"Douglas Eagleson" wrote in message
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No the concept of hounding the honest commenter is your problem. Not
mine.

All the airframe needs to perform over mach 1 is a little control work.

I think that the most adequate and suitable response I can achieve is.....

"Bull-f*cking-****!"

At speeds slightly above Mach .8, the Warthog will begin to shed some
serious components.



So the guy that was the original poster heard me say. I like the idea
of making the
A-10 a coverage defensive fighter.

Let's see, in that role, the A6, the S3 or even the jaunty B73 series would
be far better, but still not good enough, for the mission parameters you're
proposing simply don't fir into the fleet air defense priorities, no more so
than would the A10 serve to provide CAP over the Bush ranch on Prairie
Chapel Road, a few miles over the ridgeline from me or over the White House.
F16s and F15s are simply several magnitudes more suitable.

And you get to listen again.

A radar emitting fighter is a sitting duck one, so they are there to
shoot first.

.....and it's with an outlandish statement like the sentence above that
you've moved our mutual evaluation of your capacity from the "absurb and
trivial dilletante" to "silly twit in many fathoms over his head". You do
understand that for better or worse, aircraft involved in the intercept role
can hardly avoid the occasional shining of their gadgets. EMCON is a great
thing, but unsuited to aspects of air to air warfare beyond "dogfights", the
last freakin' envelope into which to introduce clumsy, hulking Warthogs.

Read, learn and ask, and the day may come when your posts are received with
something better than titters, guffaws snorts or the explosion of coffee
across keyboards. Should you choose otherwise, the staff recommends that
you not let the door strike you upon the ass as you exit.


TMO