Re: USAF buying new F-15s
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 1:01 pm
Relative to the Nav, totally different mission, which is the key point, (and muddled by me mangling the quote, it should say "to do what we want" vice "carrier capable.)
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Relative to the Nav, totally different mission, which is the key point, (and muddled by me mangling the quote, it should say "to do what we want" vice "carrier capable.)
It's well past time to stop putting lipstick on the Hawg.Quite frankly, we pulled the A-10s back from going up around the Republican Guard and kept them on Iraq's (less formidable) front-line units. That's line if you have a force that allows you to do that. In this case, we had F-16s to go after the Republican Guard.
Q: At what point did you do that?
A: I think I had fourteen airplanes sitting on the ramp having battle damage repaired, and I lost two A- 10s in one day [February 15], and I said, "I've had enough of this." It was when we really started to go after the Republican Guard.
Initially, much of the air assets were devoted to strategic targets, to make sure we got those down, while we were also hitting the frontline forces. As we killed off the research and development stuff-storage, those kinds of targets-we brought more and more assets into the Kuwait Theater of Operation. We really started heating the battle up in the KTO.
Netpackrat wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:38 am You wanna show us on the doll where the A-10 touched you?
/hijack/Well, the A-3 Skywarrior was carrier launched and had a takeoff weight of something like 82-84K lbs (within the same range as a standard loadout for the Aardvark), with half the thrust/weight ratio of the F-111.
So if we can make that work, why not an improved F-111?
Right in the prostate while I was balls deep in your mom.Netpackrat wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:38 am You wanna show us on the doll where the A-10 touched you?