F-105 had 27.5 air to air kills against Migs against 17 losses. The vast majority of the 334 losses was to SAMs and AAA. In a sustained fight the ability to operate in a SAM heavy environment will dictate survival and mission success rates.
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If you read the report the F-35 has a decent high AoA maneuver and is happiest at 20-26 degrees AoA where the control laws are still funky.
Which is why they aren’t in Guam but in Kadena and RAND’s analysis was complete bullshit.
Wow, imagine my surprise that there’s a another “the pentagon are idiots” article on FA.
Of course they do. With multiple warheads. But they still need a DMPI...and a couple dozen or so miles down the road is one in the top 10 of places to nuke.
Wikipedia has a high res version.
Lol...if the Russians nuke the closest target to my house (oh yeah...it most certainly is on the list) with a Topol (800 KT) I probably live...briefly anyway. If the Chinese nuke the closest target to my house with a Dong Feng-5 (3 MT) I don’t and my kids burn.
The end of the end pre-boom is kinda pretty too.
The Indian Navy is buying US-2s so whatever restrictions doesn’t seem to apply anymore.
2nd or 3rd vote for an existing airplane that works (US-2) vs a new one based on an old one with lots of expensive looking question marks.
1. The B-61 “article” was a complete mess and unable to generate a coherent argument beyond “nukes bad”. There are rational reasons to believe that the B-61 Mod 12 is not a great use of money but none were presented in that article. It was not written by Tyler or Michael. The issue can be intelligently argued both for…
Jeez Tyler, that B61 article you reposted was a complete waste of bits. I’d rather read another piece on the F-35 than that idiotic drivel.
Sgt. Alan Brutus, US Army according to the EXIF.
SHIELD uses quinjets and F-35Bs. So they have the same hard on for VTOL as Marines...so Ospreys would likely be their first choice over helos...
And given how well the CH-148 program has gone it seems we made the right choice.
Lol. No.
You mean no other reason except than we haven’t seen this supposed unclass document with the smoking gun that the F-35 sucks...which if existed would be plastered everywhere in it’s totality. Everybody (including popular mechanics) points to same War is Boring blog post. None of it is a second source with a copy of…
The A-10 is 300 knots cruise, 381 knots max and 120 knots stall. It’s not exactly speedy.
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“Who cares how old it is, the A-10 is a damn piece of perfection for the job it needs to do.”