, NAVFAC manages to find ways to come in over-budget and over-time. I think the only way you can accelerate things like this is some sort of national emergency which will help cut through everyone's rice bowls.
Everyone knows....AI can't see through tires.
It actually probably wasn't crazy and actually worked for a week, until they trained the AI to see the pattern. There is a new family of camouflage designed to fool AI, with fake corners and shading designed to fool pattern recognition algorithms.
I dislike the Russian government and hope they lose the war, but agreed - this was probably a somewhat clever idea that worked for a little bit of time until it was defeated.
I am a pretty skeptical technologist but the pace of development in this war has been unbelievable to watch.
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A/C Wings Here
Off set weight and balance maybe? I don't see any prop shadows on the deck.
I just kinda feel bad for whatever airman got tasked to lay out the tires only to remove them a week later.
This made my Friday afternoon!