Comment by gwbas1c
8 months ago
> Doing so was Army protocol, meant to allow the pilots to practice secretly whisking away a senior government official in an emergency.
1: You don't want to do that for the first time in wartime.
2: In case you've been living under a rock, we are at war with Russia right now. We just haven't declared war.
I fail to see how flying untracked in a public airspace 8000km away from Moscow has anything to do with the US being in a new cold war, I don't see what good it brings, especially if it's to play hide and seek around a civilian airport
The Russian Embassy is pretty close as is the Chinese. That said, they could easily track military helicopters with or without ADS-B Out.
Easily? I suppose a surveillance radar on the roof of those embassies wouldn’t go unnoticed.
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True, train as you fight. But this was like a check-ride for the young Captain. ADS-B Out didn’t need to be off.
If we haven't declared war we're not at War. Words mean things.
Especially in this era when this administration seems to be gearing up for military action in domestic spaces when Congress has declared no war.
For how many years was the United States engaged in a declared war, and for how many other years did its military engage in substantial operations?
I'm not excusing the malfeasance of past administrations when highlighting the malfeasance of this administration.
>"We just haven't declared war."
Then we're not at war. Hope this clears things up for you!
By this standard, the US has not been at war since WWII. This is an absurd result, so I conclude that the standard is wrong. Official declarations of war have become decoupled from actually being at war.
At war with Russia, or at war with Ukraine? It's hard to tell these days.