slap wrote:
Verily, Uncle Bob must be the most popp-yue-larr man on every ACC base these days.Norfolk, don't worry to much Uncle Bob (SEDEF Robert Gates) was a Missile man when he was in the Air Force so he understands what is going on.
I am reliably informed that pilots exhibit a rather strong aversion towards that last bit...Air power is guided missiles!!! launched from airframes (any will do) until we get something better. With that in mind it is a bad move to put alot of money in Super Dupper Airframes. Like I have said many times before all you need is a platform to launch a missile. Only the warhead needs to get to the target not the entire airframe
Indeed Sven; sadly though, you're not head of the USAF, and your Luftwaffe roots might just serve as the spark for a little nostalgia in certain quarters about the way it was back in the day when the USAAF actually had to face a more or less peer competitor. As you and Wayne point out, the Air Force has allowed tech to more or less eclipse leadership and tactics.If I was head of the U.S.A.F., I'd much less care about the F-22 than about new, low munition cost (lower than a Stinger shot) battlefield air defenses.
Ken! Your Toad origins are showing here!Having been bombed and strafed, I'm all for air superiority -- easier to keep your coffee hot...(there's already far too many of them here as it is, and I just don't have enough mix for enough Molotovs to, uh, handle them all...
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