Current US Military

[Smitty-48]

The air superiority is the after-effect of being able to down everything.

no

there's Air Denial, then Air Parity, then Air Superiority, then Air Supremacy

Air Superiority doesn't down everything, it just means you have the initiative to go offensive

F-22 adds another niche, Air Dominance, which is to operate offensively without gaining Air Superiority, by leveraging Stealth

Sounds like a buncha wikipedia nerd shit to me, but ok.

I didn't invent this shit, bruv

these are the categories the United States Air Force came up with to articulate their operating enviroment, roundeye, don't brame

[SuburbanFarmer]

no

there's Air Denial, then Air Parity, then Air Superiority, then Air Supremacy

Air Superiority doesn't down everything, it just means you have the initiative to go offensive

F-22 adds another niche, Air Dominance, which is to operate offensively without gaining Air Superiority, by leveraging Stealth

Sounds like a buncha wikipedia nerd shit to me, but ok.

I didn't invent this shit, bruv

these are the categories the United States Air Force came up with to articulate their operating enviroment, roundeye, don't brame

You mean an entire branch of the military that relies solely on manned jets came up with obscure categorical roles for those jets to fill?

[Smitty-48]

Serious question - what can I do with a jet that I can’t do with a reaper? Same weapon, doing the same thing, better stealth.

ca'mom, bro, get serious

every first grader in America knows the answer to that question by now

Don’t you point at Top Gun. No longer relevant.

so long as chicks dig it, it's relevant

[SuburbanFarmer]

ca'mom, bro, get serious

every first grader in America knows the answer to that question by now

Don’t you point at Top Gun. No longer relevant.

so long as chicks dig it, it's relevant

I accept your surrender.

[Smitty-48]

Sounds like a buncha wikipedia nerd shit to me, but ok.

I didn't invent this shit, bruv

these are the categories the United States Air Force came up with to articulate their operating enviroment, roundeye, don't brame

You mean an entire branch of the military that relies solely on manned jets came up with obscure categorical roles for those jets to fill?

do know what you mean, the Reaper is an Air Force asset, they got it all covered, full spectrum dominance

[SuburbanFarmer]

I think your LM advocacy has blinded you to the new paradigm. The jockeys are now buggy whips.

[Smitty-48]

Don’t you point at Top Gun. No longer relevant.

so long as chicks dig it, it's relevant

I accept your surrender.

getting the desirable female to hand over the putty is the very purpose of war itself

right back to the stoneage, bruv

it's why we fight

[Smitty-48]

I think your LM advocacy has blinded you to the new paradigm. The jockeys are now buggy whips.

at Lockheed Martin, we never met a class of weapons we didn't love

we don't have to choose one paradigm over another, it's called interagency, joint & combined arms

[SuburbanFarmer]

I think your LM advocacy has blinded you to the new paradigm. The jockeys are now buggy whips.

at Lockheed Martin, we never met a class of weapons we didn't love

we don't have to choose one paradigm over another, it's called interagency, joint & combined arms

I’d imagine the profit margin is significantly higher on an F35 than a Reaper. Efficiency be damned.

[Smitty-48]

I’d imagine the profit margin is significantly higher on an F35 than a Reaper. Efficiency be damned.

F-35 is not about margin, it's about market share, the return on F-35 is not that much, 11.6%