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> Comparing them in this manner is just disenginuous. True, a 747 pilot will have in the vicinity of 400 souls on board, while a fighter jet pilot will have 1
by Beldin 5y ago
> Comparing them in this manner is just disenginuous.
True, a 747 pilot will have in the vicinity of 400 souls on board, while a fighter jet pilot will have 1 or 2.
- baq 5y agoMight have upwards of hundred thousand if he doesn’t complete the mission, so I wouldn’t say it’s as clear cut as you make it out to be.
- nix23 5y agoNormally, fighter jets kill peoples...not safe them. The "could"-safe-way is not proof-able, the killings are.
- baq 5y agoYes. They kill people piloting bombers carrying bombs, potentially nuclear, again potentially aimed at cities... sometimes you have to pick the lesser evil.
- iso1210 5y agoWhen was the last time an American fighter pilot shot down a bomber?
- fit2rule 5y ago
- throwaway894345 5y ago“Deterrence” is the word you’re looking for. Bombers don’t fly against the US because our fighters (and various other AA systems) would shoot them down.
- nix23 5y agoSorry but not even north Korea would use bombers, however fighters are good for airspace policing...but shooting down bombers....that's 60's mindset.
- throwaway894345 5y agoNo need to apologize. NK doesn’t use bombers because fighters and are prolific. Without those fighters bombers become more viable.
- nix23 5y agoI think you should educate yourself about something called rockets.
- throwaway894345 5y agoI converse here on HN because the discourse is usually a little higher than the “middle school” level that you find elsewhere on the Internet. Won’t you join me in preserving that property?
- nix23 5y agoIf you change your username, i don't like talk to "throwaway"-trolls
- throwaway894345 5y agoMy name has the string "throwaway" in it, but I have 4x your karma so I think it's safe to say I'm just as valid a contributor in this community as you are. Anyway, neither of us are using our legal names, so I don't know why you're throwing that stone in particular. That said, you're breaking the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nix23 5y agoYour stuck in the 60's.
- baq 5y agoMight I suggest you watch some videos from Ukraine dated 2022. Granted Su-25 does not carry nuclear weapons, but there are examples of rather dramatically “successful” bombing runs in the Mariupol theater of operations.
- nix23 5y ago>Granted Su-25 does not carry nuclear weapons If you think the Su-25 is a bomber then the A-10 is one too ;) Both are subsonic attack aircraft's, completely different missions. Those are Bombers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bomber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bomber And since you mentioned Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160#Former_operators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160#Former_operator... Pretty interesting backstory.