Interesting Aviation News - E6-B Doomsday Planes

"Jayvincent" (jayvincent) 10/02/2020 at 17:45 • Filed to: Doomsday, Planelopnik, planes you've (probably) never heard of

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Were spotted with their transponders on right before the President announced his CoVid-19 positive test result.

Details on the sighting are here:

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and t here’s a great article on the aircraft over at the Drive :

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if you are interested in more background.

Please 2020, let’s not test any Doomsday scenarios...

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 17:59

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“Please 2020, let’s not test any Doomsday scenarios.”

Meanwhie:

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ttyymmnn > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 18:04

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I wouldn’t put too  much in that. I look at the ADS-B sites regularly and often see those E-6s. Yesterday was also the first day of October, when the budgets reset, and there’s lots of money to burn for aviation fuel.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 10/02/2020 at 18:06

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And that dude just kept driving into the fireball? Over on The Warzone, there’s lots of videos of Armenian tanks getting nailed one after another by Turkish-supplied drones. Wouldn’t want to be a tanker over there right now. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 10/02/2020 at 18:09

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I don’t think I’d want to be a tanker ever.  Sure, you get armor, but you are also a target from everyone up from a lonley infantryman with an RPG to a jet fighter doing close air support.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 10/02/2020 at 18:12

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Probably no surprise that the Marines are getting rid of all their tanks .

For Sweden > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 18:16

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If you got the jet fuel, might as well use this as a training opportunity

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 10/02/2020 at 18:17

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I’m no expert in US military arms, but I’ve always felt that the marines, outside of WWII have been a really ill-defined branch.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 10/02/2020 at 18:17

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Buncha CMSgts with cash money to spend

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 10/02/2020 at 18:20

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I’m no expert either, but perhaps you are right, at least post Korea where there are no more beach invasions. 

facw > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 10/02/2020 at 18:21

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Tanks feel massively obsolete right now. If you have air superiority, you can use it to dominate enemy tanks with airpower, so you don’t need tanks to fight tanks. If you don’t have air superiority, your own tanks are going to get crushed from the air, so they won’t be any help against enemy armor. So for tanks to be relevant, you need a perfectly balanced situation in the air where both sides maintain enough air power to take out the enemy’s CAS planes and helicopters. And even in that rare case, it’s quite possible that lighter ground vehicles would do the job better. For example in the first Gulf War, Bradley IFV s with their TOW missiles killed more Iraqi armor than the Abrams tanks with their guns. And to get that questionable utility you have to deal with the logistics of moving and supplying the heavy and thirsty tanks.

ttyymmnn > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 18:33

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There’s an E-6B in the air right now over Florida.

Jb boin > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 18:36

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If i die, i want to give America the best military show it has ever seen, the biggest !

Big, big fireballs, fire and fury like you’ve never seen !

I can assure you it will be the best you will ever see , even better than Abraham Lincoln ever did !  

Nauraushaun > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 20:43

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Wait. So a plane can do a strange manoeuvre to help send signals in the event of communication breakdown due to nuclear war. How does that relate to the President picking up a virus?

OPPOsaurus WRX > Jayvincent 10/02/2020 at 21:34

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wtf was the guy that car thinking?? that was just the wind? the bridge is fine after that giant fireball???