On 11/10/04 7:52, in article , "Tom
Cooper" wrote:

Woody,

SNIP

Sorry, Tom. I should have been more clear--or perhaps I misunderstood the
scope of your posts. I don't have a lot of dispute with either F-5's
fighting MiG-21's or the use of Su-xx's by either side.

I do disagree with the Tomcat stuff.


-- Maj. Ronald Bergquist (USAF) published "The Role of Airpower in the
Iran-Iraq War", while working as research associate on the Airpower Research
Institute, at Maxwell AFB. The first print was in 1982; I've got a copy from
the second print run, published by Air University Press, in 1988.

This was probably the best book to this topic published until 2003.

2. Aside from SPEAR, I've never heard of many of your sources.

OK, here the full data of the last batch of stuff I've got:

- NAVOPINTCEN SUITLAND MD message 250021Z Jul 87
- NAVOPINTCEN SUITLAND MD message 102038Z Apr 88
- NAVOPINTCEN SUITLAND MD message 152005Z Jun 88
- SPEARTIP 014-90, IRAQ FIGHTER-INTERCEPTOR CAPABILITIES
- NAVOPINTCEN memo of 6 Jul 88 (the last would be highly interesting for
anybody researching about the downing of IranAir Airbus by USS Vinncennes).


Subject lines? What are these messages about? I tend to agree with Pechs.
Had the Tomcat been as successful as you claim, I think we would have heard
about it.

As I said before. Claims on all sides during a war tend to be exaggerated.
The way the USN keeps it under control is by tape review in the debrief.
It's amazing what the tapes bring out with regard to veracity.

3. You tend to attempt to baffle with size.

Well, sorry; I do not attempt anything else but to explain. And this can
often not be done within a single sentence.

As soon as I posted, I knew that would be your response. Fair enough.

--Woody