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because TSLA isn't an actual stock, elon musk literally had to take a drug test last week and the week before that he called the president of the united states a pedophile - applying logic to it has bombed more ports than USAF
Dunno, he is pretty cautious after seeing the awesome might of the USAF turd busters
lol former USAF here. That deployment was always known as a vacation. Party is over, my dudes!
> Additionally, I believe USA flying bombers over Iran and had zero anti air measures deployed from Iran lends credibility to Trumps “air control” over Iran. B-2s are high value assets, any losses would be a huge embarrassment to the US regardless of who is the commander-in-chief. They aren't going to be deployed without air superiority being secured first, which the Israelis achieved in this case. Usually it would be the job of the USAF using F-22s and F-35s for precision strikes and the USN using Arleigh Burke missile destroyers for standoff missile strikes, like we saw with Afghanistan and Iraq.
I think the last figure I saw was ~$65k per flight house for a B-2. So 6 (reports of a 7th for backup use), figure roughly 40 hours for the flight and a bit north of $17M. Plus each carried ~$1M in munitions. Add it in the tanker support and refuels, not sure how much fuel loaded. But let’s say they took 100k pounds each (probably less than that) which for fuel is ~$100k each just for refuels. KC-46 and 135 just burning race tracks in the sky. Most things like this are already budgeted for, but in total cost assuming no budgets actually used and someone wrote a check for it? Probably around $40M for the USAF. USN depending on the block / model of the tomoheks, say higher end of $5M missions, since they are already in the area with the strike groups, roughly $150M in weapons. Perhaps other supports, give or take, $200M? Very rough guess based on my fun days of working fighter jets
I don't get why we flew the b2 bombers from the US when we had a bunch overseas already? Did the USAF just want to waste alotta gas.
tell me you don't understand nukes without telling me you don't understand nukes the material needed for nuclear bombs isn't the same material used in power plants. Similar, but not the same The stuff for bombs requires a very specific trigger (so shooting it with a gun, or detonating a bomb with it nearby won't actually do anything weirdly). Power plant material however is in a different state and thus requires constant supervision at all times until it's used up enough that it can no longer cause issues, and even then can still be generally left out in the open with damn near no issues (still not recommended though, thus the multiple layers of containment) The problem with the materials for nukes, is they have the ability to amplify blasts to hundreds of times what was dropped on the ones in Iran, and that makes it capable of taking out places like New York City and Tokyo. So what was hit was the stuff being turned into weapons grade uranium, or just outright weapons grade uranium (or plutonium). Plutonium's actually more stable than uranium, thus, blasting it doesn't cause as many issues. But once it goes through the full reaction cycle, that's when it can rapidly decay into uranium and whatever else, thus causing issues. (Though, while plutonium's more stable, it's still not really all that stable as an element, and even so you need a specific isotope). So, no, dropping 2 bunker busters back-to-back won't do anything to the material, just make it more difficult to access. Probably some dust, but shit's also in the mountains, so it's not like it's particularly going anywhere anyway. And I mean *in* the mountains, due to them being buried pretty deep for protection against things like the USAF.
*Drops bombs with USAF planes on a country we never declared war on* "NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!"
The level of stealth that the USAF has allows them to sneak into enemy airspace and deploy precisely targeted bombs without the need to evade incoming fire. It’s a lot easier to hit a target when all you have to do is focus on dropping the bomb. Not dodging incoming missiles etc.
*\*USAF aircraft of the 4th Fighter Wing (F-16, F-15C and F-15E) fly over Kuwaiti oil fires, set by the retreating Iraqi army during Operation Desert Storm in 1991* I like to think those fires are bols portfolios today though
Trump is leaving the G7 early. Per Fox, the Joint Chiefs are awaiting him in the White House Situation Room. Combined with all the USAF tankers that entered the region in the last 24 hours, we maybe expanding our role in this
In all seriousness, 28 USAF refueling tankers just flew out of the US, 28 that we know. The last time there were this many was...the Gulf War. 30 of them.
Uh oh.. rumors of USAF getting involved..
The USAF / USN could have Iran living like its 1885 without water, power, or sanitation in like 72 hours. They don’t do that because they generally restrict themselves to military value targets, but if they committed themselves completely to a conventional air war it would take 25 years to rebuild Iran from the rubble.
Engines. Same reason most of the USAF's trainers are grounded. Same reason why we're switching out engines on existing platforms.
