Hornet vs F35

[JTS11]

Haha to be fair, now that i think about it, my complaint is mostly with the local plopter people……who LARP’d being real fixed wing airplanes flying real FW departures

I will say the VFR helo course rules out of NKX were designed to deal with the complex Bravo airspace and NIMBY local politics. I was still a young CP when eagle-eyed residents of Del Mar were insistent that we weren't 1 NM from their palatial beachfront home. It eventually died out..somewhat. Get bent to all you fucks up that coast.

 

[Random8145]

Stumbled across this on Amazon: Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy

 

[Flash]

The threat environment in Ukraine and Azerbaijan may look different than a naval environment, but the basic tenants remain. The biggest advantage we had was the ability to pick and choose where/when to conduct an operation. We no longer have that advantage. Even CAPT Hughes (Your welcome, nerds) highlighted the critical nature of scouting and finding the enemy first for at-sea engagements. These sensors are widely available to even the lowest of non-state actors. I found it fascinating the Houthis (a third-rate military) essentially conducted a coordinated and well timed F2T2EA process using various munition types. That would have been unheard of 10-20 years ago. (Please don't scream EMCON at me).

As BigRed already mentioned, the Huthis are in a bit of a unique position in that they control a significant chunk of territory adjacent to one of the busiest and most confined shipping lanes in the world. While what they have been able to do is impressive to a degree they have not had a great deal of success even with the information available to them, some of which will not be available to others in a wartime scenario.

And yes, EMCON still matters. It still remains a challenge to try and find ships if they don't want to be found.

 

[Pakol]

If we could get six in the bay and a no-meetings-prior-to-1300 waiver, I think we’d have this future war thing in the bag.