Originally posted by gunnut
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One of my favourites is a fight between a flight of old, subsonic, radarless, Jordanian Hawker Hunter vs supersonic top of line Israeli Mirage III. Score? 1 Mirage III down, 3 damaged.
And Skyraiders shotdown Mig-17s in Vienam... anyone willing to take bets on that fight?...
The men/women using the system count for far more than the system itself. Hell, even an armchair general like me, who never served, knows this!
As for the F-18, the USN did a great deal with them: replaced 3 planes (F-14, A-7, A-6) with just one. I'll be willing to be that the sheer increase in availability from improved logistics and simplified procedures is worth a small drop in individual plane quality for any one specific mission (and I'm an F-14 nut...).
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