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Replying to @MorlockP
I remember reading a Popular Mechanics (I think) article from like 15 years ago about scramjets and how they could insert a special forces squad anywhere on Earth and I was like "Then how do you support them afterward?"
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Replying to @leepavelich @MorlockP
https://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2006-12/semper-fly-marines-space/ … remember reading that (it was in PopSci). I was eight years old and still spent most of the article confused as to how you'd get them back
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things we currently do: * parachute in, at night, HALO USAF Combat Control teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Combat_Control_Team … * have them verify and prep landing fields * then the C-130s roll in, seize the location, secure it * then MORE C-130s roll in ...eventually C-5s, etc >>>
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imagine a hostage situation in the middle of Uzbekistan B-52s / Tomahawk cruise missiles / etc pulverize the local enemy hardpoints, bridges, power plant AC-130 patrols overhead shooting vehicles 5 minutes later a Starship full of Delta Force lands with overwhelming force
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