[https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-says-to-build-new-enrichment-facility-after-iaea-censure-1c2ff0f0](https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-says-to-build-new-enrichment-facility-after-iaea-censure-1c2ff0f0) This is new news, in response to Iran openly restarting it's Uranium enrichment program. US prez has voiced support and possible USAF involvement. I would say this is an increasingly real possibility
$CW won a nice little contract from the air force CW has been awarded an approximately $80 million firm-fixed-price Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) to provide its High-Speed Data Acquisition System (HSDAS) hardware and associated repair services. * The company said the contract covers its full line of Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) products and will support production platforms as well as future USAF development programs. * Under the agreement, Curtiss-Wright will provide its HSDAS aerospace instrumentation technology including High Speed Data Acquisition, Network, Recording, Gateway, RF, and Data Analysis Software (IADS) products and services. * The sole-source contract provides products, enhancements, upgrades, repair services, field service, and technical support to the HSDAS equipment and is scheduled to run through March 2030, said the company.
Potential USAF contract.
They're being considered for a contract with USAF.
I joined the USAF at 18, 54 next month. My parents started investing my $$ when I was living it up, partying and traveling, they got me a credit card with $500.00 limit. I still have the card and my investments have done very very well. I also woukd take out $100.00 each time I needed it and wouid stretch it as long as I could, I still do that today. He needs to get involved with thrift savings plan too.
The USAF uses Salesforce so I don't think it'll go down. With that being said, their products are complete ass. UI sucks
Ionq has realistic goals. 32/64 bit guru bill gates is also invested. Also partnered with USAF. Looks promising to me!
Trump ordered tariffs on the Diego Garcia island that are under British control and home to a US naval station and a big airfield used by the USAF and RAF exclusive The entire island has not a real civilian presence except merchant resupply ships from Singapore So that's all you need to know about the tariffs and how useless and stupid they're
Only if somebody finds a deposit and it's economically worth doing. Which if the ban were thought to be permenant the price per kilo for some of them could be almost anything. Otherwise the USAF has no new jet engines or radars. However then China could reverse the ban at any time. Causing the price to plummet. So it would need Congress to pass a law requiring US suppliers to use US stocks and probably a subsidy. Which is largely the opposite of Trump's approach. Biden with the CHIPS and IRA Act was subsidising manufacturers to move to the US. Particularly for advanced microchip production. Trump just wants to threaten the manufacturers with locking them out of the US market. With his plans being so chaotic and changeable that nobody is willing to make real long term investments that they otherwise wouldn't do. I'm not even sure if there is a tariff on imports from China at the moment and if it's 145% or 245% as it just keeps changing.
That's probably a USAF/USN requirement as mandated by Congress. If a company like Boeing makes planes for the USAF. They have to purchase the equivalent amount of metal for the plane from US foundries. For supply chain reasons, it's basically impossible at least not without vast expense. To allocate that 100% of the metal for a USAF plane is US made. But you can ge t the equivalent amount of metal from a US foundry into say the Boeing/RR/Airbus supply chain. There is also an issue that US steel/aluminium isn't actually of that great a quality. With European and even Chinese equivalents even at the same "grade" being better.
Europe has had their exports of Chinese Rare Earths highly restricted over the last few years. Perhaps the most of anybody. With sales only recently resuming. Given Roll's history of cooperation with Boeing and P&W (they make the engine for the F-35 together for instance, in particular for the B model). China may feel that Rolls could divert supplies to P&W. Particularly to carry on production of the F-35 P&W F135 engine. It's a very easy way to prevent the USAF and Western militaries from getting new jet fighters. Unless they sign a "non-aggression pact" with China.
I think we're currently at 10%, down from the "discounted rate" of 17%. We don't exactly have much more to offer to the US aside from being a ~~meatshield~~ launch site for the USAF / USMC / USN when the trade war suddenly becomes spicy. We can't exactly afford to buy enough US goods to wipe out the trade deficit.
