Originally Posted by
Asturias56
" poor exercise planning leaving the Typhoons encumbered by role equipment without the kit to remove it to face their completely clean opponents!"
And of course that could NEVER happen in real life................. that's the point of exercises - they ARE realistic
To ORAC's response I would add that dropping fuel tanks (and indeed other stores) would upset the green lobby and require expensive clean up operations, doubly angering the bean counters. It would also require absolutely enormous surface danger areas into which the stores could safely fall given that they would not be aimed in any way.
But more fundamentally if you don't have the insight to air combat to know this then perhaps you should not be commenting!