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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. More than a few countries took note, and quite a few intelligence staffs are working OT to assess if their own facilities are safe. Yes, there is some value in the infomercial approach.
  2. I’m sure the order for more was processed the instant these dumplings left the depot.
  3. The stated bomb load of a B-2 is 40k lbs so either CNN is wrong or we’ve been sandbagging what it can carry.
  4. Spoke to a former Herc driver and JTAC about why the B2 has to drop the MOP, and why they couldn’t just load it in the back of an Israeli C-130. It’s an energy question. The C-130 can only haul a load that heavy into the mid 20’s and would have to slow to roughly 130 knots to dump it out of the back. This robs the weapon of speed and altitude to convert into the energy required to penetrate deeply as a bunker buster before it explodes after coming to a stop. The B2 can drop it from much higher and at 3 times the speed. Also, the control surfaces on the bomb deflect in an all or nothing manner. No small corrections from the fins. Therefore, the higher speed means less energy is robbed from the bomb as it course corrects on the way to its target.
  5. That is the world’s fattest Amy.
  6. The slats can be extended with the flaps retracted. You can’t take off that way, but maybe you could possibly retract them that way on a 787. The bus has an auto retract feature on takeoff in Flaps 1+S ( Flaps 1+ slats). Not sure what the 787 does.
  7. You can take it to the bank that the Iranians would be touting pictures of the wreckage of they had shot down an Adir.
  8. Personally, I give us one chance in three.
  9. The pagers tended to be in a pocket at crotch level so there’ll be very limited goat ravaging for some time to come.
  10. They only have 1000ish ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel. 850 now, and that’s not factoring losses to stored munitions and missiles on launchers to Israeli air strikes. They’re probably not far from bumping up against whatever they consider to be an adequate strategic reserve.
  11. Doesn’t mean his choice of tactics were wrong in that instance. Just his choice of employer.
  12. No chance for a flap misstep with 10 different detents. Gracious.
  13. “If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.” -The Operative I can only imagine that the Hamas fighters weren’t as as precisely located as the bedroom of an Iranian military leader. They’re in this or under this building is likely the best targeting information they had in a much more fluid situation. Hamas’ habit of placing their infrastructure and bases under civilian sites and hospitals makes rooting them out problematic. Thats not excusing the destruction of whole city blocks, but perhaps the reasoning behind their choice of munitions and targeting.
  14. Don’t mess with the Zohan.
  15. The methodical nature has been something to behold. They’ve largely eliminated Iran’s neighboring proxies and or prevented them from responding, and now they’ve started on the main course. One wonders if the IAF’s destruction of the Iranian air defense networks and missiles was a warning shot, or merely the first blow followed by a pause to collect itself for the next mission.
  16. It could if the startle factor precluded their raising the gear as the plane leveled off and power reduced drastically. Or EGPWS procedures could have made that a non factor. Gear and flaps generally stay in the selected position for that and Windshear escape procedures until out of the situation. That’s my problem with that theory. It’s hard to see the RAT. It appears to be down, but it’s not hard to hear it, and it sounds like it’s deployed as the plane flies past.
  17. Some of our 787 pilots have suggested that the altitude window controlling the flight directors might have been accidentally been set close to field elevation not unlike the Emirates 777 that buzzed Dubai at 50 feet and 300 knots. There’s a fleet bulletin out about this issue. Basically, the aircraft will settle at the selected altitude (at or just above field elevation) and selected speed (V2..single engine safety speed) with the engines retarding to maintain speed and altitude and kinda mush back in if the engine response isn’t quick enough.
  18. We may step in directly, or, they may go the Top Gun Maverick route and keep dropping the heaviest penetrators they can carry until the hole is deep enough to do the trick. Destroying the surface structures and any entrances and exits to the underground facilities may suffice for now. I think the initial denials were to stave off any immediate retaliatory attacks on US assets while the Iranian military still had first world military means to do so, but it’s clear as day we’ve been neck deep in this, and there’s not a chance that two surprise drone attacks on strategic targets in separate countries using the same tactics were developed independently. Either way, regardless of your politics, heads up and eyes open for the foreseeable future.
  19. The IAF is able to operate in Iranian airspace with impunity. The issue is payload. The largest US non nuclear bunker buster weighs 30k pounds. That requires a strategic bomber, and the IAF doesn’t have any.
  20. The world will know if they used nukes. However, short of actually using those weapons, it’s a matter of logistics. The IAF does not possess the kind of aircraft that can heft the kind of bunker buster needed to penetrate those hardened underground targets.
  21. You can take it to the bank that B-2 Spirits were involved if they took out the hardened underground nuclear facilities. Israel doesn’t have the weapons platforms to deliver those kind of bunker busters.
  22. Depends on the plane. The Airbus give you a configuration warning if the flaps are not in takeoff configuration or if they’re not in a configuration matching the flight management computer. It doesn’t not, however, care if that is the incorrect flap setting for the takeoff as long as it’s in one of the valid positions and matches the computer data. Similarly, short of triggering the alpha lock I mentioned earlier it doesn’t care if you select the wrong level of flap retraction either. Boeing might be the same.
  23. The Bus has something called alpha lock that prevents flap retraction in low energy or high angle of attack situations. I don’t know if the 787 has a feature like that. The 777 off Maui involved selecting one extra notch of flaps up over the intended setting, the quick rush to select the correct setting, an EGPWS warning and an over G in recovery.
  24. Could have been dust. Then again, there’s some indication the RAT was out, but that’s based on some grainy pictures and the sound as it went by. Inadvertently raising flaps instead of the gear would explain the sudden sink. They may have gone straight into the their EGPWS escape procedure which generally doesn’t have the crew change the gear or flap position. That might explain the gear still being down. Boeing and RR probably already have a good idea what happened unless it was FOD, electrical failure or fuel contamination.
  25. Inadvertent flap retraction nearly downed a UAL 777 out of Maui last year.
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