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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

Flash

SEVAL/ECMO
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Another wrinkle, for the JPME guys/gals in the room: If the A-10 is so crucial to the SSBN port escort mission, why has the USAF consistently tried to divest itself the aircraft dating back 10+ years? And, not once did the Navy offer to take it, or argue that it was needed by the Air Force for “SSBN stuff.”

Maybe somebody with an NC3 CONUS protection mission just has a bunch of A-10s and not much else, and therefore every task starts to look like a nail when all you’ve got are hammers lying around.

A single escort mission does not make it crucial, they were likely just the available aircraft that were assigned a mission. Simple as that.

We actually debated this pic around the office this afternoon - the conclusion, reached by folks who have lots of JPME and understand how this stuff works, that this "armed overwatch" is very likely a directly funded STRATCOM or NORTHCOM thing - or maybe a combination. But they explained that there are very real reasons why this mission is executed the way it is considering the players.

I'm like, "hey Navy submarine - it should be a grey Navy jet overhead"..

"Dude, that's not how it works". Boink.

I proceed to stick my head back in my cubicle.

You mean you're actually trainable?
 

Hair Warrior

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A single escort mission does not make it crucial, they were likely just the available aircraft that were assigned a mission. Simple as that.
An earlier post by someone else made it seem like it was a recurring thing for A-10s? If a one-off, I stand corrected.
 

Llarry

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Edo was a manufacturer of seaplane floats that in 1946 designed a floatplane. Bad timing, if you ask me: The Curtiss SC-1 floatplane was the standard (and relatively new) fleet floatplane on battleships and cruisers, but the whole concept was about to become obsolete with the widespread use of helicopters imminent. Needless to say, Edo did not get a big production contract.

XOSE-1 1946.jpg
 

jmcquate

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F-16 Demo team goes retro:
1000w_q95.jpg
 

Uncle Fester

Robot Pimp
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New Jersey and JFK.
Word is JFK is making the tow to Brownsville next month to be cut up.
Jeez, I thought that had happened to the Slack Jack long ago. I saw her sitting pierside in Philly a few years ago the last time I flew into PHL. Looked to be in sad shape, at least from a distance.

New Jersey is looking pretty smart, at least. Did they say what theyre doing to her in the yards besides a fresh coat of paint?
 
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