Comments: It's Probably Nothing....
Perhaps we'll call this "Ass Suck Blue."
Posted by Casey Klahn at October 21, 2016 10:54 PM
Ought to be fun in a furball. Now what "color" are those wizards of warfare going to paint the transponders? Like most Obama military trickery this should work out just as well.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at October 22, 2016 5:08 AM
In what sense is that standard training?
Posted by Ann K at October 22, 2016 5:19 AM
It isn't standard training. It's an effort to avoid accidental shoot downs. It's separating the matches in the matchbox while the kitchen is on fire. Vermont wins the funny by reminding us that the radio identification plane to plane is way more critical than the visual identification: these things move fast.
Having been army, and not an air forcer, myself, I wonder how foolproof those transponders are? My intital understanding was that your own plane pinged you, and the others did not. I suppose now the Roosks have their own identifier, however they seem to be masters of security and surprise.
If I were in charge, I'd paint ours red. I'd send a side panel or a vert stabilizer to Putin directly, and tell him we own the sky. But, then again, if I were in charge we'd be winning in the MidEast.
I'd tell Turkey that the next theater of operations will be Turkey if they don't clean up their act. Syria, at this late date, can become the hell hole the Muslim radicals can have, for a while. Iraq: you're decertified. You are now a tank park for M1s.
This is called decision. You Republicans might try it out for a change. As for me, I'm tired of being pushed by Putin. I suppose you realize that he's not going to stop until he's made to stop?
Posted by Casey Klahn at October 22, 2016 7:10 AM
Is this anything like ISIS warriors dressing as women to slip through the firing line?
Posted by BillH at October 22, 2016 7:23 AM
Go home, and tend the chickens.
Posted by ghostsniper at October 22, 2016 7:59 AM
In what sense is that standard training?
The US military maintains teams that play the role of The Bad Guys in training. They use Bad Guy tactics and doctrine so our guys can learn to fight against them. Their stuff is painted to look like Bad Guy stuff.
There is no info on where the pix were taken, so I'm guessing it's just usual training stuff. Although, I'm willing to entertain conspiracy theories about false flag operations. Make 'em good!
Posted by SteveS at October 22, 2016 4:30 PM
Looks like part of the US Navy adversary squadron in Key West check out the white ground power units. http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=3401
Posted by NavyDavy at October 22, 2016 6:06 PM
Reforger 75, 76, 77
Aggressor forces
Posted by ghostsniper at October 22, 2016 6:47 PM
Because the US globalists have INVADED Syria after creating a false flag "civil war" there, and have been unable to convincingly pin the US (and proxy) created atrocities on the Democratically Elected Government of the Sovereign State of Syria, the Globalists cabal in the Obama/Bush/Klinton regime will now Provide That Proof, of Aggressor Attack Planes Inflicting Horrible Damage On Innocent Syrian Civilians Women and Children.
And the "proof" will be in the painting. And the deniable plausibility will be in claiming "force on force" training scenarios.
for background see Kermit Roosevelt, Iran, 1954.
Or Libya, Egypt, Yemen, recent.
Posted by itor at October 22, 2016 7:56 PM