Your comment is in rather poor taste.

The poorest taste appears to be in fools letting a monster set the mission plan. We will never know what actually happened here. I’m glad the crews are safe and in medical care. The loss of the equipment is going to add up quickly. Is the plan to deplete our military. Or maybe just no plan….

love the ones who try to educate us on how this cluster fuck is a good thing

This one had plenty of them.

DON'T THEY HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO? I resent that they are allowed to shit in the ONE oasis I have from repuke garbage

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Riiiiiiiight.

But I am seeing conflicting search results on whether they were F-15Ds or F-15Es.

The AI "guessing" is in full force this morning.

It's so frustrating.

Epstein's Gulfstream G550!!!

The F-15D is only used as a trainer, and lacks several subsystems to make room for that role, and the second seat. They were never intended for combat use. It was definitely not a D model.

although it's possible they had some "newbies" out and about and why you had that number of plane losses. I don't think I have seen reported how many were "ejected" before their planes went down. If they were in "E"s, then there would have been 6 crew members (assuming a full compliment) who would have bailed.

It could have been damaged anytime previously and simply lost power on the video.

In any case, the video of the plane going down and the pilots being recovered is clear enough, so I guess the Pentagon had to say something.

I don't think this one tells us that much either about what hit it.

CENTCOM claims that all planes were engaged with Iranian aircraft and air defenses and then were shot down by Kuwaiti air defense.

No matter what the situation is...no matter what the outcome, the reasons, the human toll, the damage to community...

They have to make sure to mention the monetary cost.

Because money is the only important thing that matters. Then rest is just minutiae.

(You watch, once this conflict is over, the main talking point from both sides will be about money.)

And, I guess, in many ways we are. Or should I say, "Arrrr!"

We were programmed to think that way, and I am sad to say the programming worked like gangbusters.

We are being led by the wallet and we don't care.

Where's the battle plan and the coordination with other countries? I suspect it doesn't exist. Our experienced military leaders know what they're doing, but how many of them have been replaced with Trump sycophants with the Hegseth mentality of just go in and blow everything up. We'll show them who's boss.

I suddenly learned the word, deconfliction as many people involved spoke of how, while not working jointly with Iran and Russia, we made sure that we didn't get in each other's way as all of us fought against ISIS.

Trump is not even coordinating with our allies.

With little or nothing accomplished. How 'bout that DOW though.

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This will be one epithet for Operation Epstein.

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Glad to hear all crew members survived, if that's to be believed.

Or do they want to be seen as happy ass War profiteers after dead soldiers and three jets shot down?

This disgusts me.

A core aspect of basing assets in foreign lands is to assure US force projection and joint protection. A key part of that is highly integrated interoperability between allied comms and detection systems.

This has all the flavour of "Operation Cluster Fuck"

The DUI hire should be handing in his resignation immediately.

Instead he's going to pass the blame to subordinates.

You are a reliable poster of accurate news links - truly a good contributor during times of mass disinformation. Thank you.

Appreciate you!

That's the answer.

How do you target and open fire on fighters with friendly transponders?

Where is the command and control?

Shit like this gets Wing and Group commanders sacked.

I'm taking a break. It's good to be back.

The past year has been a nightmare and this year hasn't let up.

They did almost no planning and then just started bombing.

The idiots in charge don't understand that the more planning you do, the less you will lose.

see below...

didn't care about the logistics tail that fighting and winning any war/conflict requires.

The US should not expect any help from European Allies who fly US made aircraft and have stock of repair parts and/or equipment.

Umm, I'll wait for the long term determination here. A jet struck by a missile requiring the crew to bail can inflict serious harm to the crew. Shrapnel wounds, spinal compression injuries, concussions, etc.

The new ejection seats are designed to send the crew into the air far enough for their parachutes to be deployed if the plane is near ground level.

Not to mention the F-15 is a superior fighter aircraft to the F/A-18.

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action” --Ian Fleming

...leaving satisfied.

You're exactly correct, friend...

nothing to get excited about, correct Whiskey Pete ?

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where is DOGE on THIS BULLSHIT

Trump: You owe me $ 3 billion in Bitcoins.

In my world, fury is a result of weakness and loss of control. Focused and competent people get results, not angry.

Could have bought quite a bit of butter with those tax dollars...

to Keystone Cops. All fired up and ready to go — all about lethality, annihilation, etc., and no thinking.