The F-22 can't even drop a bomb on a moving target. It's an extremely limited aircraft.
And I personally have no idea why people are so obsessed with it and why they think it's some kind of wunderwaffen.
The F-22 has a lot of major problems. It served as a good learning platform for what the F-35 became. Improvements in the design of the fuselage, the LO coatings, the avionics, and a lot of that can't simply be "upgraded" into the F-22. I mean, the LO coatings alone - the F-35 uses a different type of LO coating and allows the vast majority of panels to be accessed without any LO maintenance. The F-22 requires very costly LO removal/repainting with most maintenance, which means the aircraft have to be held down for typically about three days just for one panel. What this means is in the F-22 world, they're basically flying around with a ton of Code-2 writeups until they can hold the aircraft down for a week. If you look at a good picture of the F-22, it looks like it's covered with 'digicam', because of the constant patch jobs needed on the LO.
The PTMS/IPP package of the F-35 is an entire generational leap beyond what the F-22 uses, and you have to build the aircraft around that.
Dogfighting has already been an incredibly rare thing for decades, and it's seen as being nonexistent in the future. Silly lies about the Vietnam airwar theater don't change that. And if you consider that, then it becomes a question of things like 'do we really need thrust vectoring'? 'Do we really need to extremely expensive engines'?
Even for people who complain about the cost, the F-22 would never have been affordable. It has needed enormous numbers of upgrades over the years owing in part to its limited mission profile, and the extremely dated avionics package it flew with. The engines are one of the most expensive parts of an aircraft, and, well, you're paying for two for every F-22.
One of the big reasons the "muh F-35 can't turn" shit is because unlike any other aircraft, the F-35 was basically shipped while it was still in development. The physical structure and design were laid down, populated with 'rudimentary' avionics, and sent off to begin live flying and training while the avionics were further developed. Stories like 'can't turn' were because the F-35 had immense control law limitations put on it until block 3F.
Previous aircraft were fully completed when they shipped, which meant your systems were 10+ years obsolete by the time the pilots got their hands on them.
We already have drones that survive 30, 40, even 50g's. They go by names like Sidewinder, Sparrow and Meteor.
Hey look, it's exactly the kind of person I was talking about: pseudo-intellectuals who don't know fuck-all but like to pretend they do.
Those "drones" you're talking about are single-use, extremely low-mass, and are powered by a fucking solid-fuel rocket and batteries. Coincidentally they're also unsophisticated, short-ranged, single-purpose designs.
Hey baby-rapist, would you like to explain to us why we don't just fire AIM-9s into combat from hundreds of miles away and let them fly themselves to the AOR to engage targets? Is that another riddle that you've solved, "hey why do you carry these on board this really big aircraft to bring them closer to battle"?
So you're alleging the problems of drone warfare have been solved? Since when, the AIM-7 days? Because an AIM-7 is, in your eyes, a 'drone'? Pack it up boys, Cato The Nobody pointed out we've had "drone warfare" since Vietnam!
You know what they also don't have? Wings that provide lift. These missiles have no use for wings. Aircraft do. Would you like to offer your brilliant engineering insights on how the concept of 'lift' is antiquated? Do you even know why we use wings?
You have, as usual, reversed cause and effect.
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You don't know the first fucking thing you're talking about. What is the maximum g-load of an F-15E with GBU-31s loaded, and why is it under the standard structural limitation of 9gs? You don't think they thought "hey it'd be nice to maintain the full envelope of performance even with weapons loaded"?
You think they just didn't have the 'willingness' to design a bomb that doesn't physically tear itself off the BRU rack?
Yeah sure, they just didn't have the "willingness". Nobody thought that maybe when your interdictor is g-limited from the fuel and weapons on board, that that could make the aircraft more vulnerable, and they should design it to withstand 50gs.
Good thing you're here to tell them to just design aircraft better. Shucks I guess all those rivets that I've personally seen popped out after an over-g were just because someone somewhere didn't want to design it better.
