Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. The best fighter that was never adopted?

The best fighter that was never adopted?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
4 Posts 3 Posters 37 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • JollyJ Offline
    JollyJ Offline
    Jolly
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/f-16xl-the-f-16-that-could-carry-27-bombs-into-the-fight/

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

    1 Reply Last reply
    • X Offline
      X Offline
      xenon
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      I sound like a broken record on this. But I don't get what the point of fancy military aircrafts are.

      In my lifetime they've been used almost exclusively to bomb developing countries with weak defenses.

      Have there been any high profile dogfights or truly dangerous bombing runs we've engaged in over the past 30 years?

      CopperC 1 Reply Last reply
      • JollyJ Offline
        JollyJ Offline
        Jolly
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        Iraq had one of the most sophisticated air defense systems in the world. By using a combination of old and cutting edge technology - F-117 and B-52's using cruise missiles - we rapidly established air superiority and then dominance.

        Once that is established in modern warfare, the outcome is assured, as long as sufficient ground forces are available.

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

        1 Reply Last reply
        • X xenon

          I sound like a broken record on this. But I don't get what the point of fancy military aircrafts are.

          In my lifetime they've been used almost exclusively to bomb developing countries with weak defenses.

          Have there been any high profile dogfights or truly dangerous bombing runs we've engaged in over the past 30 years?

          CopperC Offline
          CopperC Offline
          Copper
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          @xenon many

          1 Reply Last reply
          Reply
          • Reply as topic
          Log in to reply
          • Oldest to Newest
          • Newest to Oldest
          • Most Votes


          • Login

          • Don't have an account? Register

          • Login or register to search.
          • First post
            Last post
          0
          • Categories
          • Recent
          • Tags
          • Popular
          • Users
          • Groups