The one photo seemed to be a sample that was photoshopped but that would be awesome if people followed the instructions. There was a lady who had posted that there's a traffic cam that was set up a while back, people used to stop and ham it up. Someone apparently flew a drone to it with a sign stating garage/storage space for sale and had a phone number to call. The number was the Russian Embassy.
Germany, France, and now CANADA have closed off their airspace to Russian planes. Will the US be next? I wouldn't think there are many but still.
Should be entertaining although all it will demonstrate is how quickly Jones can manufacture "facts" on the fly.
In a sign of the times, on ready.gov there are sections for getting ready for all kinds of emergencies. The nuclear page now has an updated page date of 2/25/22.
The short answer is yes. The F35 is an amazing aircraft that has capabilities I’m not fully familiar with, because they exceed my need to know. As I understand it, not even the pilots who fly them know everything they can do, because some of the features are strategic and controlled remotely (in other words, the pilots fly to a certain area and hold, and some other dude in DC causes the desired effect). That’s why I roll my eyes every time the usual suspects on here come on to lambast the program and demand its cancellation. Whether they know it or not (they probably don’t), they are parroting Russian and Chinese talking points. Our enemies have no answer for what these aircraft can do, and they are terrified of it. The only countermeasure they have is to get our civil population to believe they are too expensive, unnecessary, won’t work, or are too provocative.
Chechnya has joined the fight . . . on the side of the Russians. They are very proud that, so far, they have had no runny noses. Not sure how that translates to combat capabilities. I'm sure Zelensky is thinking, "My troops have many runny noses. Some of them are sneezing. The Chechnyans must be very powerful!" Chechen leader, a close Putin ally, says his forces have deployed to Ukraine
As a point of information, Israel is the first and so far only country to use the F-35 in combat. The Israelis have shot down a number of Syrian jets without losing a single plane either to other aircraft or to surface to air missiles. Keep in mind that the Syrians use Russian fighters and that Syria is protected by state of the art Russian S-400 air defense systems. F-35 stealth fighter sees first combat, in Israeli operation Israel just showed that the F-35 can fight. So what’s next? Unanswered Israeli Air Strikes Against Syria Raise S-400 Questions - Breaking Defense
The F-35A Fighter Is the Most Dominant and Lethal Multi-Role Weapons System in the World: Now Is the Time to Ramp Up Production This assessment is based on interviews with 30 F-35A combat pilots—21 of whom are also highly experienced former fourth-generation fighter pilots—as well as senior operations and maintenance leaders at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in Utah, the Air Force’s first operational F-35A location. A breakdown of the experience level of the pilots interviewed for this Backgrounder can be found in Appendix Table 1.
They ran a piece up here a few years ago about old bomb shelter, and explaining how older YMCAs & others still had those now faded yellow nuclear shelter signs. They also featured cool old backyard ones that were just left with stuff from the 50s-60s still in them when older owners died, etc - almost like time capsules. Russia, China, NK to an extent...maybe time to repaint those signs and start teaching folks what our parents/grandparents learned to prepare, start releasing where to go, etc. Today's homes are built waaaaaay worse than the "older homes" and not everyone has a basement. Yeah yeah no one panic yet. But to be honest it would be a bigger panic to have Putin decide to say screw it, push the proverbial button, and then you have the majority of the US populace trying to figure out what to do. Of course one hopes the US has the capability to shoot down anything sent up so that's a plus. All of a sudden all that defensive spending is looking like a good plan, huh?
Let's just say all the good leaders of Chechnya either died in their war against Russia or were imprisoned. Kadyrov is a thug and puppet for Putin. Chechens from years past would be rolling in their graves seeing what he did to their country. Chechens are a proud people, fierce warriors, and now they are stooges for the Russians. Sure Russia allowed them to progress economically under Kadryrov, but that's only after being responsible for destroying that country from the wars.
That’s only a scratch on the surface. As you might understand, we didn’t give Israel all of the features.
@tilly can we merge the romney/biden/putin war threads since they have morphed into the same conversation?
What I'll also add about the F-35A aircraft is one of the most highly advanced fighter jets that relies heavily on electronics and programable information. The bigger issue now is maintenance, replacement parts and chips.
I don't think the the Israeli F-35s have all the bells and whistles that the American versions have either.
As Khrushchev pointed out all those years ago regarding an all out nuclear war: "The survivors will envy the dead". Ugly does not even begin to describe how that would be for the world. Let's hope like hell it does not go there.
