Posted on 09/09/2016 10:10:59 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Russian goals:
Battlefield Superiority
Effective Battle Troops
EMP weapons, 5th gen aircraft
Actually win conflicts/defeat enemies
US goals:
Gays, Trannies safe spaces in military
Women in combat even if lying about capabilities
Ships (LCS) and planes (f35) that do not work
Arming ISIS
Don’t hurt Barry’s muslim jihad brothers
That is certainly the impression you get....
The Obama admin tried to, but failed. Rare win for us over the last 7 years...
You can’t have a superpower existing if you want a global government.
It is also the reason they have declared war on the christian white countries and their cultures, and no where else.
Whites are too intelligent (as a group, Bell Curve) and do not go with the flow of things - they muck up the works because they have much larger numbers that derail globalist plans potentially.
It is why they have gone after white men in particular to get them out of positions of power. Replace them with women and minorities that will not rock the boat or say no to idiotic pc bullsh1t. Not all whte guys like this, but enough that it’s a known problem. They know women go with the flow and follow zero tolerance/pc bullcrap orders despite not agreeing.
Well put.
People don’t remember the 1980s when the F-16 was the problem child. Along with the mountain of technical problems, we were losing anywhere between 12 and 20 aircraft per year and killing 6-8 pilots per year. How about FY82 when the Class A mishap rate was 15.83/100,000 flight hours with 16 destroyed jets vs. a rate of 1-3 per 100,000 flight hours in the 2000s with ONE unsuccessful ejection in 15 years (and that was because the pilot attempted ejection above 600 knots and about 2 seconds before the jet went in). How many crashes have the F-35 had? And don’t tell me that they’re grounded due to maintenance problems, I live 3 miles from an AF base where they’re buzzing the place like fireflies.
How about Vietnam, when the new killer F-111 went in and the VC turned them into scrap metal at a rate that got McNamara titillated? How about the AV-8 “Widowmaker”?
What’s the difference today? The ability to whip up hysteria via the internet and people who will believe anything (the slobbering believers of cold fusion and engines that are 500% efficient here at FR are proof of that).
Love Lockheed Martin’s MLRS but the F-35...there needs to be charges for letting this go on so long.
The problem with your theory is this:
The equipment is still on the moon and is still visible from Earth with a high-powered telescope. You can probably see the American flag too!
I just read a news report a few days ago on the F-35B VTOL.
The Marine Corps just completed a three month test on it and rated it excellent in every category.
Every new major weapon system the USA builds seems to go through this same “complete disaster” phase for several years.
Then, miraculously, they all become the best, or one of the best, weapon systems in the world.
I keep having the uneasy feeling that many "programs" can never be completed as intended. The other military-related program that comes easily to mind in the "littoral" stealth coastal defense warships.
In the non-military arena there are of course many more examples. Self-driving cars, cell phone controlled homes, computerized critical civilization infrastructure, e.g. the electrical grid, water and sewage treatment plants, safety in the world transportation system, including all land and water transportation as well as the obvious air-travel system.
What could all these seemingly unrelated things have in common?
Hmmmmm... indeed!
See A-12 “Avenger”/1 Billion $s and all we got was a drawing.
You see? You see? The mythos has already set in. What you say is entirely false. The Apollo landing site images are from lunar orbiter craft, such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) . Once these are gone, and knowledge of them has been forgotten ( already happening, ) ignorant remarks such as you just made will be shot down in a second.
For all the good that will do.
The missing ingredients are common sense, rendered useless by sclerotic thinking and planning, hampered by bureaucratic inefficiencies and "political correctness," in more forms than we are equipped or allowed to deal with.
The whole subject feels maddeningly useless.
I used to believe that our demise would be caused by political correctness, but there is a new much more intractable and fatal stupidity : the imbecilic phrase, "That's not who we are."
Since I can't unlearn everything I know, including science, physics and history, I have to refute that conviction.
At least to the extent of the stated 100 years.
At least three arrays of retroreflectors (also called retroprisms) were left on the moon. Although their efficacy will certainly degrade to the point of uselessness through deterioration of their precisely ground surfaces by micrometeorite action, it will take far far longer than 100 years.
Since they are all pretty much constantly visible from the earth, their existence can be confirmed by instruments as primitive as the telescopes used by Galileo to discover the Jovian moons.
It is impossible for naturally occuring retroreflectors to exist.
So the pictures from Mt Palomar will be classified as fakes then right?
Trump is the only one brave enough to cut this program
that 7 trillion will mean nothing compared to, what at this point, seems like chinese and Russian air superiority soon, and we will be playing catch up too late.
China wont wait for us to update or add to our forces, when they keep the new island by force.
Reminds me of Sen Dirksen's comment,....A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.....
How about when funding was halted for the Bell-Boeing V-22 tiltrotor aircraft? (Dick Cheney did that under Bush 41) ....It was later restored and the aircraft is now lauded by the Marines and Air Force.
Yes, The alternative is admitting we aren't as capable as those primitives in the 1960's.
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