where are you getting your 8 F111s from to match 24 super hornets?
Que? Where did I say that?
From the data 3 F models carries the same
payload as 1 F111, and only
half the distance.
I got the data from some books on my shelf (hence the question mark regarding veracity and the "is this true?").
1 smart bomb is all you need per target
Hmmm, which is why I wrote...
Assuming for a minute that the fundamental deterrent factor of the Strike group is dropping a GBU into the living room of the president of Kamaria and maybe one onto the cabinet building.
For every AMRAAM etc you carry, that is one less bomb, add to that drop tanks because your internal fuel range is crap, what does that leave? 1 GBU on your centre pylon??
Squandering tax payers money on sh!t, is a defence artform (even for the 2 decades I was in uniform and the taxes from a Def payslip), why should anything change now?
No craters in the ground without air superiority dude!
Are we parking 3s, 75s and 77s F18Cs as part of this fiasco?