Which defense company do you work for, again?
The problem the US has is that it's opponents LIE about it's capabilities while the US has the resources to MEET those lies just look at the F-15, thanks to Soviet lies about the Migs capabilities, the US had 50 YEARS of uncontested air dominance.
Hah. I love that little piece of military history. They were so freaked out they created an aerial wunderwaffen only to have a defector give them one and they went "wait, that's it?"
The thing is, understanding the 'why' of military technology requires a broad knowledge of a lot of other capabilities in military technology, almost all of which is outside the scope of any normie's experience, but christ, even Elon fucking Musk was shitting on the F-35 last November and said we should replace it with drones.
You'd think the guy whose ventures involve a lot of electronic communications would understand the biggest problem with using drones in a hostile threat airspace, namely, electronic warfare (or even anti-satellite kinetic warfare) taking out the drone command signals. AI technology isn't advanced enough to operate in the power, size, and performance limits of a small drone, and a drone that just executes pre-existing commands is called a 'cruise missile' and we already have those.
The SATCOM link on the MQ-9 is incredibly fragile. Do you remember those videos of the Russian jets fucking around with them? Every time the jet flew over the radome, they dropped video link for a few seconds. The fighters were over the radome for a fraction of a second and even that was enough to completely blank the signal out and it needed to reacquire.
It's incredibly frustrating watching something that is truly obscure knowledge be commented on by every single dump-truck-driving redneck with an opinion, when one actually has that expertise and knowledge firsthand.
Also, if you wanted to make a drone with the capabilities of an F-35, it'd just be an F-35 with a pile of incredibly expensive hardware strapped into the cockpit that would lose link every time it inverted, it'd cost more than the F-35 does now, and it would lose every single aerial engagement because it would have a ridiculous signal delay between something happening, the pilot seeing it in his ground control station, the pilot responding, and the aircraft accepting that response. The speed of light is fast, but we can't even play video games in Europe without lag being a make-or-break factor in your performance.
PS: And to nip this one in the bud, the limiting factor of g-forces on aircraft is usually the weapons, not the squishy man in the cockpit. A drone fighter wouldn't be able to pull more gs than a normal fighter. For one, high-g maneuvers means you're dumping all your airspeed. That's what the feeling g-forces is, all that momentum basically being 'wasted'. And second, if we magically could "actually" build aircraft to higher g-tolerances, but for some reason we do not, we already would do so to avoid the very real damage high-g maneuvers already cause to aircraft. A human can survive a 10-g turn, but the aircraft cannot, so why would a drone? When the pilot over-gs the aircraft, he'll land back at the airfield completely healthy. It's the aircraft that's now all bent and fucked up.
On the off chance this post doesn't attract people with very strong opinions on esoteric defense technology you have zero chance of understanding without actually either working for Lockheed or being in the Air Force, allow me to trigger the normies with truths you don't like to hear:
The A-10 is shit and always has been. The gun was designed specifically to take out T-55 tanks, the most common tank in the USSR's arsenal when the specs were laid down. A decade later, by the time the A-10 was fully combat operational, the T-55s had been replaced by significantly up-armored T-62 and T-64s, which halved the range the A-10 needed for the gun to stand an equivalent chance of effectivity that it was projected to against the T-55. Due to the USSR's similar advances in SPAAG and SAM technology, and the A-10s total lack of effective countermeasures, its entire tank-busting role was reduced to simply firing off AGM-65s from 12 miles away and running away. This exact same mission is similarly accomplished with an AH-64 Apache, an MQ-1, and later the MQ-9, all armed with Hellfire missiles that performed better than the AGM-65s ever did.
There's a reason nobody thought it was a useful aircraft until it was used to simply shoot mud huts containing illiterate retards who didn't possess even one single air defense weapon. Which is like saying that the Hi-Point C9 is a fantastic handgun when your only targets are coma patients.
