And the B52 is being retired when and being currently/recently used where?
While the 'boys toys' departments of western militaries salivate over the latest enormously expensive technology and speak in hushed tones about network centric battle spaces we seem to always end up fighting villagers with RPGs and AK47s.
In 40 years we have only swapped black pajama for white bed sheets.
We need something to spank Jakarta from Darwin at 0430 in the pissing rain...or a JSI terrorist training camp hidden away on a remote Indon island...we're never going to be spanking Moscow or Tehran, that is for our US peers.
Who needs an air superiority fighter when you can crater their runways/trash aircraft on the ground and be gone before they hear you coming? How many Indon fighter pilots could/would follow an F111 through the mountain valleys of Java in the dark at 200'/600kts?
I know several retired Pig drivers and they get quite angry about what is going on.
Plus the JSF looks naff and the Pig is pure sex
