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  1. 14 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

    Holy shit thanks for sending me down a rabbit hole looking up all the hardware I have never heard of. Which is most of it.

    I just happened to be driving through this past week.  All I could really see from the road as I was passing through were C-5s, the WB-57s, then a bunch of C-130s.  Caught a glimpse of some P-3s and the museum row with one offs like the YC-14, etc.  

    Man, I love Tucson though.  Ok, that's my digression for the morning.  

     

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  2. 13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    We have almost a thousand F-16s sitting in the high desert, as an example, and it's very dry.  They will never be used again, except for occasional parts or to replace the occasional Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve F-16s that are lost or retired for one reason or another.  They are in far better shape than aircraft going through the shitshow of Russian aircraft storage where they go well below freezing in winter and bake in the summer, and are stripped for blackmarket parts. Most still have plenty of life in them, they were simply replaced by newer aircraft or retired as the military shrank.

    We also have 3,600 Abrams tanks that are sitting in storage, many of which were retired, again, due to a shrinking or changing military, or newer models.

     We purchased over 160,000 Humvees, and I'm sure there's a few tens of thousands in storage (although they may not be in the best of shape, *ahem* a lot of us treated them like shit). We probably have a few thousand Bradleys in storage, probably some Strykers in storage.  A whole lot of M113s (although those are very old).  

    Probably have a few hundred Black Hawks in storage as well.

    We actually take care of our stuff, unlike the Russians.

    https://www.amarcexperience.com/ui/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205&Itemid=274

     

    More like 343.  

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  3. 20 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:


    They have absolutely great videos too. Here’s a personal fave:

     

     

     

    Lol.  Wrong WA guitar shop.  In any case, drop by Emerald City.  They have great top shelf stuff, but as mentioned, they also have plenty for mere mortals to peruse. 

     

  4. Drones are very cheap, comparatively. I would expect a decent chunk of money to go into drone development and production. [mention=1385]CHIEF[/mention] If I'm the Europeans, I would put my money on indigenous production first. Only what I couldn't produce, or couldn't produce fast enough, would I order from the Americans.

    Those Americans were pretty good partners for a long while. About 80 years. Then they went crazy and became…unreliable.
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  5. 3 hours ago, Bevo said:

    Trump Says US Must Send More Weapons to Ukraine, Days After Ordering Pause in Deliveries

     

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    Associated Press  By Illia Novikov and Aamer Madhani 

    Published July 08, 2025 at 6:13am ET

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv.

    The comments by Trump appeared to be an abrupt change in posture after the Pentagon announced last week that it would hold back delivering to Ukraine some air defense missiles, precision-guided artillery and other weapons because of what U.S. officials said were concerns that stockpiles have declined too much.

    “We have to," Trump said. ”They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now. We’re going to send some more weapons — defensive weapons primarily."

    The pause had come at a difficult moment for Ukraine, which has faced increasing — and more complex — air barrages from Russia during the more than three-year-long war. Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least 11 civilians and injured more than 80 others, including seven children, officials said Monday.

    The US turnaround on weapons for Ukraine 

    The move last week to abruptly pause shipments of Patriot missiles, precision-guided GMLRS, Hellfire missiles and Howitzer rounds and weaponry took Ukrainian officials and other allies by surprise.

    The Pentagon affirmed late Monday that at Trump's direction, it would resume weapons shipments to Ukraine “to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure a lasting peace and ensure the killing stops." Still, spokesman Sean Parnell added that its framework for Trump to evaluate military shipments worldwide continues as part of “America First” defense priorities.

    Trump, speaking at the start of a dinner he was hosting for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, vented his growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump has struggled to find a resolution to the war in Ukraine but maintains he’s determined to quickly conclude a conflict that he had promised as candidate to end of Day One of his second term.

    He has threatened, but held off on, imposing new sanctions against Russia's oil industry to try to prod Putin into peace talks.

    Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said last week that Trump has given him the go-ahead to push forward with a bill he's co-sponsoring that calls, in part, for a 500% tariff on goods imported from countries that continue to buy Russian oil. The move would have huge ramifications for China and India, two economic behemoths that buy Russian oil.

    “I’m not happy with President Putin at all," Trump said Monday.

    Russia's transport minister is found dead 

    Separately, Russia’s transport minister was found dead in what authorities said was an apparent suicide — news that broke hours after the Kremlin announced he had been dismissed by Putin.

    The firing of Roman Starovoit followed a weekend of travel chaos — airports grounded hundreds of flights due to the threat of drone attacks from Ukraine. Russian officials did not give a reason for his dismissal.

    Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed at airports in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but Russian commentators said the air traffic disruptions have become customary amid frequent Ukrainian drone raids and were unlikely to have triggered his dismissal.

