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Thursday updates

| January 25, 2024 | 29 Comments
Thursday updates

Let’s talk about electric cars a little. Me, I like ’em in theory. No exhaust, low maintenance, in theory they can be wonderful. Except… “If somebody looked at me and said, Mr. Semel, you are going to love this car but in about 7,000 miles you will have to pay 1,400 or 1,500 dollars to […]

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Expensive FOD

| January 23, 2024 | 49 Comments
Expensive FOD

According to the Air Force Times,  mechanics working on an F-35 last year misplaced a flashlight while working on an engine. The item — a handheld flashlight — was sucked into the engine’s air intake during a maintenance ground run on the night of March 15, Air & Space Forces Magazine first reported. The aircraft […]

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American Air Force team allegedly assisted Israel with targets

| January 16, 2024 | 12 Comments
American Air Force team allegedly assisted Israel with targets

The US was reported to have flown surveillance drones over Gaza as an effort to assist Israel with hostage recovery. However, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed the possibility that a US Air Force team also assisted the Israelis with targets. The deployment guidelines provided to Air Force intelligence teams caught Lawrence Cline’s attention. […]

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Wednesday Service shorts

| December 27, 2023 | 75 Comments
Wednesday Service shorts

Been an interesting day for snippets of info from various services.  Let’s open up with the Navy: Yemen’s Houthis unleashed a new onslaught of anti-ship and land attack weaponry today around the southern end of the Red Sea. U.S. Central Command says the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) and F/A-18 Super Hornets from […]

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USAF to court martial another general for sex assault

| December 20, 2023 | 48 Comments
USAF to court martial another general for sex assault

The Air Force is, for the second time in three years, sending a general officer to a court martial. This time it’s Major General Phillip Stewart. He’s going up on a long list of charges, even one of which would be considered career ending if not worthy of Leavenworth. Sounds like the general was living […]

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What’s Israel doing right?

| December 19, 2023 | 26 Comments
What’s Israel doing right?

We have talked before about the availability of flying F-35s in the US inventory.  Here is a study from the Congressional Budget Office giving the raw numbers on F-35s. Cutting to the chase, our average availability is around 40-50% percent, so figure over 50% of the fleet is unavailable for missions at any point in […]

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Bob Pardo, creator of the Pardo Push, dead at 89

| December 18, 2023 | 21 Comments
Bob Pardo, creator of the Pardo Push, dead at 89

LTC (ret., presumably) Bob Pardo, a Silver-star winning Phantom pilot who might be described at “unconventional”, died December 5. On March 10, 1967, Pardo and weapons officer 1st Lt. Steve Wayne were on a bombing run against an enemy steel mill north of Hanoi in North Vietnam territory in an F-4C Phantom. The pair were […]

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Errant CoC gets hit

| December 13, 2023 | 27 Comments
Errant CoC gets hit

Remember an Air Force E-3 name of Jack Teixeira? Here’s a reminder. Aw1Ed and thebesig both wrote about him in April. Teixeira joined the Massachusetts Air National Guard in September 2019, according to federal court filings. He was granted Top Secret security clearance in 2021, according to an affidavit filed by an FBI special agent. […]

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