From: "Derek Bernard", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Anyone who undertakes a serious study of the subject will soon realise
> that the best place to destroy enemy aircraft is when they are still on
> the ground (in their HASs for example using a precision munition). The
> *least* effective place to **attempt** to destroy your enemy's aircraft
> is in air-to-air combat, irrespective of what romanticising pilots or
> would-be pilots might wistfully think.
>
> --Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
We seem to be mixing apples and oranges.
Jonathan may well be right (as usual!). But that does NOT address, much
less eliminate, the many powerful arguements that have been put forward for
equipping fighters with cannon. That would only be true if a persuasive
case had been made that so equipping fighters would materially reduce the
ability to attack the enemy's planes on the ground with appropriate means.
Derek Bernard
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