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Im betting he doesnt show.

I actually hope he does. I would much rather they were actually talking and trying to work out our differences.
 
So probably OO buck?

Saw a pod cast on shotgun gauges past and present. There was also segments on ways hunters hunted waterfowl in America's frontier years and on loads and mention of reloading. Particularly the availability and using flechettes vs typical round shot.

My thinking: these drones must be legal game.

1. No nation(s) / government(s) or individual(s) are admitting ownership or responsibility.

2. These drones are in the Atlantic waterfowl flyway. Or perhaps in range or air space of a local trap or skeet club.

I'm thinking punk gun or howitzer, loaded with flechettes.

Perhaps a few discreet typical trophy photos. To go public with as "insurance" ....just in case.
 
That's funny. FYI, these things are the size of a small car.
I heard the Gov. say they may be airplanes, not a chance, in the dark they would have to be IFR flight rules and IFR rules dont allow zipping around in multiple directions. Maybe military, but if they are not ours, we are indeed in trouble.
 
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Every light in the sky is now a drone, even in our sleepy little town on the gulf coast people claim they se drones flying around their house every night! This will get out of hand pretty soon if someone doesn’t come clean on these things.
We are sandwiched between 2 military bases , Kessler AFB to the west and Pensacola NAS to the east.

I agree with @Ridge Runner , a couple of 105s loaded with beehives should do the trick or the punt gun can be the new home defense weapon.
 
A few days ago the well known military expert Elon Musk opined that the F-35 was "obsolete" due to drones. Yesterday and today several papers are running with a story that Trump will cancel the program. Lockheed stock is down nearly 2% this morning and the rest of defense will also take a hit. The F-35 is in full rate production and is being purchased by several partner nations including Israel and most of NATO. There is not another fighter that can survive in the air against it unless perhaps a F-22. To date there are no operational fighter or fighter bomber drones. To cancel the program at this stage would be folly of an unimaginable scale on the belief that we can someday field a drone that can act as a fighter aircraft or fighter bomber. Meanwhile both China and Russia are fielding their first Gen 5 fighters which will outclass both the F-15 and F-16. Madness if true.

One of my worries about DOGE is its inability to actually affect structural change in any meaningful way or to touch the 3/4's of the budget dedicated to entitlement. Everyone inevitably is forced to turn to defense. Killing programs is always the one easy budget cut that can be made.

The B2 bomber is a good example. Billions go into research and development to create the aircraft over a decade, and just as it is going into production, the program is truncated to just 21 aircraft instead of the planned 132. Guess what that did to the cost per aircraft. Yet, those 21 have played a key role in every major airstrike carried in contested airspace for twenty years. None has ever been intercepted - likely never even acquired. But because we have so few, F-16's and F-17's have been used on deep penetration strikes for which they were not designed.

Another example is the Crusader artillery system. The first low rate production assemblies were being fabricated and the actual production plant was breaking ground in Oklahoma, when a brand new SECDEF, Donald Rumsfeld, decided to make a point that the country did not need to waste money on artillery when air power could provide all needed fire support. Within two years, that ignorant decision was costing lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US army is still operating a system that was first fielded in the fifties.


https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/worl...with-lockheed-martin-what-we-know/ar-AA1vHBV5


Lockheed has responded that it is fake news.

 
I see where they are building F-35,s for Turkey, I dont think they are to be trusted ,even as a nato member. The cost of procurement is inflated also due to the maintenance requirements as well as upgrades. Didn't congress refuses to sell the F-22 to any other countries to maintain the airplanes secrets and capabilities from falling into loose hands.
 
I see where they are building F-35,s for Turkey, I dont think they are to be trusted ,even as a nato member. The cost of procurement is inflated also due to the maintenance requirements as well as upgrades. Didn't congress refuses to sell the F-22 to any other countries to maintain the airplanes secrets and capabilities from falling into loose hands.

No way we should be selling them that type of technology and capability. Their NATO membership should be reconsidered.
 
Biden's pardon counter......

1500 clemencies

39 pardons

and growing......he may surpass Obama's big number
Yes, and at least one of them a Chinese spy according to Mark Levin today. Is that normal?
 
I see where they are building F-35,s for Turkey, I dont think they are to be trusted ,even as a nato member. The cost of procurement is inflated also due to the maintenance requirements as well as upgrades. Didn't congress refuses to sell the F-22 to any other countries to maintain the airplanes secrets and capabilities from falling into loose hands.
True. The F-22 was a national build from the beginning. It was, after all, the first gen 5 fighter 20 years ahead of its peers. It is analogous to the F-15 when it first appeared. However, the F-16 and F-35 were built by a consortium of nations. All of them allies.
 
I admit that I love analysing and trying to understand why people do what they do. In that regard I am utterly baffled by the Democratic party and what looks like a self inflicted and engineered demise. Is there a single master mind behind this, or because of Joe's weakness and stupidity did they just bumble along into it by committee?
Talking about the whole woke thing and DEI in particular I have heard various figures, but this crowd seem to comprise no more than about 10% of the population. Clearly the rest of the population are not comfortable with it, so which genius decided to make this a pillar of Democratic policy? Tolerance is one thing, ramming it down other peoples throats is quite another.
My conclusion is that Joe was known to be weak, even a fool (Obama said as much), but he was put in so that he could just rubber stamp an agenda. The problem came with that agenda coming from all sorts of forceful blue haired types who were inserted in the advice chain and had to be pandered to and accommodated. But why? Surely there were sensible people in power behind Joe who saw this all unfolding? Perhaps there were, there was suddenly the application of brakes by Pelosi et al, but all too late and with Joe firmly under the bus the train continued towards the cliff with their alternative pick -Kamala! The mind boggles!

I have just focused upon woke, but you can equally add illegalbimmigration and

So my grand conclusion is that the Democrats are utterly, dare I say, stupid. What other conclusion can one reach?
 
@Kevin Peacocke It is not hard to reach that conclusion, Kevin, even though day to day I meet some libtards that have very complex technical jobs.....yet still believe or did believe in nonsense about say, Wuhan Lab, Jussie Smollet, Hunter's laptop, Nick Sandmann, Russian Collusion, Russia blowing up it's own Nordstream, or masking requirements for a two year old, and Covid 19 vaccines for healthy kids. No, you don't have to be stupid to be a democrat......but it sure helps............FWB
 

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