Of course, should a war come along where the gun
demonstrates
its utility on a regular (as opposed to occasional) basis, the pendulum
may
swing back the other way again.

Well, AFAIK there has been no general consensus regarding deleting the gun
armament, and everyone continues to do so. If there was such a feeling, we
would expect customers to be deleting them left and right as a weight
saving
and space creating measure (adding that big spine to the Block 60 F-16's
indicates that volume usage is growing critical with that design), but we
have not seen this happen.

Brooks


Guy

The only fighter that needs a gun is the Warthog. All others, waste of time
and weight post Cold War.
As far as the F-15 strafing runs in Afghanistan, that would almost certainly
have to be Strike and not Air Superiority Eagles.