80% of iPhones & a/cs; 75% of electric fans, bicycles & dolls that America imports, 50% of APIs used in antibiotics that Americans depend on, are sourced from China. Americans will complain loudly if they have to pay double prices. Rare-earth components for the USAF's F35 jets come from China, which is the 2nd-largest foreign owner of US Treasury bonds. The US market represents 16.4% of Chinese exports. China is a $19tn economy & exports to US are $550bn. Xi has no incentive to talk with Trump. CCP is better prepared to absorb economic pain than the US. Trump has dealt himself a losing hand. - Gid Rachman * [China to US: exemptions a "small step"; "completely abolish" reciprocal tariffs]
122 vendors to compete with on the USAF EWAAC contract vehicle, and at least 90 on the HTCDF vehicle. Good news to get on but buyer beware - they didn't just get a $47B contract.
Shout out to the regards that were mentioning USAF 
I'm a USAF veteran who spent over a decade seeing our capabilities first hand. I know we're awesome and that we have some cool planes and tech. At the same time, China's military and economy are still a huge threat. Direct war with China would be very very bad for everybody involved. And we have much more to lose than they do.
I hope the Swiss see this and make retaliatory "tariffs", even with their historical non committal stance. ~ veteran is the USAF
I was born in a little village in EU and we had a USAF village attached to it, the history goes back to the first Fokker planes. My first love was american and well I was a fan in short. When Mc Donalds came it was a time to celebrate etc. They protected us against Russia. But this monstrosity of a neo Kremlin ‘culture’ is just a pack of scammers surfing on Trumps shitstream. So yea even die hard conservative friends of when american was great are disgusted.
He needs to get going on that if he is gonna do it: by August and we won't be able to afford flying half of our bombers / USAF ground crews will be listing F-35 parts on Ebay after not being paid since June.
I, VA and USAF have tried everything. Shits just fucked.
They got it along with stoke space, USAF Contract Shout out to Sec Def Hegseth 🫡🚀
I'm so glad I was born in 1995. Perfect timing to experience 9/11 at 6 years old, the 2008 crash at 12 and my Dad losing his income and house as a result, graduated high school in 2014, joined the USAF for 6 years to get my feet on the ground, COVID at age 24 in 2020, and now, just months before graduating college at 30 years old, total US economic collapse on the horizon right as I finish up a 10 year journey to be an Aerospace Engineer. Fuck me and my luck. Somehow managed to just get the full force of the US's stupidity to somehow fuck me at every step of the way through my life so far.
Well assuming that Elon doesn't get his way and the USAF honestly attempts to exchange 5th or 6th Gen aircraft for a [wish.com](http://wish.com) drone swarm the unit cost will go up if they no longer have foreign sales to help defray development and production start up costs..... It probably won't affect the F35 program so much but if this a long term thing it'll impact 6th Gen development - due to start being fielded early 2030s.
Don't forget they also got the engine contract for the USAF B-52 upgrade program, and they supply engines for the RN warships and I think they are building more surface combatants.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, the implications of this are, we are telling russia, hey we have a deal to exploit these resources, get the fuck away from our resources, or we will demonstrate what not 1980's versions of our tech thats already been fucking you up, will actually do to you. Reality is, the US military would just completely roll Russia in month. They have basically Iraq 2004 level tech being deployed. There soviet stockpiles are depleted. USAF SEAD missions to destroy the s300's and then air dominance and its over.
All eight of them, all sold within 10 miles of a USAF base.
Here’s some insight from the inside for you. There are two US military NGAD contracts. One for the Navy and one for the Air Force. There are only two companies bidding for the USAF contract Boeing & Lockheed. The USN contract is Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrup. Boeing’s defense production hub is in St. Louis for air dominance. Boeing bought out KLX in 2018, (massive, small machined parts and kit distributor). They bought out what was GKN aerospace who produced many composite materials and assemblies. They are building a massive 1.8M square foot complex right next door to the older production building where they made the F15 and the F18. Just last year they sent an email to all employees in STL to vote on a new STL Boeing logo.. There is an unnamed, unrecognizable aircraft silhouette at the top of the logo with the other main Boeing defense related aircraft. It looks like a triangle UFO. What do you think is going to happen and why there is so much movement in STL?
Did you just list a bunch or random mechanical sounding things? A linkage joint who talks like that? Ball bearing? Ball bearings are not the most common in cars plus they have been around forever the USAF spent a lot of time trying to bomb those factories in the 40s. Fuel spray nozzles? Did you ask chat GTP for a list of car sounding things? Or since you spell liter litre you are obviously an Euro type, so maybe you are using a translator that might explain the weird nomenclature? It would also explain why you are ok with EU countries having tariffs but write a thinly veiled anti trump tariff rant. None of the things you list are revolutionary. They are slow trickle evolution. Engine and chassis were basically figured in the 60s and its been tiny changes yearly since. You might could include electronic fuel injection but that too about 15 years to get properly sorted out so it is also in the evolution category. Euro cars being reliable is bullshit. I have turned wrenches on BMWs, Audits, and VWs. Over complicated garbage that fails to live up to the quality of a 90s Toyota. Don't even get my started on British cars WTF Rover why so gay.
