The bolding is mine. I think these birds are going to really take care of business.
1 posted on
02/25/2007 3:25:22 PM PST by
Spruce
To: Spruce
"The thing denies your ability to put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it through the canopy," COOL!
To: Spruce
If you can not see it, you can not kill it.
3 posted on
02/25/2007 3:30:02 PM PST by
cpdiii
(Pharmacist, Pilot, Geologist, Oil Field Trash and proud of it.)
To: Spruce
The Ruskies are geniuses when it comes to aviation design. We can't ever relax.
4 posted on
02/25/2007 3:30:23 PM PST by
Ironclad
(O Tempora! O Mores!)
To: Spruce
To: Spruce
Great, but will they stop a raghead planting an garage door opener triggered IED?
10 posted on
02/25/2007 3:48:56 PM PST by
zarf
(Her hair was of a dank yellow, and fell over her temples like sauerkraut......)
To: Spruce
It still takes a CIC who is willing to use them!!!
13 posted on
02/25/2007 3:52:25 PM PST by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Spruce
Unclear, but of some import; a foreign "F-15 pilot" is mentioned, but was he flying that or one of the birds mentioned end of article?
Not down on the Raptor, I hear wonderful things about it. Still, the closer our perception of its ability v whatever, the more successful our sorties.
16 posted on
02/25/2007 3:56:53 PM PST by
barkeep
(Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
To: Spruce
24 posted on
02/25/2007 4:22:31 PM PST by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: Spruce
I flew 'red' one week of this Red Flag, with the aggressors quoted in this article.
I cannot comment on specific tactics, but I will tell you that by the middle of the Red Flag the Raptor guys were being asked to throttle back a little bit. The folks in charge of training had come to the conclusion that, due to the Raptors lethality, the remaining blue fighters were not getting sufficient training.
38 posted on
02/25/2007 4:44:56 PM PST by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Spruce
"The thing denies your ability to put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it through the canopy,"Coming soon, gunsights.
To: Spruce
we need to build 5000 of them
50 posted on
02/25/2007 5:10:57 PM PST by
wildcatf4f3
(Find out what brand the Ethiopians are drinking and send a case to all my generals.)
To: Spruce
Beware the "golden BB"...bump
68 posted on
02/25/2007 6:20:00 PM PST by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: Spruce
I saw the Red Flag IMAX film. Wow! That's a heck of an exercise. Very cool. Awesome pilots, etc.
79 posted on
02/25/2007 7:45:13 PM PST by
Spiff
(Rudy Giuliani Quote (NY Post, 1996) "Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.")
To: Spruce
Dang! They can't get a lock on it? Sweet!
83 posted on
02/25/2007 7:52:25 PM PST by
LibKill
(ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
To: rwgal
88 posted on
02/25/2007 8:23:44 PM PST by
bkwells
(Liberals=Hypocrites)
To: Spruce
They should toss out the "tactics and techniques of potential adversaries" and just try to figure out what WILL work against an aeroplane that you can't lock on to...
Come to think of it, though, if he could see it through his canopy, why couldn't he bag it with an all aspect heat seeker?
To: Spruce
"The thing denies your ability to put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it through the canopy,"
That's unreal!
104 posted on
02/26/2007 9:28:27 AM PST by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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