{"id":85334,"date":"2022-09-05T22:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85334"},"modified":"2022-09-05T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:28:48","slug":"85334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85334","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF<br \/>\nThe enemy always gets a vote \u2013 and Biden just announced that his enemy is tens of millions of us patriotic citizens. So, in the great AR-15 vs. F-15 hypothetical \u2013 and pray it stays hypothetical despite the stupidity of our ruling caste \u2013 the smart money is on the numbers. But the truly smart course of action is to not to even go down this road, to re-embrace our Constitution and to stop trying to be butch in order to get some Twitter love from the pinkos. Maybe this ridiculous stooge masquerading as our president should stop running his fool mouth threatening to slaughter other Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/09\/05\/f15-vs-ar15-bet-on-the-guys-with-the-guns-n2612609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F-15 vs. AR-15? Bet on the Guys With the Guns<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Father of the Year and alleged President Joe Biden is busy trying to rile up his base of weirdos, adjunct professors, gender studies grads, government timeservers, sexually unsatisfied wine women and their sexually unsatisfying life partners. That\u2019s why Dork Brandon pulled one of my favorites out of his Big Duffel Bag O\u2019 Hack Cliches, the old \u201cYour puny guns are no match against the awesome power of the US military which I will use to kill you for dissenting!\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Okay, fine. Let\u2019s go over this again for the knuckleheads who think that they prevail if they step outside the \u201cuse your words\u201d paradigm they grew up with in their sissy private schools. You lose if you idiots provoke a real civil conflict \u2013 not the kind of low-intensity urban conflict of the Seventies where you cheered on the Weathermen and Cinque\u2019s SLA, and not the kind where a bunch of mutants riot under the protection of leftist municipal governments in leftist municipalities, but a real one. One where the people you want to crush under your Birkenstocks fight back. With AR-15s.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I discuss this in great detail in my new non-fiction book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/07\/12\/excerpt-well-be-back-n2610101\">We\u2019ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America<\/a>, and not from the perspective of half-wit daughter-showering goofs but from the real down and dirty of how this terrible course of events would actually unspool. And it would go poorly for a largely unarmed, untrained, urban-centered population of smug geebos whose primary weapon system is a snarky tweet.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The doddering moron shared his tactical insights with his audience at a rally in Pennsylvania for Heart Attack Shrek. He said, thinking he was super-clever, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1564706079036116994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1564706079036116994%7Ctwgr%5Ea43c2493b626590c5092212590a0406c32fc7e7c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fbiden-president-gun-control-rights-f15-jet-afghanistan-pennsylvania-viral-comments-1738356\">For those brave right-wing Americans&#8230; if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something little more than a gun.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hmmmm, but do they? Really?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grandpa Badfinger\u2019s premise is that all you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-shocks-viewers-hellish-red-background-polarizing-speech\">tens of millions of semi-fascists out there<\/a>\u00a0with your AR-15s would have no shot stopping the woke military, which would eagerly crush you with their potent force package of F-15s and esoteric pronouns. It is a flawed premise on more grounds than one column can cover (hence my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/07\/12\/excerpt-well-be-back-n2610101\">book<\/a>), but we need to focus and that means we will need to overlook some important questions. These important questions include:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2013 Why do you imagine your sorry band of socialist creeps who treat the Constitution like Jerry Nadler treats his boxers constitutes \u201cthe country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2013 The useless senior officer corps aside, why do you believe the normals who make up the vast majority of America\u2019s combat forces will gleefully butcher their friends and family for the amusement of a bunch of Chardonnay-swilling blue checks?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2013 Have you ever heard of Afghanistan?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s focus on his key sound bite. Gun vs. Jets\u2026who ya got?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m putting my money on the guns. You dumb progressives can go for the jets and the points.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, let\u2019s start raising the kind of facts that tend to undermine the soundbite that launched a thousand MSNBCgasms.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">First up, what does a gun do? What does a fighter-bomber do?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well, a gun gives an individual soldier \u2013 and that\u2019s what civilian freedom fighters would be \u2013 the ability to dominate the space on the ground around them out to a couple hundred meters of open territory (let\u2019s not argue about maximum effective ranges, or the fact that civilians have a lot of weapons that outrange the 5.56mm weapons systems currently used by the military \u2013 a weapon system whose bullets Mr. 10% Off The Top thinks fly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/president-biden-botches-ar-15-facts-while-stumping-against-gun-violence-pennsylvania\">five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun<\/a>\u201d). In other words, a gun controls space on the ground. Coincidentally, the ground happens to be where people live.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A jet fighter dominates air space and keeps other planes away. Few people actually live in the air. Now, a jet fighter bomber like the F-15 can drop bombs on the enemy \u2013 which is, according to Crusty, us freedom-loving American citizens. Of course, this kind of tactical employment works to support guys on the ground dominating terrain with guns. Planes don\u2019t hold territory; they help soldiers hold territory. So, it\u2019s an apples and oranges thing at the threshold, which is appropriate since the whole discussion Slow Joe began is pretty much Fruit Loops.