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China to acquire Backfires?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ina/tu-22m.htm
Two part question; first, do you think that China will actually succeed in it's acquisition attempts regarding the Backfire, and if so, how many would they end up with? Second, what does this mean to the the US? Backfires are a viable threat to the carrier group, and with the F-14/Phoenix weapons systems getting phased out with no real comparable replacement, I can't help but think that the US carrier groups may find themselves in an uncomfortably vulnerable position sometime in the near future. The F-14 and Phoenix missile were designed specifically to counter the long range bomber threat, and when this threat was thought to have disappeared, the AAAM (Phoenix replacement) and the Super-Tomcat upgrades were cancelled. Although there is basically no chance for the F-14 to be brought back to life, should we now possibly be concerned with developing a new long-range missile system for the F-18 and JSF, or do these aircraft already have the capability to defeat the long-range bomber using stealth and smaller, medium range weapons? |
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