Originally Posted by
just another jocky
12 miles...that's a little close for comfort isn't it?
If it was too dangerous to even get airborne, I'd just park the jet on the end of the runway pointing out to sea, makes the Butt (sp?) switch and loose off a couple of anti-ship missiles if that were the case.
Amazingly it can shoot down missiles as well as aircraft.
I think the problem is that the advances in technology aren't readily obvious, but suffice to say that a single T45 is more capable in the air defence role than everything sent down in 82.