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My suggestion is to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on longer-range SAMs and more fragile, unmanned, missile-carrying aircraft cheaper than the F35. Sorr
by greglindahl 9y ago
My suggestion is to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on longer-range SAMs and more fragile, unmanned, missile-carrying aircraft cheaper than the F35.
Sorry if this isn't obvious, I've seen lots of other people (including people in the military) suggest the same thing.
- riku_iki 9y agoOk, let's assume your aircraft succeeded to gain air superiority, now you need to do actual bombing of enemy territory with air defense. What now? F-35 has some edge by being stealthy. It can track and target moving targets, it can do CAS. Will your fragile aircraft survive in such conditions?
- greglindahl 9y agoDo I get to include the effect of having a lot more stuff because I didn't have to pay for manned F-35s? Also, do I get to track moving targets from low Earth orbit using small-ish satellites, or is that right out?
- riku_iki 9y agoYour very aggressive conclusions are based on very unclear assumptions.
- greglindahl 9y agoI didn’t conclude anything! I’m just suggesting alternatives to the status quo.