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"Secondary Mission" means that it would only perform the action on its way to/from its primary mission. So if--on the way to or from bombing a target--the pilot
by moron4hire 6y ago
"Secondary Mission" means that it would only perform the action on its way to/from its primary mission. So if--on the way to or from bombing a target--the pilot saw a Soviet AWACS aircraft, it would then attack. It wouldn't have been sent out specifically for that mission.
- throwanem 6y agoWhich is another way of saying, this would spend munitions load on the forlorn hope of maybe backshooting a Mainstay out of pure luck and happenstance, instead of spending that mass and volume on ordnance that actually made sense for the mission. Which is another way of saying, this is something some engineers at Lockheed blue-skyed around a table one day, and the PMO liked it enough to throw it into a stack of viewgraphs as "planned future capability", thus promising absolutely nothing, in case it might help sell the aircraft.
- na85 6y agoI see you have also worked with government procurement.
- throwanem 6y agoNever directly, but I've spent 20 years adjacent to the defense industry, almost half of that working directly under a salty old engineer of Lockheed pedigree. Something like that should be a minimum job requirement for covering the defense industry, imo. Without it, they're far too credulous.