[ASOC]

LOL - good pun

The Zero was a low-wing design, constructed of a lightweight aluminum alloy named “Extra-Super Duraluminum (ESD)”, with the exception of fabric-covered rudder and elevators. The aircraft’s lightweight construction helped it achieve the performance goals specified by the IJN. However, the severe limits on weight ensured that the new fighter also lacked armor and self-sealing fuel tanks.

Japs lost a plane, they could replace it in under a month, the pilot, 23 years.

The US lost a place, it was replaced in a day, the pilot fished out of the drink and back in the game.

Recipe for disaster.

[myknowledge]

Recipe for disaster. Correct, and why not prepare Raptor pilots for A2A combat against future Gen 5 adversaries (such as PAK FA and J-XX) simply by replacing the 65th Aggressor Squadron's F-15s with F-22s, painted in the same Russian VVS style liveries and piloted by the same experienced instructors? The paint scheme of the F-22 on the center row would be ideal for a 65th AGRS Raptor. What do you think?

[tophat9000]

Yea the problem is the next big war in not going to last long enough for that math to work in our favor

In WW2 Japans Yamato said he would run wild for the first six months then he promised nothing... he did just that.

The next big war will not be that long for us to make a come back ...

And if we did go that long... add in we now see we can not go the long haul due to the left undermining the effort...

We got problems