The cope-radar failed to stop the drone this time.

Ow,,my tax dollars

ouch oof my inability to afford bones

Whoopsie doopsie.

Ah well. I'm sure all those millions of school children will be happy to go without lunch for a few months to pay for a new one.

Wh- ... Whose bones?

We’ll just send a Tomahawk their way if they complain too loudly. We still have plenty of those, right?

Pfft, just interceptor shrapnel.

ouch right in the wallet

Could this delay the invasion or does it only affect air operations?
Well, I know that one thing is linked to the other, but I mean, is it going to be serious enough to delay a ground operation?

I think we're so-so on tomahawks.

You just have to get them all to gather in one place. Say it's a peace festival, or something.

It depends, if the US wants to air drop paratroopers in. If so, they probably move them further away to Jordan or maybe even some base in Europe. But I doubt this would delay operations. It might be better to just drop them and then move the planes out of harms way.

But the AWACS is not closely related to ground operations. So the loss of the Sentry is not going to hurt that much.

You guys were getting bones?

Raytheon said they can increase production rates to meet the new demand by changing the distribution in components.

One model is laser-focused on payload and guidance without the uneccessary extravagance of engine or fuselage, Type B is designed for complimentary tactical versatility with engine and fuselage but avoiding the burdensome payload or guidance. Additional models are coming next quarter.

Thanks to these and other advanced enovashuns (tm), Raytheon reports 100% production increases and 50% weight savings.

Naturally this will all be offset by dynamic surge pricing, another Raytheon enovashun (tm), so the units will be priced somewhere between $250 million USD and California.

Potentially, if they don't have enough other AWACS aircraft, and don't have the coverage they would like.

At best, it's half a billion dollars down the tube.

I got a bone. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

they have dozen of these

Well, it's not like they weren't going to go without lunch anyway.

Did you bring enough for the rest of the class?

... and spread the excuse that it was an AI mistake.

It'll buff right out

We can jack up the interest payments on their lunch debts to pay for this war.

Charging them interest on the costs of the lunch that they weren't going to receive is definitely going above and beyond!

This looks like another angle of the one we knew about - before going into this we had 16 of these, with one destroyed, we're down to 15.

Is this being asserted as being a second AWACS aircraft hit putting us down to 14 now?

It looks to me like just the other side of the one we already knew about.

AWACS are spread over the world though and they need to keep some of these for maintenance. The readiness rate, meaning the ones that can fly missions is 56% which is actually rather high. Still what that means is they might have dozens, but that means only one dozen that are mission capable.

It's not a crisis but it hurts

If you can't afford bones for everyone, then you can't bring bones to class

How about other ones? They said they took out 5

Nothing some duct tape can't fix. The wings are still whole!

I have also heard that yeah, we're down to 14 now, Saagar was freaking out about it on Breaking Points.

They also had a US Mil, guy who opposed Iraq 03, used to do a lot of war gaming, tail end of the show.

Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Colin Powell.

Yeah remember those two tankers that apparently had a midair collison not too long ago, one went down with all souls aboard?

He said it was due to a shoulder fired missile.

Way I read that is some militia in Iraq brushed off their emergency Stinger, for a special occasion.

Fairly sure an Iraqi militia group claimed credit for it not long after it happened.

The Green Zone in Iraq has also been... people are just flying bomb drones into it, blowing shit up inside the fortress/embassy.

AFAIK, 5 aircraft total got wrecked, but just the one was the AWACS.

Others could have been any kind of aircraft.

They sure love their noble liberators.

They can just keep the front end pointed toward the emperor at his next birthday parade.

And the thing is most people do not understand how valuable that asset is to the military. They are just as important as the fuel takers. Information and logistics more important than most think.