[DallasDeb]

Funny, I’ve never heard about an AWACS being taken down by the enemy. AWACS and JSTAR play a huge part in combat management. An F-35 can’t coordinate mid-air refueling, or identify enemy movement, or, I doubt, be able to determine what’s going on in the air and on the ground over an expanded surface of Earth. I once saw a graphic taken by JSTAR at night during the early part of the first Iraqi war. JSTAR lit up everything moving. Thousands of Iraqis and equipment were headed north, away from Kuwait. Cool pict.

[USNBandit]

I have another question. If we give up AWACS, who is going to manage the Link? Kinda hard to conduct "net centric" warfare without a net.

[bruinbirdman]

"Funny, I’ve never heard about an AWACS being taken down by the enemy. "

Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy

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[blueplum]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC-121_shootdown_incident
The EC-121 shootdown incident occurred on 15 April 1969 when a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by North Korean MiG-17 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed 90 nautical miles (167 km) off the North Korean coast and all 31 Americans on board were killed.
The Nixon administration chose not to retaliate against North Korea

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