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Not A Pound For Air To Ground
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Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Blackbird Fighter Was The Ultimate Interceptor" video.
The race was over before it started. Spending money on interceptors did not make sense in an ICBM World.
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The biggest drawback is that we didn't need more interceptors.
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You are just going to skip over the whole fact that interceptors were obsolete?
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Is every Canadian taught this sob story at Birth? It has almost turned into like a religion?
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Expensive, unneeded, obsolete.
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@originalSPECTER why not?
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The bomber threat was already dying.
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Not really...
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It's a victim of the reality that the ICBM had replaced the bomber. High flying, Mach 3 interceptors were obsolete already. And surface-to-air missiles could do much of the same job anyway.
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@chriskortan1530 I think it's mandatory at Birth that all Canadians be taught to cry about the Arrow? How many generations are they going to keep this up?
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It was money spent elsewhere on more useful things.
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Icbms made interceptors in general obsolete.
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@johnmoore8599 speed does not guarantee success anymore. And we have long range uavs that can do most of the same Mission now.
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@johnmoore8599 I haven't seen anything more than a lot of rumor and speculation.
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