Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

……The other was that the aircraft was unable to search for threats in the environment around it, unlike the B2 bomber. This made it particularly easy to shoot down because it couldn’t avoid threats as easily, and the threat space was growing. (As determined in a radar saturated airspace in Serbia using a very specific technique...

Our Wing Commander during Desert Shield / Strop refused to let HQ mission planners dictate our mission profiles and tactics. He actually stood the wing down until it changed. He didn’t make one star after the war because of it. Great commander.

In Serbia they threw away all the lessons learned from the gulf war and let higher HQ (lackies not briefed into the program) dictate mission profiles. The result was the aircraft shot down.

I hear a lot of people not in the program stating facts. I don’t think many details have been declassified so don’t believe much of what you hear.
 
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I hear a lot of people not in the program stating facts. I don’t think many details have been declassified so don’t believe much of what you hear.

I’m familiar with a lot of specifics…. Ultimately a good deal of the story deals with how much money are you are willing to spend.

One of the things I do find very interesting, in the Air Force at any rate, is the senior leadership likes to spin stories based upon where they want to spend their money.

I’m sure if they spent a ridiculous amount of money for updating all of the systems inside the F117 they could’ve made it more relevant for a longer period of time. But ultimately, that’s a losing battle when you have newer aircraft showing up…

The F 35 is an amazing aircraft only in that it has technology that’s far newer than the older air frames. What it is not is anything close to his stealthy as the F22 (the later being stealthy from all angles), and it certainly doesn’t have the air to air capabilities of the F22 from a performance standpoint.

So we will be left with the F 35 and a tweaked out version of the F-15…