From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll keep it short.
>From: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>The decision not to arm the Eurofighter is bloody stupid,
Anyone who is interested in learning about air superiority and the
weapons, strategy and tactics best suited to achieve it should do some
reading:
"Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in retrospect"; by Admiral Sharp ISBN
0-89141-272-7
"Storm over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War"; by Richard Hallion (US
Air Force's official historian), ISBN 1-56098-723-5
"Air Power: the strategy behind the air campaign against Iraq"; I don't
have the book to hand so don't have full details.
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
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty
is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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