You know, you're right, there's just fewer lolberts so it kind of evens out.
Your average communist footsoldier may sincerely believe they have good intentions. And the entire reason communism takes root in societies is because they very often bring up extremely valid problems to use as a jumping-off point.
Lolberts don't have any good intentions. They genuinely don't. And they don't even have an ideal society they can describe the function of. Their problems with society are retarded, largely meaningless faggy problems like 'I am mad because I can't own a machine gun'.
- And that makes sense... because libertarianism is closest to the Robber-Barons era of the mid-1800s. And Communism literally was invented specifically as a counter to the Robber-Barons era of the mid-1800s. It wasn't hard to convince the manual-laboring proletariat that maybe they shouldn't be chained inside the factory.
Communists are delusional in that they all believe they'll be chairmen of the Party and be the ones directing society in a positive direction.
Lolberts are delusional in that they all believe they'll be the trillionaire industrialist machine-gunning their employees for not wanting to clean up a toxic waste spill with their bare hands.
In an ideal Communist society, you'll have totally free healthcare and free housing and free food. Sounds great, right? Yeah, it does, which is why it sweeps dumb people along.
In an ideal Libertarian society, you'll have a tollbooth you must pay before leaving your house in order to access the privately-owned road, but it won't matter because you can't access it anyway since the power company dumped a pile of radioactive waste on your driveway, but it's okay because when other people find out, they'll switch to the other power company that invested billions of dollars in a nuclear plant just to drive down prices in the local area, because of something something free market economics, so you shouldn't feel bad about being poisoned because a CEO may lose his job some day so it evens out.
Literally who the fuck does that sound great for?
Fucking Ayn Rand's ideal libertarian society in Atlas Shrugged literally required a perpetual energy machine and the belief that all industrialists are genuinely nice, altruistic, well-meaning people to function. And I'm pretty sure it never addressed where Galt's Gulch was getting their food.
This thread is literally just describing what anyone using Reddit figured out over a decade ago.
"Oof, big yikes, bless your heart sweetie, there's a lot to unpack here."
not the handful of influencers trying to keep reins on the movement
95% of the front page X posts on T_D all come from the same six fags, and all you have to do is search their name for AIPAC.
Here, I already did it for you in another post:
DC Draino: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Adc_draino+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Jack Posobiec: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Ajackposobiec+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Wall Street Apes: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Awallstreetapes+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Steven Crowder: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Ascrowder+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Patrick Bet-David: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=users&q=from%3Apatrickbetdavid+aipac
Only once from Tucker Carlson, and it was just a timecode in an interview: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Atuckercarlson+aipac
Catturd only twice, 6 years ago, but mentioned in passing: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Acatturd2+aipac&since=&until=&near=
LOTT (((unsurprising))): https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Alibsoftiktok+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Emerald Robinson: https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Aemeraldrobinson+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Amuse only once, and it sounds like he's crying that they didn't give more to Republicans: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Aamuse+aipac&since=&until=&near=
Between alllllll these accounts they have >MILLIONS< of posts, and I can count the number of times they've even mentioned the single most influential lobbying group on one hand.
The ones who are against Zionism and are championing Islam are also the remnants still holding onto Millennial's Judeo-Marxism progressive faggotry.
The thing is it's the Gen Zers who are rejecting woke who also are asking the JQ, and they aren't aligning with Muslims, because those are all the woke.
Although he's probably pretty close to the "I've left the left" precipice
He's been like that for a fucking decade though. It's an act of some sort but nobody's entirely sure which part of it is. Questioning faggotry might be the act, leaving the left might be the act, it's unclear.
Don't know much about Carville other than essentially being Skeletor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJEGUQt63gw
He's got a few comments like this over the years.
I grew disinterested in ConPro since it's just an endless stream of the most disgusting dregs of humanity schizoposting copy-pasted platitudes in every single comment and shrieking about conspiracy theories...
