Posted on 11/05/2015 11:08:55 AM PST by Strategy
The U.S. military has many types of aircraft that are developed and fielded for a specific purpose, although many are considered 'multi role.' The F15C is not one of these.
It is specifically an air-to-air machine, designed for air superiority over a battlefield. It's pilots are the part of a dwindling fraternity, the dogfighter.
The aircraft are not deployed in theater unless commanders are worried about an air-to-air threat, in other words, aircraft that can target American attack jets or other support aircraft which are not capable of properly defending themselves in the air against a credible air-to-air adversary.
Perhaps this is why the F-15C was not deployed to the Syrian conflict, or Afghanistan, or Iraq, that is until now.
ISIS has no air force.
The only reason for Eagles to be in-country, if you will, is because the Russian air force has shown up in numbers, deploying SU-30 air-to-air fighters at their newly constructed Syrian air base at Latakia.
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I’m sure he wants that outcome. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Someone earlier today mentioned a Charlie Sheen Pentagon. We should be so lucky. Barry and his assistants in the GOP didn’t peter principle Sheen up the ladder.
Any U.S. ‘dogfighter’ pilot who attempts to STOP Russian fighter jets from exterminating Muslim vermin can GO TO HELL. Yes, I said GO TO HELL for joining 0dingo/ValJar’s undermining of America, WAR on Christianity, expansion of the Caliphate, etc..
He kills journalists and Radicals, He kills ISIS , hates our weak president......and you hate him? I personally have no issue with anyone hes killed. I applaud his taste.
The only reason the US would shoot down Russian jets is to protect terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists
Except there's nothing in it for Obama to stick around. He's got a lucrative future of book advances, lectures and foundation graft ahead of him once he vacates the White House.
Sorry, not buying the martial law/cancelled elections conspiracy.
I got to think Sheen is a Putinista
Winning!
“Yes and they are awesome. The F22 is what we would send if we were serious as that is THE air superiority plane.”
Im not even convinced of that. The 15 is supposedly beatable by a 22 on a given day, IF the O2 system on the 22 is working, etc.
The 15 has a reputation of dead balls on reliability and hasn’t been beaten yet in air to air combat.
I want Putin to KILL as many Muslim vermin as humanly possible and ta hell with 0dinga for trying to stop him!!!
I believe they are already there
Half the Hawaii Air National Guard wing
The F-22 OBOGS system problem has been resolved and now works great.. 0dinga supposedly DID sent 6 or 8 F-22’s to the Mideast SOMEWHERE, location classified. Who knows..
anyone who thinks the Russians are killing moderates has not looked up the identities and sympathies and affiliations of the groups being targeted
and the Russian BDA reports are naming names of both target units and individuals
If a Dem is elected president in 2016, 0dinga stays in the U.S. to become George Soros II. If a Republican is elected president in 2016, 0dinga LEAVES THE COUNTRY, POSSIBLY FOR CUBA and I guarantee you that.
My kid was on the 22 program for a few years. It’s sorted. In the Red Flags, the 22 is beyond deadly. most of its opponents never even knew they were ‘dead’.
But don’t get me wrong. The 15 was decades ahead of it’s time and still the hottest thing in the sky short of it. It should have it’s picture in the dictionary near the word ‘Awesome”.
Hell it only needs half the plane to even be intact to fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo5hhaylEN4
Watch out, he might try to get Hawaii to secede.
He’s a totalitarian dictator, invader and murderer.
Do you like that he’s killed Ukrainians, Georgians and political opponents? I don’t.
Putin is a general purpose jerk. He happens to be killing some convenient guys today. But he has no morals. Yesterday and tomorrow he’ll kill people we like with no compunction whatsoever.
Didn't think so ...
The rules of engagement could be so restrictive that our planes are sitting ducks, and then they get sent into provocative situations. Or they could be there to shoot down Israeli F 15’s.
Why are we doing this? We have no right to be there . We are invading a sovereign country. We are risking a war with Russia . Who are we fighting for/against. GET OUT OF THERE!!!
Unfortunately with Barry and the GOP in charge, being a Putinista isn’t the bad thing it would be in any normal situation.
Actually they are very much doing that as we speak. The process is underway. Early stages/native agitation, UN pleas...all the things leftists do to overthrow.
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