Fighter aircraft

This also needs congressional approval.

General Atomics has delivered its first FQ-42 Vengeance to the Air Force, which means the service, rather than the contractor, can now start exercising its Increment One collaborative combat aircraft and find out what they want to do with it.

Another delivery, this one in South Korea, where the first production KF-21 Boramae has been handed over to the Republic of Korea Air Force.

That's the first of 120 they expect in the next six years.

Possible New U.S.

Sales of Combat Aircraft to Israel In January 2024, sources reported that the United States and Israel are in the process of finalizing up to three different sales of fixed-wing 25F35Is and 25F15IAs.

in rotary wing aircraft twelve apache helicopters to israel while the delivery of such items are likely years away reports also note that israel has been accelerating acquisition of various kinds of aerial munitions worth hundreds of millions of dollars and Humanitarian Assistance for Palestinians During President Biden's October 18 visit to Israel, he announced $100 million in U.S. humanitarian assistance for Gaza and the West Bank to, quote, help support over a million displaced and conflict-affected people with clean water, food, hygiene support, medical care, and other essential needs, end quote, via, quote, trusted partners including U.N. agencies and international NGOs, end quote.

according to the u s agency for international development usaid for fiscal year twenty twenty four as of mid-january usaid's bureau of humanitarian assistance had committed forty three point three million dollars in assistance for gaza and the west bank and the department of state's bureau of population refugees and migration had committed fifty one million dollars for gaza and the west bank via the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east and eighteen point two million for the region via another implementing partner The Department of State has announced a temporary pause in unobligated U.S. funding to UNRWA pending further review of allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7th attacks.

Oil executives sound alarms regarding fuel crisis, stating that fuel prices are likely to increase sharply and imminently.

Houthi shoot down Saudi fighter aircraft.

Helicopter crash reported in Los Angeles.

D.C. Police Union voices concern with police officers being surveilled by flock sensors.

Other than diesel and gasoline, natural gas levels are also at the lowest level in years, with natural gas continuing to dwindle after Qatar shut down production after being targeted during the height of the war.

In the Red Sea Horn of Africa region, conflict between the Saudis and Houthis continued to escalate.

Overnight, the Houthis shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter aircraft over Marib.

The status of the aircrew is not known.

Even more of a lifetime ago.

That means it was made to basically play Pong, Tank, and the driving game Gran Trak 10, and variations thereof amongst those games, like Jet Fighter and Pong Doubles and whatever else.

That's all it was meant to play.

Because that was all it was meant to play, this thing was designed to have five sprites.

It's just the terminology's different.

They called them player missile graphics.

It had five sprites: two that were meant to be used by players, paddles in Pong, tanks in Tank, jet fighters in Jet Fighter, cars in Gran Trak; two slightly less manipulatable sprites that were meant to be missiles or bullets, like the bullets in Tank or Jet Fighter; and one sprite that had very little utility, that could not be used in most circumstances, that was meant to be used as a ball in ball and paddle games.

That's it, five sprites.

No, that's great.

Yeah, so I'm curious, before we get into the fighter discussion, 'cause that's really where this is going, what is your favorite fighter aircraft, why, and what is the most effective fighter aircraft to be able to adopt software with an agile mindset?

That, that is a great question.

I would say the F-22 is my favorite because I love air superiority.

Like, how are you helping the fight with the F-22, and what does that look like?

Yeah, so let's talk about the problem.

Right now, any fighter aircraft, but, you know, we'll stick to the F- F-22.

If you want to do a software update to the F-22, you're talking at least a maintenance period with some type of, you know, hardware exchange, switching out one hardware component and system with another.

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Fighter Jet program with them.

Uh, also with Philippines-

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