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2007-07-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-06 12:06|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Very impressive!

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-06 13:09|| 2007-07-06 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 they are flares or whatever they are called as a self defense measure while taking off

Posted by sinse 2007-07-06 13:30|| 2007-07-06 13:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn bureaucratic fences!

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-06 14:15|| 2007-07-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Read the article.

The illustration is just a stock Rantburg graphic.

The article is quite good.

DanNY

Posted by DanNY 2007-07-06 14:15|| 2007-07-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Great article.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2007-07-06 14:33|| 2007-07-06 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 His suggestions sound good to me, but Petraeus and above are the guys he needs to convince to change the status quo. I wonder if he took it up the chain, got nowhere, and decided to go public.

Posted by PBMcL 2007-07-06 17:31|| 2007-07-06 17:31|| Front Page Top

#7 IIUC, the Air Force still tends to be on a 24 hr cycle to generate air tasking orders. This USAF pilot is arguing for an approach closer to the Army's tactical use of air assets.

But I'm sure we have some RBers with more first hand knowledge on the topic.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-06 18:13|| 2007-07-06 18:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd ask my (new Lt. Col.) brother. But he's kind of busy at the moment. He doesn't do much tactical flying, though. B-1s aren't made for that.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-07-06 18:56|| 2007-07-06 18:56|| Front Page Top

#9 B-1s aren't made for that.

But JDAMS are.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-06 19:53|| 2007-07-06 19:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Congratulations to Lt. Colonel Jablow! And how wonderful he's too busy to be asked -- hopefully we'll get to read about the results of his handiwork here at Rantburg. :-D

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-06 20:17|| 2007-07-06 20:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Probably not, TW. I doubt that he'll want to talk about much, and I doubt he'll be allowed to talk about much.

He's a little burned out on the war, you know; he hopes to do something to build rather than to destroy. I guess he has a little of Gail Halvorsen in him.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-07-06 23:51|| 2007-07-06 23:51|| Front Page Top

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