Originally Posted by
Evalu8ter
I hear that the Matra at MacDill is a training/acq round delivered in a 'live' box by mistake…..
Finally, if an F-16 is fighting an F-16 in a fancy paint job it's not really DACT is it? The F-5 was a reasonable facsimile of Gen 2/3 Soviet hardware, but even then the USAF felt it needed the exotica of the 4477th to train selected crews effectively. Contract RedAir enables their pilots to 'fight' against a number of different types, fulfilling different (and scaled) threats - the Mirage F1, Kfir, A4, L-159, Hawk etc are all well embedded - and there may well be 'exposures' to 'other' aircraft still going on somewhere….. Ironically, the much-promised F16 AdAir aircraft have never actually appeared….
The point about DACT and like Vs. like is very valid, there was an excellent paper written on it by a previous Undersecretary of the Air Force. It would appear that the same company with the much-promised Vipers isn't happy about the recent Task Order awards for Luke and Holloman either. Did the RAF ever get that "demonstration of capability" they were offered for August 2016?
https://www.gao.gov/docket/B-418974.1
