RpRRpR This is what I tried to explain to Chas, but I think he understands what I was stating now.
I have mentioned this before a long time ago, I was stopped and booked for speeding in Flagstaff AZ, for being just 2 MPH over the limit. It was a ticket job,, which I paid at the Grand Canyon Post Office. I think 2 MPH, over, and being booked was harsh, If it were me, on my old job, and had it been something like 4 or 5 MPH over the limit, then the motorist would have been given a stern talking to, but no way would I have booked him.
As a matter of interest, what would have happened to me if I had refused to accept the ticket?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7
Depends on location.
In the long run though, you failing to pay the fine would result in some long running action from bizzare to legal hell, again depending on location and the phates.
I had one speeding ticket, sent the money in and they sent it back saying I already paid it.
Go figure.
RpRProbably as stupid as true. The middle eastern adventures prove just that. Not only has the US taken a beating in the field, they also ruined their economy in the process. And the funny thing is that in 3 years you have Iran controlling Iraq and the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, but the US will still have the debts of those wars.
It has only been a cluster-fu– because the people supposedly running the show are more concerned with looking politically correct showing concern for being humane rather than simply going out and killing the *******s and anyone connected with them and getting it finished.
RpRRick, Read the word Criminal instead of Felon, basicaly the same. So read the top line again re a “Criminal” being able to get a gun if they want to.
Jim.
Lincoln .7
You cannot do that as the Federal Constitution and States Constitutions separate felonies from petty crimes.
It is silly to try to link the two.
Being an illegal alien in the U.S. is a petty crime which is why some are not trying to make it a felony.
Petty crimes cost money of a few days in jail if you do not pay; felonies send people to prison.
RpRRick, Read the word Criminal instead of Felon, basicaly the same. So read the top line again re a “Criminal” being able to get a gun if they want to.
Jim.
Lincoln .7
You cannot do that as the Federal Constitution and States Constitutions separate felonies from petty crimes.
It is silly to try to link the two.
Being an illegal alien in the U.S. is a petty crime which is why some are not trying to make it a felony.
Petty crimes cost money of a few days in jail if you do not pay; felonies send people to prison.
RpRThe J20 is not highly maneuverable. It’s a double delta Canard with a low relaxed stability gradient. It’s a striker or more likely a fleet “denier”. The canard is there to improve the overall lift with the original delta plan shape.
The J31 on the contrary is a fighter will all the needed atributes.
Both are formidable design but (my guess) with fragile feet.
Do not bet on it.
I have tape of early tests of the B-70 and pilots said it was very maneuverable at low altitudes.
The tape shows altitudes of sub 1000 ft.
RpRAs said above, the US does not ask itself which wars it will be fighting, but which wars it still can afford to fight. It is the experience from Vietnam all over again. Fighting a war while keeping the states budget and taxes in peace time mode will kill oyur budget. the good thing is that today there is no Cold War going, so the US can afford to reduce the armed forces much more. The US has reached a point, where hanging on to old planes and equipment to avoid a capability gap, will just create a bigger gap in the future, as there no money to keep the old stuff in service and introduce the new equipment. Every F-15 flight hour costs 36.000$ a F-16C roughly half. This means you can keep 2 F-16 for one F-15C. Or One F-16 + 16.000$ for new planes. Going by a 180 planes fleet and 1000 hours per year for each plane. This is 2.880.000.000 if you just fly an F-16 instead of an F-15.
Cost has zero to do with whether or not the U.S. will or will not go to war, period.
The F-15 is a far more capable aircraft than the F-16.
Pilots I have communicated with said in war games where the sixteen went against the fifteen the fifteen won the far majority of the time.
RpRFair assessment Rii.
It would be interesting to see an Iran-Iraq 1980-88 type scenario with medium powers with limited budgets (mind you most aircraft used were simpler third generation jets).
To push the what if scenario a little farther: One of the sides has dozens of Badgers fully modified with a big-belly BUFF type treatment, and enough Wild Weasel type aircraft to make ground to air a willy-nilly hit and miss affair.
While the BUFF in “Nam blew up a lot of people, what the raids did to the enemies minds was just as effective.
