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Re: When it comes to Military Aircraft 

By: monkeytrots in POPE IV | Recommend this post (1)
Sat, 01 Jul 17 10:03 PM | 80 view(s)
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Air-to-air combat remains a very rare event in modern warfare. After more than a decade of action over Iraq and Afghanistan, there has not been a single instance, not even during the initial stages of operations.

Nonetheless, the continued development of increasingly high-tech fighter aircraft, sensors and airborne weapons systems worldwide represent an enduring and quickly evolving potential threat to military pilots and planes. More to the point, it is clearly one that no air force can easily ignore.

http://www.airforce-technology.com/features/featureair-to-air-missiles-expanding-the-no-escape-zone/

From an F-15 fighter pilot - most aerial engagements now occur at distances of 50-100 miles, and are over in seconds. Will leave it to the search engine gurus here to verify this statement, should the thirst for 'truth' bite them that hard. *s* After all, real knowledge is always welcome by this reader.




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Re: When it comes to Military Aircraft
By: lkorrow in POPE IV
Sat, 01 Jul 17 10:50 AM 		Msg. 28166 of 47202

Zim,

I'm unclear on it. Your article says:

"For the F-35A, 180 rounds can be housed in the gun’s linkless ammunition handling system. For the F-35B and F-35C, they both rely on an external gun pod carrying the GAU-22. The gun pod can hold 220 rounds in a helical magazine that wraps around the gun’s barrels within the pod."

So, the F-35A can carry 180 rounds. And the F-35B and F-35C will carry 220 rounds in an external gun pod. The gun shoots 3000 rounds/minute. How long is this plane dog fighting? Best case, 14 seconds and its ammo's gone? Why bother?

Close range, I don't see it. They're relying on shooting down a plane a couple of miles away, it seems. Did they figure they would never be in a real dog fight again? Or do they have short range rockets on it for dogfights?

With Russians flying 5 feet from the wingtips of a us recon plane, how's the F-35 going to take out the Russian fighter and not our plane?

They seem to have made a decision that we don't need interceptors anymore. Was that a sound decision?

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