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To: Southack
What if a cheap sub-orbital fighter is meant to merely give the Israelis flying American fighter aircraft grief...launched from nearby Iran?

If it can't loiter and it can't dogfight, then it can't cause your undefined "grief." So what are these fighters going to do, zoom up into the atmosphere, launch a couple of long-range missiles as they go by, then zoom back home? What will that do to stop Israeli (or American, for that matter) CAS? A little jamming, some chaff and flares, dive for the deck, and then when the rocket-fighters are zooming back home, go back to your mission. That's hardly air superiority.

Why don't you research the Me-262 and its use in WWII before you start fantasizing about your rocket planes. Sure, the P-51's couldn't catch them, but they flew fast and straight (one of the consequences of flying fast) and made very little impact on Allied Air. Other than attacking bombers, the Me-262 was completely ineffective in any role versus Allied CAP or CAS... just like your rocket-planes would be...

140 posted on 07/08/2004 8:59:53 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) ("Let them hate, so long as they fear" -- Roman Imperial Motto)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
"Other than attacking bombers, the Me-262 was completely ineffective in any role versus Allied CAP or CAS... just like your rocket-planes would be..."

The ME-262 ran into the same problem as did the German Tiger II tank; it's hyper-expensive price made it too difficult to build enough of them to win against our overwhelming numbers.

...a problem which I'd prefer to avoid with our current over-budget F-22.

147 posted on 07/08/2004 9:23:50 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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