Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Kyiv Post"
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@B.D.E. Yup, though I would argue there is no such thing as an expert. To support your statement, he incorrectly attributed. D/SEAD capabilities of Block 50 F-16CM+ with F-16AM MLU Vipers from the MSIP partner nations in Europe.
This is a critical set of details with strategic implications for the discussion, because those F-16AM MLU birds don't have the D/SEAD systems or weapons interface.
F-16AM MLU program did add most of the A2A capes with AIFF, AIM-120C5 and C7, newer Radar, color MFDs, GPS, and other systems to support NATO Air Policing and Intercept missions, but to my knowledge, they are not HARM Targeting System Pod capable.
This is an important distinction for obvious reasons.
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@davedevonlad7402 Yes, we were involved with the weapons and systems capabilities expansion on the F-16 CTF at Edwards, so it's something I've tracked in great detail. Most of the information isn't well-known or even understood by aviation geeks, let alone interested viewers.
Short story is there are big differences between an F-16AM MLU and a late Block CM model Viper that has gone through CCIP 1 & 2. Most of it isn't OSINT.
F-16AM is highly-capable in the Air-to-Air role though. Su-30 & Su-35 have much larger PESA Radars that should give earlier detection and tracking, and they fly faster/higher profiles with pretty long stick BVRAAMs that would make life hard for any Viper, minus Block 70.
If coordinated with SAMBushes, the F-16AM would be more survivable and lethal, but it really lacks the anti-SAM site capabilities that the US F-16CM+ Vipers have with HARM & HTS.
It might increase the sortie rates for launching VLO cruise missiles though if they configure F-16AMs for that, as they have done to the Su-24M.
They have also configured MiG-29s to launch HARMs, so maybe there is work being done to at least rig F-16AMs to launch it as well. The biggest missing pieces are the HTS and training for D/SEAD, which is extremely difficult for a single seat fighter.
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@karlschmied6218 Do you want to change your life and outlook for the better? Read a book about Trump pre-2016, or anything dispassionate from people who actually worked in the WH around him. He brings in people that disagree on many things and asks for them to "Hit me with it straight." especially if it's uncomfortable.
All Presidents and famous leaders have had a cultivated and crafted public image, and their real demeanor left for private.
Obama is an absentee lazy guy who felt entitled, too above the job, simply couldn't be bothered with most of WH affairs. Didn't consult with Dems in Congress on much of anything, was hard to reach, didn't give inner city black leaders the time of day. He harnessed the desire of the Nation to put a cap on healing of any residual racial tension for political gain, then tore open the old wounds with agitation and vengeance.
George W. Bush is a crack-up who is a social butterfly, loves getting people together to stir up conversations and debate. He's probably the most well-read US President of the last 100 years, very sharp, former F-102A pilot, used to party a lot including booze and cocaine. In public, he sounds like a slow, rural Texan and a clumsy public speaker. He said specifically he didn't want to come off like a know-it-all like Newt Gingrich and academics, because it alienates voters.
Clinton will literally beeline straight for your wife in front of you. He grew up in a big buick dealership family who adopted him after his mom married into them. Grandpa Clinton taught him and drilled him on memory training skills.
He had a convertible Buick at age 16 in Arkansas and got used to women chasing him until it was boring, then got into edgier behavior. Huge drug abuser to include a lot of pot and cocaine, overdosed after losing reelection as Governor in 1980.
George H.W. Bush was very calculated, a carpetbagger from CT, Bonesman at Yale. Moved to Texas to work with guys in the oil business as part of his CIA cover after the war. He was still in US Navy service until 1955, even though he got out Sept 1945. He went into the oil industry in Texas and went quickly from salesman to CEO of his own oil drilling company. He also liked to sound like a Texan, but was very calculated behind the scenes, very disciplined. He was the last US President with a foreign policy focus.
Find people you dislike politically, and read a wide range of books on them. It will expand your thoughts and point of view greatly.
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