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To: JRandomFreeper

More than you would think. What concerns me is in a REAL war our city’s and manufacturing base will be crippled, or at the very least our supply lines will be strenuous at best.

Its going to be a lot harder to produce & distribute theses very complex missile systems, assuming we could ever build enough of them to take down an air-force more than 5 times more numerous than our own.


74 posted on 07/31/2012 5:54:13 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise
Give me numbers. Every air engagement from the gulf war forward is detailed, and there was 1 each BVR air-to-air by F-15s. That was actually run by an AWACs.

An Iraqi Mig-25 did take an F-18 out with a BVR shot.

There aren't many examples out there. The ROE don't generally allow it.

Are you a zoomie?

/johnny

75 posted on 07/31/2012 6:01:20 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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