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"rnf2" wrote in message ... On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:59:02 GMT, "Stinky Pete" wrote: "Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj" wrote in message ... ville terminale wrote: (David Thornley) wrote in message om... In article , ville terminale wrote: i know US jet is much better. how many of best russian jets could one US jet take on at once? i'll bet the best US jet can shoot down at least 5 of russia's best jets before going down. The quality of the pilot is much more important than the quality of the fighter. The nature of the engagement is also more important than the quality of the fighter. It may well make sense to say that one fighter is better than another, but quantifying it with expected loss ratios is pointless. okay, what if we have two identical pilots with same skills. clones in fact. which would win? I don't know. Why don't you try the experiment and tell us the result His cloning machine isn't working since he ran out of viagra. hmm... What about the raelians? won't they clone him? The "clone" idea is the exact problem. The US has maintained air superiority since WW II where it needed it because the US has invested more in the training of their pilots. The training has been as close to the anticipated reality as possible, has rarely been cut back to save money, and the reality has been carefully researched by our intelligence agencies. We have also spent heavily on the most effective command and control systems in the world. One side effect of all that effective expenditure has been that the aircraft, electronics, and weapons systems have been developed to a really high extent, but the key is that those systems can be more effectively applied in a greater number of environments than the equivalent hardware systems owned by other nations. One real problem with those sources of air effectiveness is that they degrade rapidly when the training is reduced. That makes the training, etc. a great deal more of a critical factor than the nature of the hardware. |
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