... and I am not a fan of "conspiracy theories". I think they are a tremendous waste of everybody's time. It honestly isn't even about whether or not they are correct, it's about what you will ever be able to prove, whether you ever will be believed, and whether anything will change.
If the government came out right now and released all their footage of them faking the moon landing, does it fucking matter at all? The average person's reaction will be 'Oh wow that's fucked-up.' and then they scroll to the next video on their ticky-tockers. Are you going to dig up Neil Armstrong's corpse and put it in jail? Does it change modern space technology which we can directly interact with?
That's a pretty broad term, but there's two kinds of conspiracies, there's real conspiracy theory, and there's SCHIZO conspiracy theory, but delineating them is very subjective.
Real conspiracies are boring. ActBlue/USAID/etc. are real conspiracies. They're also fucking boring. Machines moving some digital numbers around. The media collaborating on stories that are favorable to their biases. Pharmaceutical companies lobbying for immunity for a prototype vaccine that they've failed to bring to market, but they now have an opportunity to recoup investment on.
Schizo conspiracies are exciting. They involve antenna arrays that can shoot hurricanes around the world, space lasers exploding entire cities, mind-control rays directing mass shooters to their targets, etc.
If a conspiracy theory is exciting it's probably fucking stupid and wrong. Look at the 2020 election steal conspiracies.
Schizo conspiracies was that Dominion voting machines were beaming digital vote counts around the world to a server array in Frankfurt, then moved to Rome, where the votes were altered. White Hats in the US Army Intelligence Office went in to the server array to seize the unadulterated votes and had a shootout with the CIA. In an attempt to cover their tracks, a man in an RV was mind-controlled to blow up a bomb in Nashville on Christmas Day to damage AT&T infrastructure because all the stolen votes went through there. At the same time, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference at "The Four Seasons" landscaping company, because across the street was a crematorium where all the real ballots were burned.
Everything I wrote is 100% serious shit serious people seriously believed that I learned entirely from just reading the front page of T_D after the election.
You know what the 'real' conspiracy probably was? Activists, with a decade of experience doing this, used their access to voter roll information (ERIC) to request thousands of absentee ballots. They are able to use Board of Elections information to know when batches of absentee ballots are sent out to nursing homes and they show up to 'help them vote'. Then they shove all these completely anonymous ballots into a mailbox.
Anyone talking about Dominion machines flipping votes is retarded, because the votes would be guaranteed to fail a recount. Stuffing ballot boxes is a tactic as old as voting has existed and it would always pass a recount and look completely legitimate.
But collecting ballots from old people isn't exciting. Shootouts with the CIA is exciting. So people believed the latter. And still do to this day.
On top of it all, when you look at the type of person who believes the 'exciting' conspiracies, they're all fucking stupid people. They're like pig farmers and shit. That isn't to say farming pigs isn't worthwhile, but it is to say that a bunch of shit-kicking rednecks who have never seen high-explosives detonate outside of a screen have literally zero right to voice an opinion on whether or not Harrison Deal's Jeep 'looks like it blew up from a bomb'. I did my time in Afghanistan and saw what bombs do to vehicles, and that was no bomb.
That got really long but what I'm saying is that places like ConPro became way too accepting of 'Anyone who asks the JQ'.
The JQ shit is like that bell curve meme. On the left is the grugs 'ITZ DA JOOOOZ'. On the right is the intellectuals 'It is the jews.'
The grugs on the left side of the bell curve bring a ton of other fucking baggage with them and it's mostly insane conspiracy shit that just distracts everyone.
Just because the Aryan Brotherhood wears thunderbolts doesn't mean they're allies. Aryan Brotherhood is a disgusting prison gang of drug-dealing murderers and they should / would be gassed.
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Uh okay one final note, I legit believe that most of the 'exciting' conspiracies are intentionally seeded by the government as a way of keeping heavily-armed dissident anti-government White people pacified by making them so fucking paranoid they are incapable of functioning in a coherent manner.
