i too
am of iranian descent
as am I
this one goes out to anon
In a 2012 Red Flag exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, two German Eurofighter Typhoons claimed notional “kills” against U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors in within-visual-range dogfights — a story still recycled in social media circles as evidence the Raptor isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The full context tells a different story: the F-22s were flying with external fuel tanks that compromised their stealth, the engagement parameters were rigidly constrained to close-range dogfighting, and the F-22 unit completed 80 missions at the same event with what the Air Force described as “a very high mission success rate.” German Major Marco Gumbrecht — one of the pilots who scored the “kills” — admitted afterward that his Typhoons couldn’t get within 20 miles of an F-22 in realistic combat parameters; his colleague Col. Andreas Pfeiffer called the F-22’s long-range capabilities “overwhelming.”
peter persian
Don't look back, ooh, a new day is breakin'
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind, ooh, where I get taken
The road is callin', today is the day
I can see, it took so long just to realize
I'm much too strong not to compromise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around
Oh, yes, I will
wtf