F-35 News. Goure stumbled on the solution while trying to refute Farley.

Daniel Goure attempted to refute an article by Robert Farley (read Farley's article here) and while doing so stumbled onto the solution to the terribly overpriced, under-performing F-35.  Read the article here, but this is the answer....

The line is gone, the tooling is gone and the workforce is gone. In the current environment, the first new F-22 couldn’t come off the line for at least ten years, if ever. Might as well wait for a sixth-generation fighter to emerge.

We have the time to start the 6th gen fighter now.

We can accelerate its development, but this time do it right.  No joint program trying to take one air frame and do everything but simply share avionics...you know the Sweetman idea.

Like Farley said.  We have alternatives.  They won't be perfect solutions but it can be done.  The first thing that has to happen is that some brave soul has to have the courage to say enough is enough, and that its time to take our medicine.

The world is burning news. IDF information warfare in full swing.

Note:  The below graphics are from the IDF FaceBook page.  They also have a blog (here) that is doing a pretty good job of putting out their side of the story.  This is information warfare at its finest.

The world is burning news. Christians are being persecuted and its barely noticed.

via CNN

On Friday, the al Qaeda splinter group issued an ultimatum to Iraqi Christians living in Mosul -- by Saturday at noon (5 a.m. ET), they must convert to Islam, pay a fine or face "death by the sword."
A total of 52 Christian families left the city of Mosul early Saturday morning, with an armed group prohibiting some of them from taking anything but the clothes on their backs.
"They told us, 'You to leave all of your money, gold, jewelry and go out with only the clothes on you,'" Wadie Salim told CNN.

Read the entire story here.

Convert or die by the sword.

Just wow.  Yet we're suppose to be outraged and focused in on the Israeli/Hamas conflict?

IT'S A SIDESHOW! 

F-35 News. Norwegian model drag chute illustrations.

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The Malaysian Airliner shootdown just became interesting.

via The Aviationist.

Iranian defense expert Babak Taghvaee believes the mistake was caused by the fact the Malaysian Boeing 777 was escorted over eastern Ukraine. Taghvaee is always very well informed and an extremely reliable source. Therefore, after he provided some details about this activity of the Ukrainian Air Force on ACIG forum thread about the war in Ukraine, we contacted him for some more insight.

I usually don't post from the Aviationist website.  Too many "watch this breathtaking"..or "unbelievable" ... or "intense" posts of vids that honestly irk the hell outta me.

This is different though.

Read the whole thing and while (in my opinion) he breaks down into the twisted double speak of conspiracy theorist in his post, the outlines are clear.

There is alot more to this story than we're being told and I am getting the strong suspicion that we're being spun.  I'm not saying that this isn't a tragedy of enormous proportions....but I am saying that there is a reason why those missiles were launched.  

31st MEU Mechanized Raid (AAV) B-roll by Lance Cpl. Alexander N. Pool