The Harrier never could fulfill its mission of operating in a combat environment in a forward area because it simply could not land in the middle of nowhere near a FOB or at the time an LP/OP and had to fly from an airfield no different than any standard jet. It had to take off and land like the zoomers you dislike because if it did not it could not carry a large enough payload to support ground forces.
Unlike you I was in the Corps and working in NAVAIR during the debate to keep Harriers or stick with legacy airframes until the F-18 was operational. Obviously you did not read the link I sent you. Either you are just looking for an argument or you are just a dumbass.
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled US admits F-35 failed to replace F-16 as planned, needs new fighter jet, OldGoatCPO wrote:
As Sailor not a wannabe, no Navy Ships is a FOB as no Navy ship is a “base.” Maybe in some war video game you played but not in the real Navy. Duhh!
***Take a fricken writing class. Your sentences do not make sense.
The Harrier never could fulfill its mission of operating in a combat environment in a forward area because it simply could not land in the middle of nowhere near a FOB or at the time an LP/OP and had to fly from an airfield no different than any standard jet.
***Complete bullshiite. A FOB was established at Port San Carlos during the Falklands crisis and the Harrier operated exactly as it was designed to do, knocking off a full hour off the round trip to the carriers.
It had to take off and land like the zoomers you dislike because if it did not it could not carry a large enough payload to support ground forces.
***Dude. It did that because it COULD do that. It’s not like A4s could have taken off vertically once the runway was knocked out, like as happened in Kuwait in the next decade.
Unlike you I was in the Corps
***Playing the elitist card.
and working in NAVAIR during the debate to keep Harriers or stick with legacy airframes until the F-18 was operational.
***And lucky for us, there were no surprise attacks against airfields at the time such as happened to Kuwait GW1 or Egypt 1967.
Obviously you did not read the link I sent you. Either you are just looking for an argument or you are just a dumbass.
***Either you are just a dumb fighter jock or a dumbass.