Anduril is legit. Their Baracuda line of missiles will in a lot of ways revolutionize affordable mass in munitions. Their lattice AI, while its has its problems, is being developed to work with other major defence industry players. Their small drones are fantastic. Their large Fury autonomous drones, are one of two pre-selected competitors (along with General Atomics) for the USAF's CCA program, which could be a program in the hundreds of billions.
You obviously don't follow Archer or Joby closely and just listen to headlines. Below is the rate of production for that new facility which is 10 for 2025. Archer to date has only completed one non-conforming Midnight aircraft. They have been building 6 conforming aircraft that they have yet to announce completing yet and have missed several of their own deadlines on them. Joby's pilot production facility has completed 5 production prototype aircraft to date and are at a rate of one per month, which is increasing to 2 a month at that facility with their upgrade in work that should be completed towards the end of Q1 2025. Archer will be trying to reach that same rate of 2 per month at the end of 2025. Joby owns the land and some old buildings for their future main production facility in Dayton OH which is near WPAFB the largest acquisition base. A board advisor is not going to change DoD revenue, especially considering he literally came off of the Joby board 2 months prior. Joby has more USAF funding obligated vs Archer, so please don't mention the up to contract value because then you don't know Government contracts. Yes, Archer Defense can be an amazing ROI with a hybrid VTOL, but they don't even have the hybrid VTOL developed let alone tested. They are targeting a Program of Record (PoR), which means they are going at risk until they can win a contract. That won't be a small feat considering they have no system level testing of their hybrid VTOL that they don't even have a prototype for. Archer's is 80% commercial off the shelf (COTS) parts vs Joby being almost completely vertically integrated. That explains the difference of speed for these companies. Bottom line is that both of these companies need to succeed for the eVTOL industry, but don't spread nonsense of saying they are the clear leader. I was arguing before with the thread OP that these piloted flights were not going to happen in Dec 2024 and here we are now going in Feb. A lot of smoke gets pushed out, I mean he was trying to convince people the NJ drone sightings was the one and ONLY Midnight aircraft that Archer has. https://preview.redd.it/5n8pc4pou7ge1.png?width=1412&format=png&auto=webp&s=1ea4d42da2d8e31fc7132743f66c626b5c334ff3
Last time I saw an American cope like this was when the Chinese "spy" balloon drifted over the US and the USAF scrambled F22 jets to shoot it and some local weather balloons down with $100k missiles.
You can ask the USAF what they think of it.
Ask USAF officers what they think.
They aren’t just ideas. Each of these companies spend a significant chunk of their profit to pursue non contract work that greatly boosts their chances of securing future contracts so they are pouring money into all these advanced techs and have been for years. The USAF has the most advanced air capabilities in the world. The US Navy is 2nd in air capabilities and would be the 2nd best Air Force in the world if they weren’t part of the US. They have more than enough planes and air capability to shoot these interceptors down. China demoing one or two of these missiles is different than being able to operationally produce them en masse as needed. Our manufacturing is still far ahead of countries like china. For china, it’s easy to copy capabilities to get to where they are but it becomes infinitely harder to innovate on your own once you are near the top. You don’t know (neither do I) about the types of projects that are classified. I would be shocked if there weren’t projects like these already at the primes. Speculation as a civilian is moot and essentially useless. The DoD has an unbelievable budget to pursue stuff like this. Regardless of what you think, they DO have world class engineers that are not always like tech bros who just go to the highest bidder. The primes may not be able to afford a ton of them for every job type but they are definitely there. Stop buying the snake oil that Elon and these tech bros are selling. They haven’t found these huge loopholes that no one else has ever thought of. They don’t have the secret sauce to drastically improve anything.
