No they were defintely for you..
Rudeboy1
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Have a look at the ammo capacity of any modern fighter. Most have a similar amount. Certainly the Su-27 derivatives and Typhoon carry the same. And I’d rather have 180 rounds of 25-30mm cannon shells than the 480 20mm in the F-22 as the 20mm shell is really not much use for anything with a dreadful trajectory, range…
Given that the AIM-54 didn’t work until the mid-late 80's and the AWG-9 was very unreliable you’re not far wrong...
Errrrr. Yes we can.
Unfortunately it seems no-one took the job....
Peak potential will only be when all Block 4 stages are complete. Probably around 2026/27.
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“The problem with the F-35A is that its not meant to be a fighter, and with a missile bay that can only carry 4 missiles, and no gun pod..”
Spot.On.
That will be autonomy Kurdish style...which is near independence. Either way Assad’s writ won’t run there.
Its perfect at the moment. Iran, Assadist Syria, Hezbollah and Russia fighting it out with Jihadis, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar.....all while the oil price tumbles.
Even if Assad wins, he can’t get the Kurd areas back, or for that matter suppress the inevitable insurgency in non-government areas.
Exactly.
Wow.
Oman is fairly sane. It really is very close to the West. They are not Saudi Arabia.
It’s a pity they didn’t develop this a little further. Apparently it had massively superior performance in the cruise..
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Heres a good example. RAF Mert team in Afghanistan...the soldier doesn’t hang around...
I remember the stories of ‘Meals Rejected by Ethiopians’ at the time.
I don’t recall any food and water infrastucture being hit. Water pumping stations, sewage treatment and dams were no targeted at any point.
To be honest there weren’t many people in the UK who understood the difference, bit of a historical quirk. It was only a comparatively small geographic area, but conversely one of the busiest.