Posted on 01/12/2013 12:10:30 PM PST by SkyPilot
... and continue, ever since the Reagan Administration.
Which Air Force won’t fly?
The Air Force, Air Force, the Navy Air Force, the Marine Air Force or the Army Air Force.
The future?
Air Air Corps all over again and a Navy Air branch, which supports the Marines.
All very much smaller.
Lots of good points and good discussion. Where’s our next John Boyd? Our enemy in Afghanistan just took out a huge chunk of our super-sophisticated Harrier fleet with twenty guys with wire cutters. I don’t care if an airplane costs a billion dollars a copy if it can stay in the air for a month and shoot down every flying object within 5,000 miles and never be shot down. I haven’t looked at the mathematical geography concerned with this, but I’m pretty sure we could rule the air around the planet with fewer than a hundred of them. Until then, it’s always a matter of trade offs.
At least back then we had manufacturing ability. China would smoke us now.
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