Air Superiority, Air Supremacy, Air Dominance?
AP3000 is just more of the same 'air power' cobblers that our lords and masters have used to justify spending billions of pounds buying fighters we don't need. Just when was the last dogfight in a conflict?
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"Just when was the last dogfight in a conflict?"
Perhaps the existence of a viable capability prevents the dogfight. Operation certain death doesn't have a good ring to it.
Perhaps the existence of a viable capability prevents the dogfight. Operation certain death doesn't have a good ring to it.
Muff,
You missed my point completely.....I was being tacky but serious at the same time.
If you do not field a significant number of aircraft of all types in sufficient numbers and capabilities....one does not have a chance to acheive the levels of supremacy.
A very small but very effective RAF might be the winner in a fight against an adversary but if the powers that be continue to whittle away at the fleet size.....it will have to be Monaco or Luxeumburg you guys have to go up against.
The US Air Force has been done much the same way....but not to the extent it appears the RAF has been maulled. Air Forces are very expensive to maintain and operate as are ships for the Navy and nowadays lead times for construction mean we will have to fight a war with the equipment on hand. There will be no time to build up the force structure as we did in WWII.
Worse case situation.....we have to take on the Chinese.....and fight someone in the Persian Gulf area.....are the western powers going to have the force structure to win?
The only way to prevent having to fight a war is to be strong enough that the other side knows it cannot win. We continue to downsize our military power and in time someone that means us harm will take a chance at it.
You missed my point completely.....I was being tacky but serious at the same time.
If you do not field a significant number of aircraft of all types in sufficient numbers and capabilities....one does not have a chance to acheive the levels of supremacy.
A very small but very effective RAF might be the winner in a fight against an adversary but if the powers that be continue to whittle away at the fleet size.....it will have to be Monaco or Luxeumburg you guys have to go up against.
The US Air Force has been done much the same way....but not to the extent it appears the RAF has been maulled. Air Forces are very expensive to maintain and operate as are ships for the Navy and nowadays lead times for construction mean we will have to fight a war with the equipment on hand. There will be no time to build up the force structure as we did in WWII.
Worse case situation.....we have to take on the Chinese.....and fight someone in the Persian Gulf area.....are the western powers going to have the force structure to win?
The only way to prevent having to fight a war is to be strong enough that the other side knows it cannot win. We continue to downsize our military power and in time someone that means us harm will take a chance at it.
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Hard to see the UK achieving even a 'fvourable air situation' alone anymore when we cannot provide 24hr CAP coverage for an upcoming event of some importance i believe?
