Posted on 02/11/2023 5:15:31 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Now, in terms of the military impact, an F-16 is still a very capable platform: It has a good radar, it can fly well above the majority of the Russian sound systems in the area apart from the very, very specialized ones. It has a weapons system tied to that radar that can engage the vast majority of Russian aircraft long before they can attack it. The F-16 doesn't have quite the same stealth characteristics of something like an F-35 and an F-22. But I've fought against the F-16. I've had the odd trip in one, but I've also fought against it. It's tiny, it's hard to see on radar, it's even harder to see in the air with the naked eye. The F-16 is not called a viper for no reason. It's a vicious, nasty, dangerous little airplane.
If I was a Russian pilot with 100 hours training in an aircraft that I'm a little bit nervous about whether my weapons really work because I've never been allowed to use them in training or in wartime, I am going to be shit scared of getting airborne and wondering whether there's an F-16 up there.
And it's going to change the way they approach [the war]. If we can take Russian air power and limit its influence on the battlefield and over Ukraine in general, that gives Ukraine breathing space, that's then going to allow the combined arms effect of the artillery, the HIMARS (High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems), the tanks, and everything else to operate as well as it already has done. And this time do it without any concern about what's above. The combination of those two things will be hugely powerful and ultimately will make most Russians realize that they can't win....
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But you lot are all so similar! You all look and sound alike.
It might be those leftover mongol epicanthic folds, from, you know, that unfortunate business.
What you need, old fellow, is a referral to your archdiocese.
You badly need a retreat to have a good look at your mind and soul.
“You lot”, says no American ever.
I’m US born and bred, of Irish descent.
One Brit pushing insane war talk from another Brit, on an American public who would like to stay out of another European war. Why don't you grow a set and head off to Bakhmut. Lord knows Zelensky could use you.
I need to get bummed by your priest? No thanks.
I suspect any competent Russian High Command would order the immediate destruction of EVERY runway in Ukraine.
-fJRoberts-
Warmongering globalists get excited about sending other people’s sons to their deaths.
Save the priest bumming for yourself Irish CIA agent.
Oh wait, you are not Irish... You are part of the friggin Nazi Cabal that took over the British Monarchy. Sorry, My bad, scum bag.
That they do. I don’t get it.
That guy wants to see us go to war and extend the current one.
Which ones and where?
I’m a Veteran if you’re talking shit to me.
HARM plus sdb for SEAD.
Translation:
LCDR Harmon Rabb cuts a dyslexic fart for Southeast Asia Athletic Department.
I am a native, of a sort, of three countries. Empires are like that. “Globalization” is ooold. My lot went “East of Suez” before there was a Suez. Grandpa and dad and my uncle, Spaniards all, all worked their whole lives for British “Hongs” in Asia, and Hong Kong was a nice place for Christmas shopping. So we grew up on Enid Blyton and Cadburys and Britains. My wife and daughter used to go to London every year. Then there is the Spanish and the Filipino and American - I’m a born globalist.
If you think you are avoiding that - you cant. That barn door was opened and the horse ran off 125 years ago. William Mckinley and Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and all those guys went and demolished the barn door, and the barn with it - well, maybe your great-grandpa could have argued harder, but you have no time machines.
Suck it up. You can’t live on fantasies.
I wrote, “What about the younger ones who were too cowardly to enlist at all.” Looks like you have a problem understanding that.
Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD)
It’s a thing. The US has spent a LOT on this. Maybe you should take it up with the USAF. I can see you now, protesting at the Pentagon doors “Ban SEAD!” “Unfair to Putin!”
You’re existing on the fantasy that Ukraine can win.
The globalist agenda is presented as a false dichotomy.
Isolationist cowardice or fight “evil”.
The US has useful alliances and useless alliances.
Much of Europe is useless or detrimental, but Ukraine isn’t even a useless one.
They are nothing to us, and we owe them nothing.
I care about the US. I don’t give a damn about Russia or Ukraine.
I read they had done some of that already.....
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