Not The Onion, But May Challenge Even The Bee; Plus
Not a joke. Go ahead and run it through your search engine of choice:
- Spend $500 billion developing a stealth fighter - Engineer it to be as hard as possible to find - Lose one - Ask the public to help you find it
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts
#BREAKING: The US military is asking the public for help in locating a missing $80 million F-35 stealth fighter jet that disappeared over North Charleston, South Carolina. Officials have reported that there is no concrete evidence of a crash. The pilot has been found and transported to a hospital.
Hunt for Red October is one of my favorite movies (I love Sean Connery’s “Russian accent”) so this could be a nice reboot.
I hope the plane develops the ability to autonomously steal fuel from other craft and it wanders America’s skies forever. Airline passengers will catch glimpses of it from time to time as it swoops in, slakes its thirst from their fuel tanks, and then vanishes into the clouds.
Since we’re on the subject of weaponry and war … a quick roundup. This first item from the Army War College has been getting a fair amount of commentary over the past week:
Will Schryver
@imetatronink
A significant implication derives from the conclusions of this USAWC analysis: it confirms the maximalist estimations of Ukrainian losses as argued by discerning observers of this war. Three discrete Ukrainian armies have now been destroyed. There won't be a fourth.
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Will Schryver
@imetatronink
The US Army War College published a summary of what will apparently be multiple detailed papers on the "lessons from Ukraine". I have highlighted below two striking passages. TLDR: The US is not remotely capable of "large-scale combat operations". https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3240&context=parameters…
This is one reason why I’m cautious about Macgregor’s views of late regarding the risk of full scale war. If this is known at the War College level, then it’s known up the chain of command, too. My cautious view is that at some point the Russians will call the Neocon bluff by taking some direct action—shooting down NATO air assets after warnings, something of that sort.
Speaking of air assets, Andrei Martyanov, in his own style speaks today about Russian cruise missile capabilities:
Specifically, he disusses aircraft as weapons platforms, which explains why 1950s designs like the US B-52 and Russia’s Tu-95 ‘Bear’ are still in use and are still a formidable part of the nuclear triad. He then talks about the Russia Tu-160 and the range of missiles this bomber, and other Russian aircraft, can launch. This Wikipedia article provides interesting and scary details.
Seven months later? Who doubts now that the whole “Chinese spy balloon” was a deliberately ginned up intel hoax? The truth is slipped out long after the American public’s attention span has lapsed. Or while everyone is busy looking for the missing F-35 (yes, I am aware that this was public some time ago, still …):
7 months later the truth about the Chinese spy balloon admitted by highest ranking
General Mark Milley: "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – is that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon”
The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon
Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination...
Speaking of hoaxes …
Have you seen this or similar stories, that are being buried under Covid Hoax alarmism?
Doctors say they are finding it increasingly challenging to distinguish one from the other and only know that someone has ‘covid’ because they ‘tested’ for it…..probably with one of those very ‘reliable’ PCR tests.
Why would anyone take an experimental gene therapy injection for this? The common cold used to be a killer, for populations that hadn’t been previously exposed. Get sick and get over it. It’s still in the same family of respiratory viruses. The injection is the real threat:
Uh oh! Maybe that F-35 really did develop a stealth refueling ability! AI? :-)
War Monitor
@WarMonitors
Russia scrambled MiG-31 jet to intercept US plane over Barents sea — RIA
In the not-a-joke catwgory, Mercouris referred near the end of his rather long program today to an interview his partner-in-crime Alex Christoforou did with that genius, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister. After remarking to AC that the world is full of dictators and authoritarians (ahem…), among them of course Xi and Putin, it would be unthinkable to stop supporting Ukraine and allow the Russians to win since that would make the West look weak and only embolden…China! Mercouris, utterly gobsmacked by this preposterous and deluded notion, concludes that, by her lights, we have destroyed a country in order to show how strong we are and to deter any “dictator” from challenging our might. Of course the truth is that we’ve always had Russia in our crosshairs, but, a minor detail, as a result of this proxy war against it, it has not only become stronger both economically and militarily, but it has moved closer to China!! So, trying to impress China with our might has resulted in our diminished standing in the world not to mention our depleted arsenals. What a complete dunce is Baerbock and others of her misbegotten ilk.