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[STARMAN 352ND]

You have got to be kidding me.....Good thing for the Tankers being with them huh.
I hope they fix these bugs out before the real deal comes along.
I would not want to be in the middle of a dogfight and have that happen.
JP

[Cardinal]

Sounds like the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica may have had something to do with it ...

[Cardinal]

Jokes aside, I sometimes wonder that were the s*** ever to hit the fan, there may be more than a few of the older technology aircraft that will have to be taken out of mothballs as all the high-tech stuff sits impotent on the ground ...

Who knows ...

[jim]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

Jokes aside, I sometimes wonder that were the s*** ever to hit the fan, there may be more than a few of the older technology aircraft that will have to be taken out of mothballs as all the high-tech stuff sits impotent on the ground ...

Who knows ...

If our government (For government, read pigs with noses in the trough, I,m alright mate stuff you) cuts back on the RAF any more then Duxford will be the new command post and Spitfires and Mustangs will be Britains front line defense.

[Hoverbug]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

Sounds like the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica may have had something to do with it ...

It's not that far off the mark. Likely, many of those millions of lines of code were written in countries that are not necessarily allies. Sad, but we can't even program our own computers anymore and have to contract out much of the "grunt" coding.

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

Jokes aside, I sometimes wonder that were the s*** ever to hit the fan, there may be more than a few of the older technology aircraft that will have to be taken out of mothballs as all the high-tech stuff sits impotent on the ground ...

Who knows ...??????

Well said.

That's why other Western a/c enthusiasts, used to point out the potential advatages of stuff like the Mig-29's - less reliance on Technology.

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by jim

If our government cuts back on the RAF any more, then Duxford will be the new command post and Spitfires and Mustangs will be Britain's front line defense.

(SAD) FACT - the Royal Navy's most potent fixed wing a/c for 2007, is currently the Hawker Sea-Hawk (early 'fifties jet fighter) or it's predecessor, the Hawker Sea-Fury (developed from the Tempest II), unless you count ordnance carrying capability as your first choice - in which case, the Royal Navy's most potent fixed wing a/c in 2007 is the Fairy Swordfish

Pathetic, but true.

R.N.'s most potent 2007 a/c, must be the Sea-Skua armed Lynx helicopter (at best, armed with one 7.92 'Jimpy' (G.P.M.G.)

The wonderful museum pieces are operated by the R.N.H.F

ALL of the Sea-Harriers are gone - the F.A.A. Sqdn's aircrew were absorbed into a 'Joint Strike Force' of R.A.F. Harriers, now based at Wittering, in Cambridgeshire.

All part of the way into removing the 'Great' from Britain .

[mikeb1958]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

Sounds like the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica may have had something to do with it ...

Or also those ROMULINS are up to no good. Ole Capt. Kirk never liked or trusted them either......

[PH-LKK]

Originally Posted by Hoverbug

It's not that far off the mark. Likely, many of those millions of lines of code were written in countries that are not necessarily allies. Sad, but we can't even program our own computers anymore and have to contract out much of the "grunt" coding.

Now that ain't quite fair. We *choose* to have our programming exported. There are plenty of programmers here in the states who could, and would, do the work if it were given to them. It's all about the *cost* of doing so.

US military budgeting is a joke. Almost nothing ever gets cancelled, and the choice of weapons programs tends to utterly ignore the price tag until after a commitment is made to build and deploy it.