Modern equipment and planes without experienced well trained crews and pilots are a waste, IMHO.
They put these amateurs in those things without at least a years training in real time battle scenario’s, and they'll end up dead real quick and you and I and everyone else gets to pay for it.
“Modern equipment and planes without experienced well trained crews and pilots are a waste, IMHO”
Obviously there has to be more than “planes” in the package. Pilots, mechanics, parts, parts and more parts.
Some of the planes that get “shot down” will bring a pretty penny on the black market.
The same is true for tanks, as I’m sure you know, which means, we’re sending people there with them.
God help us.
Do we still have F-5s in our flying/working inventory?
Snappy little missile platforms and ground support bombers. Where is napalm when you need it?
What do we have in the Boneyard that could be brought back to life pretty quickly? How about in ready National Guard air units? Not using them on the southern border, are we?