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Fighter pilot expert chimes in
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Iran was aimbotting as well
Let's see the position of Mercury before we rush to any judgements about the capabilities of the US military.
Retrograde is when the planet's direction of travel though the zodiacal constellations appears to temporarily reverse from our vantage on Earth, not that planet's position in the sky.
The following is an oversimplification, but Mercury and Venus spend a lot of time in retrograde because they are inside our orbit; they are in retrograde for much of the half of their orbit they pass between us and the sun. For planets outside Earth's orbit, they are in retrograde less often, basically when Earth is passing their (slower) orbit up.
Planets orbit faster the closer they are to the sun, so retrograde events happen frequently for Venus and Mercury, providing plenty of excuses for miscommunications and frustrated love.
Can't believe we've got heliocentrists on this web zone, can't believe what the world has come to smh
It’s just a red herring. Every air force has a plane involved in a crash now and then.
Yes but not all of them are astrological. Some of them are due to having the wrong crystals on the dashboard and misaligning the energy fields of the plane. Others are due to a witch's curse.
filing a flight plan for my astral plane
That term exists in aviation for a reason. Rules are written in blood and tarot cards.
The f-35 was supposed to be unhexable with developments gleaned from the Allah Hexing Expedition, but like everything else the U.S. does it was over promised and under built. China is going to have the first truly hex stealthed fighter
A lot of pilots these days rely on computer systems instead of old-school aviation knowledge, like remembering that a witch cursed the Wright brothers in 1909 for misusing her magic in the Kittyhawk. New pilots forget the lessons of the past and then wonder why 9/11 happened.
The former happened a number of times in the documentary series, Stargate Atlantis
A herring is a type of fish and that's clearly a jet airplane.
Are you sure? “Herring” is close to “heron”, that sounds a bit 50/50 to me.
F-35 expert here! That jet is actually very uncomfortable based on hull language. Please do not do this with any you meet in the wild!
Sometimes They Just Do That
They do though!
I am looking forward to Felix’s rant about the downed F35.
If he can insert NGE or Elden Ring, I’ll have BINGO.
Thank you for your input lieutenant general janissary cumtree
An actual answer is an infrared surface to air missile (IR SAM) ambush on an aircraft flying at low to medium altitude. The footage supports that, the missile impacts by the engine exhaust on the rear aspect suggesting infrared guidance, the aircraft is intact afterwards (shown in this image, no wings or stabilisers flying off) which is consistent with the smaller warheads on these systems, and reportedly returned back to base.
The US led coalition had 28 aircraft damaged or destroyed by the IR SAMs during the Gulf War.. It's a well known threat. Iran's IR SAMs are more modern and advanced than what Saddam Hussein's Iraq had, as with all technology nowadays.
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