Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "Not A Pound For Air To Ground" channel.

  1. How versatile was the F-111, aside from being a Common Airframe? I also don't see it carrying as many Phoenix missiles as the F-14 along with self-defense missiles and an ac, even though those loads had the pilot screaming for an KA-6 for fuel after every cat shot. The Phoenix DEFINED THE DOCTRINE, NOT SPARROWS, and the Phoenix defined the truck carrying it to the loiter point. And, let's next talk about escape pods and the like that unnecessarily complicated deployed maintenance schemes.
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  2. Whom did the Cubans use them against?!
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  3. Maybe 'sharing some primary design requirements', but I DOUBT the F-5 was BUILT like a Warsaw Pact airplane.
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  4. Because the US couldn't afford to keep replacing all the dead pilots and all the crashed aircraft just from bad design, like in Europe? Especially with carrier landings and launches required for USN operations? Especially when pilots would refuse to fly them BECAUSE of that replacement rate?! The real improvement would have been trashing the playground ROIs that turned it all into a political problem instead of a capabilities problem.
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