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That reveal trailer made me feel like a kid again. I don't think a trailer has done that to me since...I was a kid. :joystick:

Hornets and Tomcats playing together on the same deck. :wub:

That is some true Hornet mastery right there! Also one of the better demos I've seen. :thumbup:

Wow! :shocking: The Hornet is of course stunning but how about that Harrier? Great article.

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Ooooooh. Well that sucks. Do you know where the cabin altitude gauge in the Hornet is? Edit: Here it is, I think. It's the orange #2.

Correct. :thumbup: I didn't even know hypoxia was on the rise for them. Aren't they always breathing a safe o2 supply through a mask anyway?

:huh: But you're the one who refuses to believe Ryan Browne's report. If you're not on board, why not get to the bottom of it? It sounds like the Pentagon only planned on briefing the press. Without contacting the authors of the reports and/or Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, I don't know how you guys plan on learning if it was an AIM-9, or an AIM-120. Or what the pilot had for breakfast that morning.

Is defense.gov considered fake news? https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1220818/dod-official-sole-focus-in-iraq-syria-remains-on-isis/ The rest of the media was given information from Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis. Not sure what CNN has to gain from lying about what type of missile was used. The general population probably doesn't even care. You could always contact DoD public affairs to see if there's any other media that's getting it wrong. :) 703-571-3343

If you're like me, and love a little wrist bling in the cockpit, you might find this interesting. Saw this article today stating the US Navy will begin issuing every F/A-18 pilot a Garmin Watch. (Above photo is of course the notorious Breitling B50) On a more serious note, I guess the aim is to reduce the risk of hypoxia "episodes" in the cockpit. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/16/the-navy-is-issuing-every-f-a-18-pilot-a-garmin-watch-heres-why.html

Well there you have it. Another report. Su-22 defeated the AIM-9 and it was followed up with a 120, just as Tom Cooper and SkateZilla had said.

Very interest read SkateZilla...awesome work digging that up. :book:

Those are beautiful, Jhuss96!

I love them, too. Excitement is a positive thing. :)

Hooray! My new home for years to come! :D Edit: I see you, Snake. ^ ;)

Par for the course when you're not on a need to know basis and can only rely on press. ;)

According to this report, yes. https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706201054782289-syria-soldiers-rescue-pilot/

Agreed on all counts!

This photo taken June 6th, 2017 appears to show AIM-9s being used in Operation Inherent Resolve, which is what I'd bet on being used given your reports of it being a close-range missile, which would also be significantly easier to defeat given it's slower speed, and since they're most likely there for CAS patrols. But this is all speculation of course.

Dude that is cool! I've tried to make similar head cam videos of me flying Cessnas but my sun visor always blocks the view with how high up I like to sit.

Could you cite your source for this? I wasn't able to find anything about what weapon was employed, but I am curious, too. :D

US F/A-18E shoots down a Syrian Su-22 in Raqqa

I vote Harrier with pre-purchase coming soon and releasing around September 2017 followed closely by the Hornet which will release just in time for Christmas 2017 late Q4! Okay tinfoil hat off now. :D

Figured it out. My mobile devices are just experiencing overhead from having to decrypt my VPN client keys. Someone on Reddit was able to answer this.

I decided I'd get fancy last night and purchase a little Raspberry Pi machine to host my own VPN, since my mobile phone service provider has started throttling all bandwidth using video streaming sites such as YouTube and Netflix which forces a 480p playback. VPNs stop this quite well. I'm great at following directions, but otherwise completely clueless as to how this is working from a technological standpoint. My PC which is connected to my router is working great! I lose roughly 10 Mbps of download speed when I'm connected, but that's still over 200 Mbps which I can't complain about. My mobile devices on the other hand....not so much. I was under the impression VPNs are limited by the slowest connection. So if my mobile service provider gives me 70 Mbps down, and my home ISP gives me 250 Mbps down, my devices would connect at 70 Mbps down - maybe with a 10ish loss like my PC. It appears I may be wrong. I'm pulling 10 Mbps down, which is the upload speed of my server. Something tells me this is normal, but I'm too bummed out to believe it's true after spending hours of my night setting this up. It's not bad. Certainly 10 Mbps is enough to stream 1080p video to my phone, but it's not worth keeping on 24/7. Does something sound wrong here? Also, why isn't my local PC affected by the upload limit? I'm not hosting the server from my PC, it connects just like a client does. Only difference is it's connected via an Ethernet cable to my router. Something else I've noticed is when I connect my phone and tablet to my home wifi network I can pull 50-60 down. When I disconnect from it and use LTE, I pull 10 down. All on my VPN. Of course I can get over 200 with the VPN disabled on wifi. What gives? Is this normal?