    Starovoit, 53, served as Russia’s transport minister since May 2024. Russian media have reported that his dismissal could have been linked to an investigation into the embezzlement of state funds allocated for building fortifications in the Kursk region, where he served as governor before being appointed transportation minister.

    The alleged embezzlement has been cited as one of the reasons for deficiencies in Russia’s defensive lines that failed to stem a surprise Ukrainian incursion in the region launched in August 2024.

    Russia fired more than 100 drones at civilian areas of Ukraine overnight, authorities said.

    Russia recently has intensified its airstrikes on civilian areas. In the past week, Russia launched some 1,270 drones, 39 missiles and almost 1,000 powerful glide bombs at Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday.

    Russia’s bigger army also is trying hard to break through at some points along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620 miles) front line, where Ukrainian forces are severely stretched.

    Ukraine calls for more military aid 

    The strain of keeping Russia’s invasion at bay, the lack of progress in direct peace talks and last week’s halt of some promised U.S. weapons shipments have compelled Ukraine to seek more military help from the U.S. and Europe.

    White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Monday that the pause in weapons to Ukraine came as part of a “standard review of all weapons and all aid” that the U.S. “is providing all countries and all regions around the world. Not just Ukraine.”

    Leavitt said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the global review to ensure that “everything that’s going out the door aligns with America’s interests.”

    Zelenskyy says Ukraine has signed deals with European allies and a leading U.S. defense company to step up drone production, ensuring Kyiv receives “hundreds of thousands” more this year.

    “Air defense is the main thing for protecting life,” Zelenskyy wrote Monday on Telegram.

    That includes developing and manufacturing interceptor drones that can stop Russia’s long-range Shahed drones, he said.

    Extensive use of drones also has helped Ukraine compensate for its troop shortages on the front line.

    One person was killed in the southern city of Odesa, another person was killed and 71 were injured in northeastern Kharkiv, and falling drone debris caused damage in two districts of Kyiv, the capital, during nighttime drone attacks, Ukrainian authorities said.

    Russian short-range drones also killed two people and injured two others in the northern Sumy region, officials said. Sumy is one of the places where Russia has concentrated large numbers of troops.

    Also, nine people were injured and seven killed in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, regional head Vadym Filashkin said.

    More Russian long-range drone strikes Monday targeted military mobilization centers for the third time in five days, in an apparent attempt to disrupt recruitment, Ukraine’s Army Ground Forces command said.

    Regional officials in Kharkiv and southern Zaporizhzhia said at least 17 people were injured.

    Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that its troops shot down 91 Ukrainian drones in 13 Russian regions overnight, as well as over the Black Sea and the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

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    Associated Press writer Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.

    Story Continues

    And Tuesday he'll say something else, and Wednesday yet something different from both Monday and Tuesday.  

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  6. 13 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

    My 88 yr old uncle showed up today at our annual family reunion in this Crosley. He taught auto body at the local community college for 30 years and was very active in the Wichita hot rod scene. 
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    Clean lines.  So cool!

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  7. 2 hours ago, Goredho said:

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    This is a sub $500 guitar (used), nothing to envy, but it’s a solid mahogany/spruce dread that sounds and plays really good.

    It’s gonna replace my cheap, old black Takamine that was my only guitar for a long time while kids were little.  The one I put them to bed with.  My daughter asked if she could have it and I’m giving it to her.

    Nothing you've said here disputes my original premises.  

    Consistency is also clutch.  We can always count on you for a good bump.  Like a a horse dealer.  

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  8. 23 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    Outstanding cars!   👆

    4th of July is my favorite, and this neighborhood parade is a big reason why.  

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  9. I’m in Denver this weekend for family reasons and fucked up and stopped at guitar store.  A used Guild D-140 that spoke to me is coming home.  Seriously good guitar for what I paid for it.
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    Hahaha.

    Man, you are the BEST at this thread! And life, apparently.
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  10. Getting an Austin Powers vibe here.  

    No shit. Was she deaf? How do you lack the situational awareness to know that you are in the vicinity of a bulldozer and should get the fuck away from the bulldozer? Was she dead asleep on the beach?
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  11.  
    The Defense Department held up a shipment of U.S. weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles. But an analysis by senior military officers found that the aid package would not jeopardize the American military’s own ammunition supplies, according to three U.S. officials.
    The move to halt the weapons shipment blindsided the State Department, members of Congress, officials in Kyiv and European allies, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.
     
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/hegseth-halted-weapons-ukraine-military-analysis-aid-wouldnt-jeopardiz-rcna216790

    Hegseth doing his masters bidding.

    This will be the excuse tfg will use and his idiot minions will parrot it. Book it.
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