Biden says we need F-16s to oppose the Government

[4g64loser]

Turboprop engines use jet fuel also.

You are correct. This is what I get for being a dunce!

I'm not in aviation at all but I have been told that the fighters need the highest grades of jet fuel whereas the turboprops can run on any jet fuel (as opposed to aviation gasoline like the small single engine prop planes I've mostly been up in). It was explained to me (the non aviation guy) as being similar to a Porsche needing high test whereas a civic or corolla runs on any grade. And that most larger civvy airports that handle freight traffic had at least some.grade of jet fuel.

If that's wrong, please update my knowledge.

 

[AlBeight]

Well Mr FJB, then by our 2nd amendment right, I think we ought to be able to own a personal F16.

With no arm braces, and the machine guns must be stamped or marketed as “heavy barrel”. The overall length must be more than 29ft?

 

[135sohc]

You are correct. This is what I get for being a dunce!

I'm not in aviation at all but I have been told that the fighters need the highest grades of jet fuel whereas the turboprops can run on any jet fuel (as opposed to aviation gasoline like the small single engine prop planes I've mostly been up in). It was explained to me (the non aviation guy) as being similar to a Porsche needing high test whereas a civic or corolla runs on any grade. And that most larger civvy airports that handle freight traffic had at least some.grade of jet fuel.

If that's wrong, please update my knowledge.

Jet fuel is jet fuel for the most part. Between the different types it is not so much an octane rating like gasoline but more so matching the right grade of fuel for the operating environment/conditions.

 

[4g64loser]

Jet fuel is jet fuel for the most part. Between the different types it is not so much an octane rating like gasoline but more so matching the right grade of fuel for the operating environment/conditions.

Ok, that makes sense.

Thank you for that. I'm going to edit my post to avoid confusing people with my stupid.

 

[Inigoes]

The only time we will need F16s to take back the government, is when our votes no longer work!

 

[Slowhand]

Warsaw ghetto disagrees.

Great read https://billstclair.com/Unintended-Consequences.pdf, start P56 for the Warsaw Ghetto

 

[Bob A]

The only time we will need F16s to take back the government, is when our votes no longer work!

So where do I go to pick up my F16? (Though I'd really prefer a Warthog).

 

[trickg]

Ground support, air combat control, and secured airfields to operate from would likely be the larger challenge. If you have a Hadji twin towers plan, then you can ignore all of that.

I think I'd rather have a couple of c130s but I'm not even rated to fly a single engine legally so it's a wish or I'd need to politely ask a knowledgeable pilot to fly them. The ability to move men and material and land/take off from less than perfect runways seems more valuable to me in the mid and long term.

Edited to remove my dunce fuel related comments since 135sohc was kind enough to smarten me up!

A couple of C130 Spectre/Spooky gunships could be wicked until they were taken out by something like an F22 or a missile from so far away they'd never know where it came from.

 

[4g64loser]

A couple of C130 Spectre/Spooky gunships could be wicked until they were taken out by something like an F22 or a missile from so far away they'd never know where it came from.

Those things are scary.

 

[Blacksmith101]

They didn't need fighter jets in Unintended Consequences By John Ross. A book everyone should read.

"Unintended Consequences is a Libertarian propaganda novel serving as a treatise on the history of firearms rights in the United States of America, which has been compared by many public figures to works written by Ayn Rand. Originally published in 1996, the copywrite was preemptively terminated by the author, Mr. John Ross in 2009, as indicated on the more recent softcover editions of the book, which were published beginning in 2010. The text is therefore now in the public domain, though the movie rights to the work are retained by the author."


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[DanseMacabre]

All you need to toppel the President is a set of stairs... or a sandbag... or a bicycle.

Nonsense! President Hairsniffa will flare his nostrils & glide back to his feet.

 

[ras_oscar]

And, back to the OP, nobody at any level of Government or the Military really knows what individual service members will do if ordered to take offensive action against their own communities. There is a reason for the federal prohibition on placing armed US troops on the streets.

 

[JohnnyE]

Every revolt is different. Consider how things transpired for Marcos in the Philippines, and following the fall of the Berlin Wall, how things happened differently in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania, and even under Yeltsin's Russia.