Originally Posted by
fineline
Some of the best military aviation content this forum has seen in a good long while. Thank you for providing this link.
I particularly liked his all-to-brief coverage of the EW aspect, about which I've not seen very much discussion. Also the phasing of the operation, in terms of how things went the first few days, how things went during the next weeks, and the changes they started to see in March. And the shambles that was the RU comms plan.
For ORAC:
Taras dreamed of switching from old fighter jets to modern F-16s.
Originally Posted by fineline's link
(somewhere between minutes 35-39, compare Viper to Grippen) but as noted in the link may not be politically achievable. Too bad: cost and maintenance wise, probably a better fit. Look, the Viper's a great bird, but the argument presented there is pretty solid.