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Ed Majden wrote in message ..
snip I am ex-air force and the days of a manned fighter to the disgust of hot shot pilots is drawing to an end. The un-manned fighter will before long take over these tasks according to some. The Raptor will probably be the last U.S. manned fighter. Man can't handle the stresses placed on him in modern airframes so un-manned versions will probably dominate in the future. I shouldn't have to say more...Manned combat aircraft will continue for two reasons, one political, and the other biological if you will. Politically they need a realtime human in the loop, and moreover, war being the great sport of nations, the raison d'etre of the fighter is largely to give the knight a mount for the jousting. Missiles don't really require a high-G platform and if laser weapons replace guns, they'll be turreted. __________________________________________________ _______________ Putting MM on the dime would serve a lot of purposes. It would displace the devious FDR, send a signal to the Islamist world, make the currency more attractive, and be a thorn in the ass to the Kennedy Family, to name four good ones |
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t_mark wrote:
We did it before - in fact it was way ahead of its time. But the chicken-**** Conservative government that was in power at the time caved to US pressures to scrap the Arrow. Oh good christ, not the ****ing Arrow again. My sentiments exactly. I swear, I don't think I know of any country with as many angry, inferiority-complex afflicted people as Canada seems to harbor. Neither do I, and I live in Canada. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:58:58 +0000, Andrew Chaplin wrote:
of any country with as many angry, inferiority-complex afflicted people as Canada seems to harbor. Its not an inferiority complex. It just evokes nostalgia. Its much like an old timer who reminisces about the Spitfire he flew in WWII. |
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