OPTEMPO

BySteeljawscribe

So, um Scribe — been a little lax in posting this past few weeks, eh? What gives?
Well, a little bit of:

Mix in a lot of:

And of course, all from the AO viewpoint:

 So yea, been a bit busy with the necessary stuff, but that said have been scribbling offline in the wee hours and will have a few things up later this week.  Amongst which include a look almost one year later at the Maritime Strategy and some discussion on the upcoming NOC and a look at one of the last of the truly fast (and really good looking) jets in the inventory before all manner of stuff started getting hung on ’em and their mission changed (Sid, you’ll relate).

 

Meantime – whinefest over, back to the galleys

– SJS

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