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They would have used multiple bases of course, but the actual involvment wasn’t clear

It is not clear whether the B-2s landed in Australia before or after their strikes on alleged Houthi weapons bunkers in Yemen, or whether US air force tankers used the bases to refuel the giant bombers.

The ABC initially reported that “A remote Northern Territory air base has been used as a staging post for this week’s major US airstrike on underground Houthi weapons stores in Yemen.”

Later, the ABC added a strange note to the story. It said the Defence Department refused to confirm or deny whether US aircraft involved in the strikes took off from Australian air force base RAAF Tindal, in the Northern Territory. The spokesperson claimed the need to protect “operational security.”

they’ll fly out from Whiteman and over the Pacific and Australia

They could also be forward deployed at the Australian airbase near Darwin they reportedly used for the Yemen strikes

I think it’s certainly possible a number of F35s have been shot down, particularly with relatively inexperienced pilots (at SEAD anyway) and if Iran is smart about their use of anti-aircraft platforms (similar to the two F117s that were hit in Yugoslavia)

Europe and five eyes would parrot the narrative, but there are a lot of countries doing testing under the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty

I would think it’s about intelligence collection on US deployments, definitely

There are some journal articles about 20km high weather balloons using thermal imaging to detect F35 exhaust plumes from 350-2000km, and using interference from Starlink significant to identify low observable aircraft.

They can already detect F35 and B2 aircraft with VHF radar, and Russia has fielded a radar platform which steps down in frequency to better locate and identify signals.

Yeah sorry mate, I’m old so 2021 was like, the future a week ago

Kids and their electrical gizmos and doohickeys

Yeah, I don’t know how many rubber bullets you need to take to let you criticise China when you did a very soft interview with AOC and Bernie while they’re on their democratic party rehabilitation tour

I don’t think it’s a meme? What have streamers done since 2021 that I have missed?

I tend to immediately zone out if it’s a streamer so I could genuinely have missed a lot

And lining up people to take the fall of/when it goes wrong

Noble gasses (e.g. xenon) diffuse through the ground into the atmosphere and can be detected some time after detonation. For example, from memory all the DPRK underground nuclear tests were confirmed with atmospheric results.

Imagine being a streamer.

Also imagine being a streamer and criticising anyone for not intervening.

Yes - however check the extent to which your other entitlements are reduced.

My employer lets you continue to get full entitlements (PTO, counts toward employment length) even if you’ve purchased vacation days.

Abstracted is definitely better phrasing

Add von Braun to that list

The majority of staff will just be doing ancillary things like compiling and moving information around, and making powerpoints.

Very disconnected from the reality of the war machine they are serving

The estimated number of dual citizens us lower than expected, maybe a million?

Leningrad lasted 2 and half + years under much worse conditions.

Every persecuted group gets a slice of Europe

Israel’s GDP is about two percent of the US - in another words, the US could pay every entity in Israel to stay in a bunker for 50 years until another 100% was added to the US debt to GDP ratio

The US dropped an average of 600 tons of explosives on Korea a day during the Korean war over about 3 years