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Yeah I’m just talking about the plane, I did not imply or mean to imply it was the same thing. “One” not “this one”.

Congress has tried to shutdown the A-10 program multiple times due to the fact that it would not fair well in peer, let alone near peer contested airspace, was trying to discuss with fellow airplane enthusiasts since both these planes were taken down by Iran, or mechanical failures.

Yeah I did not imply, or mean to imply it was this example specifically, I was discussing A-10 program as it has been attempted to be shut down numerous times, I thought fellow aircraft enthusiasts would be interested.

fuck.

Looks like one was confirmed to be an A-10 Warthog? No wonder they were trying to stop funding for those for like… Forever…

Not a true expert, but nothing in those photos says f35 to me…

If you aren’t free to oppress someone, are you truly free? (/s)

I think you’re agreeing with me? I’m not sure, but that was the point I was trying to make - we need each other for different reasons.

I don’t know what Iran expected when they spent the last several years actively arming Russia, I wonder how differently the war would have gone without Shaheds terrorizing Ukrainian infrastructure and civilians…

Iran has shown that the United States needs NATO, and NATO needs the United States, more than ever. If Iranian Shaheeds and their manpeds / S300s are hitting US fighters and sneaking past defenses, who knows what more advanced or just sheer high scale weaponry could do, air superiority does not feel guaranteed.

A near peer (Russia) conflict would be ugly on a scale not seen since WWI, a true peer (China) conflict would unleash horrors we cannot imagine. We will all need each other, as NATO is a significant deterrent factor, which could actually save the lives of millions through deterrence, or shift the balance of warfare through increase manufacturing and safe zone output.

things like this give me hope for the future, if we can come together and preserve our cultural legacy like this - what else can we come together and do?

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I think this is good, right? Feels like the first time the supreme court has done something I agree with in a while…