Airforce may be be going out of business

[Ken White]

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While a P-3 would probably have no difficulty sinking a "boat," it might have problems with a real surface warship (subs are poor AA platforms, even on the surface).

Depends on how many surface warships are out there and how many Harpoons and / or Mavericks the P3 carries for that mission.

... yes even the oft parsimonious Marine Corps could be, witness the Osprey) and no doubt the COCOMs and few selected agencies (DIA, CIA, etc...).

We can again disagree on the Osprey, good and needed bird IMO -- I'd have listed the Commanche, myself.

P.S.

BTW, Umar, not picking on you and I totally agree with your principal point; the quibbles on the specifics are more an attempt to be fair than to surface minor jiggles or just kibitz. ALL the services have their failings in this regard and ALL the services have some justification for the things they do. That the entire process needs to clean up and speed up, I think we can both agree.

Regards,
Ken