On Mon, 10 May 2004 18:25:42 +0100, Dave Eadsforth wrote:

Air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles are vulnerable to countermeasures
- and you don't know what the enemy might have up his sleeve until he
unveils it; so you might experience disappointment at a vital moment.
Missiles are also somewhat poor for delivering warnings - the shot tends
to go into the target instead of across the bows. And if you want to
bring any vehicle (boat/truck) to a halt instead of annihilating it
cannon are the only option.

I'd add that people have thought guns on aircraft were useless
before, and have ended up re-instating them.

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