Wow, could this guy have any worse of a voice? I've heard people criticize a performance as 'monotone' before but this takes the cake. Is he genuinely actually brain-damaged or retarded? What kind of simpleton just moans through all their lines never once altering their tone of timbre.
Yes but I can't name many. Bill Maher and James Carville come to mind. Thing is they're all old as fuck.
The problem is that to 99% of them, changes are not happening, it's all just made-up right-wing lies. They literally think Antifa is an actual fictional fabrication of the imagination, that not only are there not these disparate terror cells organized over the internet, but that even the acts of violence they committed never happened and are made-up. They think drag queens are just a funny thing from M.A.S.H. and faggotry is just two men having a perfectly normal 'straight' relationship where they court each other and date. They think abortions are just an item of last resort and are so traumatizing for the woman that they hate getting them.
The left had so much cultural control they built themselves a prison out of an echo chamber. By excising the right, the right was able to actually grow stronger, while the left just atrophied.
Zoomers were too young for the Tumblr shit. Millennials were the vanguard of progressivism.
Older Zoomers still are communists but it was younger ones who flipped the election... and gen alpha can't vote yet.
The average normie is going to find 'Democrat' inseparable from 'terrorist' very soon.
Arresting that dunecoon was brilliant. He was utterly indefensible and the case against him ironclad, but the psychos on the left got too high on their own supply and are now engaging in acts of overt violence to defend him. It was perfect bait.
At least one time they made an effort to introduce better grocery stores and they just kept eating dog shit food anyway.
It was written by a man of the magic underpants clan so who fucking knows.
Well there IS Ghislane Maxwlel.
When I saw this was from Alex Jones I assumed the victim was either jewish or black.
Okay, so he's not wrong.
"Work hard and you'll be successful" is stupid Boomer nonsense.
Being successful is a combination of:
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Working hard.
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Working smart.
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Who you know.
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Plain old fuckin' luck.
There is such a thing as "privilege" when it comes to success. Someone who comes from a wealthy family already has "who you know" covered, and having that financial jumping-off point makes things much easier when you don't have to worry about losing your house or skipping meals to make your business work.
Luck is also a huge component to it. I mean... this video you posted is from a middling channel on Youtube. They've been around 5 years and haven't even cracked 100k subscribers.
There's streamers who will grind their dicks off day and night trying to chase success and they never find it.
There's streamers who got just the right content in the right time and the algorithm finds them and they find meteoric success.
Dudes who got rich on Bitcoin did not work hard. They did not work smart. They didn't know anyone. They found success through 100% luck. People were buying pizzas for 20 BTC.
There is no recipe for success... but for most people, #1 and #2, work hard, but work smart, is how you'll find... maybe not fame and fortune, but at least you'll probably live comfortably.
The best part of the show was watching the battles and tactics and just about any of the stories about the ship itself 'as a character'.
Warping your aircraft carrier into the atmosphere of a planet to bypass a blockade and release your fighters while in free-fall, then warping back out before you hit the ground, might be one of the coolest fucking things I've ever seen.
It's always good when the actors and actresses themselves don't even know what the fuck the show was trying to communicate.
Kara finding her own body and them just being like 'OH SHE'S AN ANGEL NOW' was so retarded.
They don't even have real food deserts.
Actual food deserts do exist but you have to go out to like SUPER rural communities where the only grocery store is a Dollar General and the nearest proper grocer is at least an hour drive away. I lived in one. It sucked.
These nigs live in a major fucking city where they can just take a different bus to a Whole Foods.
I feel like you could edit out his voice and subtitles on that last line, and that smug look he has at the cut speaks for itself lmao
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And you base that on what?
EDIT: lmao that's what I thought.
This entire comment section is literally the meme. A bunch of know-nothings who can only cite video games and "articles" for everything they think they know.