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 Posted: Dec 01, 2012 - 06:53 AM
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huggy wrote:
count_to_10 wrote:
What does the one have to do with the other?
Yeah, neurotech,... you lost me on your post.
I was referring to the comment from sketch22.
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I'd bet that the F-22 needs to see combat and produce some highly effective results before ever being written in a positive light in the history books. Hardly anyone outside the military (including office holders) cares about Red Flag simulated kill ratios and training performance.
I disagree that "office holders" don't care about Red Flag simulated kill ratios, because when a non-stealth F-16 gets shot down, yeah, the President and the Pentagon take notice. |
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Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 08:04 AM
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neurotech wrote:
I disagree that "office holders" don't care about Red Flag simulated kill ratios, because when a non-stealth F-16 gets shot down, yeah, the President and the Pentagon take notice.
What are you talking about?
And I still have no idea what your point is on your post about O'Grady meeting the President. |
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Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 07:57 PM
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huggy wrote:
neurotech wrote:
I disagree that "office holders" don't care about Red Flag simulated kill ratios, because when a non-stealth F-16 gets shot down, yeah, the President and the Pentagon take notice.
What are you talking about?
And I still have no idea what your point is on your post about O'Grady meeting the President.
There is always the perception that that the civilian leadership doesn't understand the military. Sometimes its more deserved than other times. The F-22 is quite an expensive aircraft, substantially due to political limit on production, but is unquestionably a 5th gen Air Superiority fighter, with dramatically improved survivability. The F-35 will also be a great 5th gen aircraft, despite its high price tag.
The 1995 F-16 shootdown of Capt. O'Grady wouldn't have happened if he'd been flying a F-35 with EODAS. Simple as that, The "selective" use of air defense radar, resulted in the F-16 having no RWR indication on launch. I don't think there has been many incident since then of a US/NATO jet being shot down at high altitude by a SAM. The F-117 pilot that went down was recovered relatively quickly.
Because of the length of time (6 days) O'Grady was down in hostile territory, that event was way more "noticeable" for civilian leaders, than say the F-15 that crashed in a flat spin (not shot down!) in Libya where they rescued the crew fairly quickly as well, and doesn't receive the same attention.
Congress might grumble at the cost of a F-35, but the bottom line is that if US aviators get shot down in older jets, the President and Congress will take notice. |
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