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On Mar 7, 4:56*am, Andrew Swallow wrote:
frank wrote: On Mar 5, 8:52 pm, 150flivver wrote: On Mar 5, 6:35 pm, Richard wrote: On Mar 5, 12:39 pm, "Ray O'Hara" wrote: "Ed Rasimus" wrote in message m... On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:10:15 -0500, "Ray O'Hara" wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/...an_air_superio... Vanishing American Air Superiority what a load of ****. That's a difficult argument to refute. Penetrating analysis at its finest. What parts? Spit/Hurricane? Sabre/Thunderjet? Century series? Boyd and hi/lo mix? You've given us so much to think about Ray. what better planes being planned never mind actually being built by anybody else. the points the author makes are false strawman types. the Brits on 1940 didn't need two types, they needed more spits, they were building them. maybe you can say we have "hurricanes" now but who is building 109s? if there were no 109s then the Hurricane would have ruled the sky. technology is moving past the manned fighter. building the most advanced manned fighter now would be akin to building the most advanced bi-plane in 1935. what we have is better now than what others have now, building a hugely expensive "better" plane that will be obsolete in short order is a waste Worse. *Given the cost of the airframe, maintenance, crew training and support vs Drones...its more like bldg BB in 1935 instead of carriers.. Aren't y'all making quite a leap saying UAVs have surpassed manned fighters when to my knowledge, not a single UAV has ever successfully engaged a manned fighter. *Suddenly manned fighters are obsolete. There's a bit of difference between firing a hellfire or dropping a GBU on an unsuspecting pickup truck and attacking an IADS. *UAVs may be useful weapons but they hardly are close to having the speed, range, flexibility or firepower of a manned aircraft. Not to mention I'd trust Ed on scene far more than some throttle jockey watching screens at Nellis. Or Yeager. I've heard this we can do it unmanned before. Some stuff, maybe. Dumping manned fighters for UAVs. Stupidity. And you know what, when we need manned fighters in the future, its not a matter of going to wal mart and taking 2 of them. The next successful fighter may be a stand-off launcher of missiles that can be guided to their incoming target by the weapons officer. Andrew Swallow Tell me now what pilot would allow himself to be portrayed as the cab driver delivering the gunman to to the target? |
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