Outmoded air combat...RADAR technology is so advanced there is no need for dogfighting skills....
Sorry there will always be dogfights... I wish you morons go after the social welfare programs rather than the military...
I believe that was the thinking with missles in the ‘60s. As a result the F-4 had no guns. How’d that work out for them? Saying that the Air Force no longer has to worry about dogfights is like saying the Army or Marines no longer have to worry about hand to hand combat.
You have just proved you are too ignorant to comment on this subject.
They said that crap in Vietnam.
Folks, we need these weapon systems, and we are going to need them all.
The F22 is a critical aircraft, it is an Air Superiority Fighter. People say it is a relic of the Cold War. They have not a single damned clue as to what they are talking about. They think that because the USSR went the way of the Dodo, then we don’t need to prepare for an enemy that is actually going to stand up to us with modern hardware and well trained personnel.
We DO need aircraft that can carry ordinance, but we need an aircraft that can control the sky, or our helicopters, Ospreys, F15s, F18s and anything else will be at a severe risk if we have to fight a dedicated, smart opponent who chooses to challenge us in the sky with decent hardware.
Our military has been and is successful because it owns the battlefield in nearly all dimensions, most importantly, the air. We don’t control the air, we can’t fly our helicopters, they are sitting ducks. We can’t fly our E3 Sentrys or JSTAR aircraft. We can’t fly the AC-130 gunships because they would be big fat targets in a contested airspace. All this is predicated on controlling the sky.
We have been lucky to this point. But history shows we won’t be lucky forever, and the way we combat that is by being prepared. It has served us well for fifty years.
But that is all changing, so we better hunker down. There is blood and anguish ahead for all of us, and our military is going to be asked to perform on a shoestring. There will be more blood and anguish ahead for them. In these times, more than ever they will be the “point of the spear”. We should be ashamed as a country for letting this man and his radical ilk get into the machinery of government.
“Outmoded air combat...RADAR technology is so advanced there is no need for dogfighting skills....”
Wrong my friend. Go ask any fighter Pilot if dogfighting skills are needed? It must be since this is what they spend part of their time training for. However, it’s not like WWII. In these dogfights, the enemy aircraft will most likely never see the F-22.
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