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Thursday, December 10, 2009
This alone is an impeachable offense
8 comments:
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Bob Hawkins said...
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The F-15's record in air-to-air combat is something like 114 kills to zero losses. It was by far the most dominant air-superiority fighter ever flown, until the F-22.
But, as we have seen so many times, political correctness trumps everything. I just pray that we never have to find out what it's like to fight without air superiority. -
12/10/09, 12:17 PM
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Mile 66 said...
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There ya go! They shut it down because it's like clubbing baby seals!
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12/10/09, 12:26 PM
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Anonymous said...
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What's even worse, we're now committed to the under range, under payload, overweight, over budget, under capable jack-of-all-trades F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It won't do what the Harrier does as well as the Harrier, it won't do what the F-15 does as well as the F-15, it won't do what the F-16 and F/A-18 do as well as those platforms, it lost every competition with the F-22, but it costs less per unit than the F-22 and it does keep the eurotrash defense industries employed very nicely, thank you.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
12/10/09, 4:25 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Yup - of all the 6,305 reasons to hate Obama's guts, this is in the top 5.
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12/10/09, 5:07 PM
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Anonymous said...
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F-35 sounds like an M-16 with wings...
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12/10/09, 5:48 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Not meaning to pick a fight here, because I do understand what Bob Hawkins was saying, but we already have learned what it's like to fight without air superiority:
Pearl Harbor.
Japanese invasion of Phillipine Islands.
Wake Island.
A good bit of the Guadalcanal campaign.
Much of the bomber campaign in Europe.
It might more accurately be said, we hope we never have to RE-LIVE what it's like. Not that O'Bambi gives a shit. He'd just say it was God's will, or Bush's fault.
H
p.s., I really didn't mean that about our Commander in Chief, any other way than just exactly how I said it. -
12/10/09, 6:08 PM
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Anonymous said...
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The up n coming crop of UAVs will render the fighters obsolete.
Today, they can build a UAV that will out climb, out turn, go faster than and fly longer on station than any manned plane.
Superior (to the Mark I Eyeball) sensors and equivalent armament loads can be achieved very easily.
For a fraction of the cost of one manned plane, several UAVs can be fielded.
Current cost of F35 is pegged at $95 MILLION per copy!
A small savvy country could easily field a fleet of superior UAVs and dominate the airspace over the next battlefield.
The USAF is run by pilots, who HATE the idea of UAVs, which is why the USAF is gonna get it's ass handed to it by the Army and Navy unless they smarten up PDQ.
Not that the current political gang used this logic, of course.
This was just a pacifist insanity move. -
12/11/09, 6:56 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Anon 12/11/09 6:56 AM
What happens when the GPS thingies circling the planet get splatted by all those reject ball bearings or pieces of the satellite exploded by "somebody"? What happens to all those ships, planes and UAVs when the satellites all die? EMF should work out there, too.
What's the Plan B? They have[or will] taken down LORAN. What happens when GPS is useless? Sextant, chronometer and tables... Not so good for pilots on a mission.
These 'rons are putting all their eggs in one basket. Oh, wait, the second weak spot is using satellites to communicate with the UAVs... Satellites all have decaying orbits. What is the plan, Stan, to replace them as they fall or fail?
tomw -
12/11/09, 9:30 AM
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