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To: Wildbill22

We canned all our better missiles and the ones we have left we didn’t significantly upgrade.

Also, we don’t seem to have done anything to defend against ‘AWACS killer’ missiles, which pretty much everyone who would be our assailant or would find themselves up against an AWACS like system has been concentrating on for decades now.

If their supporting AWACS gets taken out, even MiG-29s can take out our F-22s and our F-35s if they have to acquire their own targets - or worse, radiate. This has been shown in multiple exercises where our fighters had to go into action without AWACS support. It’s a BIG glaring problem in our doctrine and capabilities.

In the modern battlespace, you radiate - you die.


5 posted on 01/11/2018 10:44:14 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Without AWACs, our battle strategy is drastically altered.


6 posted on 01/12/2018 11:45:20 AM PST by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abramsp)
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