"Douglas Eagleson" wrote:

:No the concept of hounding the honest commenter is your problem. Not
:mine.

The concept of pointing out the ignorance of the commenter is mine.

:All the airframe needs to perform over mach 1 is a little control work.

Hogwash. All the airframe needs to perform over Mach 1 is a total
redesign so as to prevent little details like the wings and empennage
departing the airframe, terminating in uncontrolled intersection with
terrain.

:So the guy that was the original poster heard me say. I like the idea
f making the A-10 a coverage defensive fighter.

And once you do the redesign and rebuilt to get it over Mach 1 without
losing pieces, now you need to beef it up so that it can take cats and
traps without leaving the frame strewn across the deck.

Then you get to figure out how to get fuel and weapons into your
entirely new airplane.

:And you get to listen again.
:
:A radar emitting fighter is a sitting duck one, so they are there to
:shoot first.

A non-radar emitting fighter can't shoot until it's practically up
your ass.

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"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson