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And that ladies and gentleman sums it up. It has nothing to do with what our opposition has or has not. We don't care to be honest, we care defeating that threat. That is what I do for a living now working C2 for AWACS. My job is to deny the enemy use of the air. Will there be dogfights in the future? Sure, but you know what, that is not about what we do. It’s about killing them before that happens using the technology we have. Too many of you still think its like Korea or Vietnam. But it isn’t, and as I said its about who can swat them out of the sky first and the team with the better training and toys wins. Other countries do have great toys, but lack the training programs at the great lengths the USAF, USN, USA and USMC go to train their pilots.
I am sorry if I am touting how great the US military air arms are but we ARE that damn good. We train to fly, fight and win. Period. Everyday my AWACS go up to train. I can't tell you how many training sorties we fly a day as well as training / air controlling with other units in the US who are training too. The amount is staggering. It’s easy to read a few articles and thus you are now an "expert" but people like FC and I do it for a living. We know the reality of it that no article or internet forum or arm chair pilot will ever know.
Some of you who fly WOE/SF/WOV have talked about wanting modern scenarios to fly in. Well take Desert Storm for example, if we do a mod like that like it was, guess what, people would complain by the lack of opposition or difficulty. It will start out intense but by the 2 week of the campaign, there was little to no opposition to the air campaign. And don't blah blah blah me to death about how inept Saddam’s forces were, it was until after, was that realized. At the time Baghdad was one of the most heavily defended cities in the world and he had the 4th largest air force in the world. We estimated that the first night we were going to lose at least 2 or 3 dozen aircraft. But training, planning and execution turned those figures into nothing but cow poo poo. That folks is total air dominance. That is how to fly an air war.
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