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Biden assumes he\u2019s got soldiers to support with his jets. How many? Who knows? Some. But lots of colonels and generals, the kind who add (he\/him) or (zip\/zap) to their official signature blocks \u2013 would salute and carry out order to kill other Americans. Hey, maybe they can win this war and finally get one in the \u201cWin\u201d column after three decades! They\u2019re due!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But the problem for them is quantity. There are tens of millions of American patriots with guns, AR-15s being only one color in the rainbow of freedom-defending firearms. Real diversity is 5.56mm alongside 7.62mm and .30-06 and 12 gauge and .45 and others, all firing together for a brighter tomorrow. So, there better be a lot of airplanes to balance out millions of patriots.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Um, how many fighter-bombers do we have anyway?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well, let\u2019s give America\u2019s Greatest Matlock Superfan the benefit of the doubt and include all types of fighter-bombers \u2013 F-25s, F-16s, F-18s, F-35s and even A-10s. Let\u2019s see \u2013 there are about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/239454\/total-number-of-fighters-and-bombers-in-the-us-air-force-by-type\/\">1750 planes for the Air Force<\/a>, about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/239454\/total-number-of-fighters-and-bombers-in-the-us-air-force-by-type\/\">1100 planes for the Navy<\/a>, and maybe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdmma.org\/united-states-marine-corps-aviation.php\">300 for the Marines<\/a>, so call it 3150 aircraft. Okay, where are they? You have to have them here in America if you want to kill Americans for refusing to obey, so how many are in the continental United States and available for Hunter\u2019s Dad\u2019s open season on dissidents?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Call it two-thirds. We have lots of planes forward deployed \u2013 Europe, Asia, on ships. He\u2019s got about 2000 aircraft to use to kill other Americans \u2013 that\u2019s what he was saying, so we\u2019ll take him at his slurred, semi-coherent word. Add maybe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAVs_in_the_U.S._military\">another 400 combat drones in the USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, there\u2019s a thing called the OR Rate \u2013 operational readiness. That\u2019s the percentage of planes that are ready to go at a given time. Planes need maintenance. They break, and even routine use requires massive upkeep efforts. And parts can be hard to get, especially when you are spending all your money on woke nonsense. What\u2019s the real OR Rate? I don\u2019t know \u2013 it\u2019s probably classified and, as we know, today exposing classified material is bad and we can\u2019t wait for it to go back to being A-OK when Hillary does it again, or when someone leaks something classified to the NYT or WaPo and they publish it. Let\u2019s assume 75% \u2013 that loud laughing you just heard is military aviation professionals scoffing at a consistent 75% OR Rate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This means President Gumby has 1500 planes and 300 drones to suppress those millions of dissenters. Hey, that\u2019s 36 aircraft a state!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s still a lot of platforms and they can still do a lot of damage \u2013 assuming there are enough bombs stored in our bunkers (The Hellfire missile stocks would vanish quickly and aren\u2019t those made in Florida? Awkward!). Can that fleet of aircraft do enough damage to deter and defeat a few million red rebels? How does one say \u201cI am unconvinced\u201d in Pashto?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To get a better result in America than in Afghanistan, The Great Unifier would have to dramatically increase the firepower used \u2013 again, on Americans on American soil. You can bet the rules of engagement on Republicans would be a lot looser than the ones on the jihadis. But he forgets that the guys with the AR-15s get a say regarding those F-15s.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wait, how does an AR-15 defeat an F-15? You can\u2019t really shoot it down. No, but you can shoot it up on the ground. And you can ambush its logistics. And the pilots \u2013 well, the old Irish Republican Army (not the later, communist one) a century ago was getting clobbered by a bunch of Scotland Yard detectives in Dublin sent over from London, so they surveilled the coppers and one morning launched a coordinated operation to assassinate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/michael-collins-bloody-sunday\">the whole lot of them<\/a>. Remember, pilots (including drone jockeys) do not grow on trees. It\u2019s no secret, except to dumb people, that the weak point in a military machine is the meat-sack in the driver\u2019s seat. And don\u2019t imagine the people having bombs dropped on them are going to be nice to the guys dropping the bombs on them and their families \u2013 or to Biden\u2019s pilots\u2019 families. When you okay dropping JDAMs on civilians, you don\u2019t get to dictate payback.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The enemy always gets a vote \u2013 and Biden just announced that his enemy is tens of millions of us patriotic citizens. So, in the great AR-15 vs. F-15 hypothetical \u2013 and pray it stays hypothetical despite the stupidity of our ruling caste \u2013 the smart money is on the numbers. But the truly smart course of action is to not to even go down this road, to re-embrace our Constitution and to stop trying to be butch in order to get some Twitter love from the pinkos. Maybe this ridiculous stooge masquerading as our president should stop running his fool mouth threatening to slaughter other Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF The enemy always gets a vote \u2013 and Biden just announced that his enemy is tens of millions of us patriotic citizens. So, in the great AR-15 vs. F-15 hypothetical \u2013 and pray it stays hypothetical despite the stupidity of our ruling caste \u2013 the smart money is on the numbers. 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