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I recall in a game (or was it an old intel report?) where the Iranian F-14's were used as AWACS birds.
Now, I don't know much about that aircraft's radar, of whether it would still work or not, what it would take to make it work. That wasn't my area.
But if someone was doing something of a reverse Tu-128 situation, with a decent SAM net, where instead of ground directing the aircraft to the intercept, the aircraft is directing ground where to point the missiles (or worse) ......... then that's one flak storm I'd rather avoid.
Basic point is, if the bird can fly at all, consider all aspects of what it can be used for, not just what you would use it for.
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("This ship is equipped with a forward-mounted, twenty-millimeter electric cannon. Its six barrels are capable of firing four thousand rounds of ammunition per minute. And that, gentlemen, is one hell of a sh*t-storm in anybody's language!"--Sgt. Short, (wtte), "Blue Thunder")
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