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LOL you call:
"expeditionary air operations (FW and RW) ashore, as demonstrated in DS, OEF and OIF. TACAIR operations from amphibious shipping. assault support from amphibious shipping or from expeditionary locations ashore?" anything but yada yada gobbledygook? You have just described a good mission for an air/sea rescue helicoptor! Please though, don't try again, you are wasting everyone's time. "Frijoles" wrote in message thlink.net... Your question was (quote) "Can anyone conjure a F-35B Marine job that could not be none by the navy?" The question was answered with specific operational capabilities (exercised in combat operations) that the Navy does not possess. You are obviously ignorant of the process by which "requirements" are generated and validated. You are obviously ignorant of how procurement #s are generated. You are ignorant of the numbers of aircraft resident in the USMC TACAIR inventory, and you are ignorant of how they are employed -- to wit, " I cannot get a good picture of a mission where the marines would need 400+ of them with all the support for them but still not have a decent runway!" Come back with some intelligent questions after you've done some research. "puttster" wrote in message om... yes, please do, but not with politispeak generalities. Instead, give me the best one practical example of the ideal mission as the perfect reason why the Marines would need to order 400+ F-35B's. "Frijoles" wrote in message hlink.net... No need to conjure. Try expeditionary air operations (FW and RW) ashore, as demonstrated in DS, OEF and OIF. TACAIR operations from amphibious shipping. How about assault support from amphibious shipping or from expeditionary locations ashore? Should I go on? "puttster" wrote in message om... Chad Irby wrote in message . com... In article , (puttster) wrote: Then let me ask why the Marines need the V/Stol capability. I cannot get a good picture of a mission where the marines would need 400+ of them with all the support for them but still not have a decent runway! Why are you limiting the situation to needing 400+ at once? The situation is more like "we need a dozen for this small brushfire war in a place where there are no good airstrips," or we need to put a small landing force in at this area, and the bad guys have a few planes, so we need a little fighter cover from the LHDs." If there are no good airstrips how would the marines get their gas, bombs, food, and all the other support? How (why?) were their Harriers used in Iraq? To support Marine actions on the ground, without having to go through the other services as much. They've been flying off of the USS Bonhomme Richard. Overall, Iraq hasn't been a good test of what we'd need the Harrier for. |
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