Posted on 02/22/2022 4:29:29 AM PST by servo1969
Free Tibet!
After Vietnam the USAF had up to a 30% down rate and that was considered horrible. We had more aircraft then than now, so at least we could get more airplanes in the air then. The ratings improved in the 1980’s and 90+% was achieved.
The USAF was experimenting with social justice since the 1960’s and it showed by 1980. Incompetence grew to ensure women and minorities were recruited. Men needed high ASVAB scores, women just needed the right plumbing and minorities the right skin color; they would get ASVAB score waivers.
It has only gotten worse by today.
“I don’t know if it’s true, but I recently read the F-16 defeated the F-35 in simulated air-to-air combat.”
Eyeball to eyeball dog fighting, I can see it happening easily.
“The good news is that our pilots, for now, remain qualified, talented, and highly motivated”
True, but what is their motivation? To fly, and fly cool airplanes, but to eventually get out and fly for the airlines making bank.
I don’t know about now, but I remember the F-16 was the most maneuverable fighter back in the day.
(I was young, so it might have been in a movie…)
I have never been more disgusted and embarrassed by what the US has become.
I don’t feel patriotic in a communist country.
“..Eyeball to eyeball dog fighting, I can see it happening easily...”
The F-16 is no slouch, especially when the F-35 pilot is wearing high heels. /s
I live near Tyndall AFB and run into F-35 pilots. They are sharp and motivated, but they wonder what is missing or what is flawed in the airplane. They get the intel briefings on enemy aircraft comparisons, but they wonder how much is just BS spouted by people who would never say an unkind word against the airplane the politicians get kickbacks to support. Pilots are also TDY here, so they have to stay until training is complete. Downtime sucks for them.
There was an article on FR years ago with a howitzer company that also did not speak English
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If it was a Marine company, your worries are over - the Top Marine got rid of Marine artillery along with tanks and amphibs - turning Marines into just another part of the US Army.
F-16 defeated the F-35
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one is a bomb truck and the other an air superiority fighter - guess which one is which.
It’s worth remembering that the navy started WWII without a working torpedo and nearly every aircraft in our arsenal was a hopeless joke.
Even without wokeness, our military is a cornucopia of perfumed princes in peacetime whose corruption is exceeded only by their incompetence. And wokeness has utterly institutionalized that corruption and incompetence to the point that the corrupt and incompetent are indignantly self righteous.
Pilots wonder what is missing or what is flawed in the airplane
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missing:
Survivability
Mission
Purpose
flawed:
Weapons
Maintenance
I was part of a pilot training program for the Saudis. They were idiots. Royalty was passed no matter how bad they were.
Cannon fodder infantry.
“You don’t know the anxiety, the despair, the heartache, the fear, the rage and the disappointment that comes with living in this country... every single day.”
The door of immigration swings both ways. Why are YOU still here?
insane.. our country has gone insane...
At this rate we’re lucky Tibet doesn’t invade US!
I, for one, welcome our new Tibetan overlords.
Long live the Dalai Lama!!
“Tip of the Smear”
Are you stating that the military thought the F-16 would be superior in an air to air battle?
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