The other problem with defense companies is that they make what they make. Everything is by government contract, so with the legacy groups there are no surprise earning reports, no massive growth spurts. PLTR is subject to the same laws of physics. (Am LMT/BA/NOC/LHX bag holder) It is a market darling, and God Bless, you can make a sh*t load of money with it. But everything priced in is 100% speculation, do so at your own risk. At least do so while the stock is hot. It will take decades to provide any material ROI for those at priced at this cost basis. That is with the exception of cost overruns from the broken USAF/USN procurement process. Cost overruns are the only surprise profit in this sector.
Actually I was in the USAF, worked at the NSA, now I’m a physician. You guys might hate the truth - but that’s the truth. Those jobs are extremely hard to get - and in order to get in the door now you have to either know someone, be prior military, or have a protected minority status/disability. But seeing as how you guys know everything - downvote away.
I had a chance in USAF to be on one of the commercials. Did nkt take it.
June 2023 articles came out about a new **NJ Unmanned Aerial Systems Test Site**, collaboration between **USTRANSCOM**, **USAF Air Mobility Command** and other local agencies. The test site stretched from JBMDL to Dover AFB and to Atlantic City Airport, to the *FAA Technical Center* and National Aerospace Research and Technology Park. The NJUASTS (test site) actually and specifically does NOT limit testing to any one geographical location and extends nation wide (its on their website) It involves DOD, commmercial, academic and federal (think...FAA) partnerships New Jersey started this AFTER seeing New York start a 50 mile drone testing corridor and of course NJ said I want one! And all of a sudden everyone starts seeing drones everywhere. Many of these drones look exactly like the shapes of planes. This shit is fucking debunked. Sorry boyz *no anal probes anytime soon*. Only Shrek Dildos! 
AWAITING USAF Statement on ACHR 
Nah, retirement at 40 is. Thank you USAF.
FULL PORT TO ACHR UNIDENTIFIED DRONES EVERYWHERE. USAF NOT PLAYING GAMES ANYMORE. ACHR $500+ 
NUCLEAR TIME. WHERE'S MY HELMET? ACHR WITH USAF ARMAMENTS MISSILES AND LASERS. 
USAF FINNA STRAP A .50 CAL MINI GUN ON THE ACHR MIDNIGHT AND FUKK SOME SHIT UP.  ACHR $500+ 💎💎💎
USAF... NASA... BOEING... UNITED AIRLINES... SOUTHWEST AIRLINES... STELLANTIS... GARMIN... BLACK ROCK... ARK... ALL PUSHING ACHR. ACHR $500+ 🎄🎄🎄💎💎💎
YOU... MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH... AND THATS OK. THE USAF... UAL... NASA... LUV... BLK.... ARKK... DUBAI... ARE ABLE TO AND THAT'S WHAT MATTERS.  ARCH $500+ 
UAL, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES AND THE USAF BELIEVE DIFFERENT. 
ANOTHER ACHR DD NUGGET FOR YOU REGARDS: UAL... USAF... NASA... LUV... BLK... ARKK... GRMN... ALL ARE INVESTORS OR STRATEGIC PARTNERS ALREADY WITH ACHR. THEY KNOW MORE THAN YOU DO. ALL ARE INCREASING STAKES ALONG WITH INSIDERS AND EMPLOYEES. ACHR $500+ 
UAL USAF NASA BA LUV BLK ARKK ACHR $500+ 
UNITED AIRLINES, USAF, NASA, BOEING, BLACK ROCK, ARKK... ACHR INVESTORS. ACHR $500+ 
ACHR IS BACKED BY THE USAF AND UNITED AIRLINES. IM IN. ACHR $500+ 
ELECTRIC SHARKS WITH FRIGGIN LASER BEAMS. THE USAF LOVES THEM. ACHR $500+ 
ACHR IS THE FUTURE OF THE US MILITARY USAF APPROVES. ACHR $200+ 
I WANT THE SAME ARCHER HELO THE USAF HAS. 
EVERY BRANCH OF THE US MILITARY WILL EMPLOY ARCHER VEHICLES. USAF IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. ACHR $50+ EOY 
ARCHER DELIVERS FIRST MIDNIGHT AIRCRAFT TO USAF "With its vertical takeoff and landing capabilities, proprietary electric powertrain and low noise profile, Archer's Midnight aircraft is well-suited for military aviation operations. Archer’s Midnight aircraft is expected to provide a much safer, cost-effective and quieter alternative to existing internal combustion engine options. As such, it holds the promise of enhancing rapid response, agility and operational effectiveness across a wide range of mission profiles." ACHR $50 