RpR
RpRYou
You’ve obviously got no idea how CAS, or ground warfare for that matter is done. I say this because you seem to be describing WW1 using B-52’s as air support.
You are fighting your let’s pretend comic book war, I am using something was was very real.
Go back to your comic books little boy, or get a life.
Too many posters here treat war a a comic book or video game. To be expected when one is young and ignorant I guess, I was once that way, but the world does not revolve around that.
Bush started a war in Iraq on let’s pretend principles that got thousands of grunts killed needlessly.
You are ignoring that people die in wars die because some self-appointed expert, with an attitude like yours, sitting behind a desk, makes asinine decisions based on ignorance and arrogance.
RpRSeems we’re going back to WWII when fighter-attack/bomber ratios usually favoured the bombers.
I think instead of bombers, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles with conventional (maybe individually targeted) MIRV type warheads.
You will need cruise missiles that can drop large bombs in clusters, before diving into final destination, for wide area destruction .
In large scale war, I do believe work had been done to put conventional warheads on submarine ballistic missiles.
Interceptors once carried cluster of unguided rockets for air to air work, and at least one aircraft was shot down in “Nam with unguided rockets.
No electronic way of defending against them, its all plane and pilot.
RpRAnyway, doesn’t that idea contradict what you said a few sentences before in your post, you know the bit about “No outside country should be involved as they have not attacked or affected any outside country, period” .
I do not want the Russians there to police the Syrians, I want them there to keep the West out by attacking any Western aircraft that attacks Syrian aircraft but as I said, Assad, would not believe that the Russians would stop at that.
By the time the West quit having hissy fits over such a situation, the civil war would probably be over and Russia would have a good idea of the misery involved in the operation a force in a location a long ways away where no one really likes you. Kind of like NATO in Afghanistan.
If President Carter had not stuck his head up his buttocks to warm his tiny brain and interfered when the Soviets went into Afghanistan, we would not be having the misery we have now.
Of course it started when Carter found out how much fun sticking his head up his buttocks was when he abandoned the Shah of Iran and let the nut-job Muslims take over, so he apparently he got addicted to sticking his head up his buttocks as his presidency results showed.
RpRThe U.S. Army will never get the A-10’s. The USAF would retire them first before they allow that to happen.
You are absolutely correct in that.
The Army was supposed to get its own fixed wing air support units but R. Strange McNamara and his ass kissing buddies in the Air Force killed that.
One Army OV-1 did get a Mig kill in “Nam which was buried classified information till recently and the Italians sent a G-91 in full Army colors to the trials that were being conducted for the Army Air Unit before morons killed that plan.
RpRUSAF is not going to turn the technology clock back by 40 years! USAF will use JDAMs with 1 meter accuracy called in by the Joint Terminal Attack Controller.
Let’s see, the enemy is stretched out over a mile or more, numbering from a few hundred to a thousand or more.
You cannot see them most of the time, except the ones making a rush that are killed a few feet from breaching the line, and you are going to drop JDAMs on an area covering tens of miles square on an enemy whose location is only a general location .
Good Lord, I would not want you in charge of air support or the body bags would come by the hundreds every day.
RpRThe troubles in Syria, is Syria’s problem.
No outside country should be involved as they have not attacked or affected any outside country, period. (What the West has FUBARed in Libya and Egypt would pale compared to what Syria would turn into.)
Israel may have a legitimate concern but no one else does.
Russia should send their very best fighter squadrons and tell the world let this play itself out.
You shoot them down, we shoot you down.
Of course Assad would not let that happen as he would fear the Russians were just there to hasten his exit.
RpRI spend a lot of time doing research, and passing on what I find to those who ask for help; if these are platitudes, then I’m proud of them, and will continue to offer help.
Then your research must be bogus or just plain bs.
If control laws helped, Chicago would be one of the safest cities in the country. It is one of the worst.
Gun control laws keep firearms out of the hands of law abiding citizens, and no one else.
If the ex-armed robber who is father of some of my nieces and nephews were still alive (cancer did him in) I would want him to meet you, he always liked a good comedian.
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