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F22 Raptor Gets Fragged By T-38 Training Jet |
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I appreciate your point, but this situation didn't justify arguing it. There was no "reporter" here. The video is simply an alleged T-38's gunnery footage. There was no "imagined bias" other than our (the readers') own.
Plus, you keep spelling "T-38" wrong..
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Swiss F-5 fighter taxiing through a village between runway and cavern bunker at the reserve airfield Turtmann:
Source: [defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com]
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[3.bp.blogspot.com]
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Along with that, the T-38 pilot is probably really good. If he was a trainer for Red Flag, then he is probably one of the best air-to-air combat pilots in the US Air Force.
I wonder if they handicapped the F22 at all...like not allow him any simulated long-range weapons?
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[www.theatlantic.com]
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I heard she has been in a car, so it probably qualifies for coverage much in the same way that these fighter pilots have also been in a car.
j/k Pretty cool story.
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I'd be more curious to know what the rules of engagement for this exercise were, and then see it played out over several engagements and with several pilots... nothing is invincible, so its bound to happen.
The thing is, realistically this is a situation the F22 shouldn't ever find itself in. It wasn't designed necessarily as a stand-alone weapon, but rather as an integrated platform that can get on station quickly and kill from a distance... and power its way out of any fight that it didn't have a clear advantage in. In reality, this would have been over before it started.
Also... why is this on Jalopnik?
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T-38 pilot: "Gee, sure is a nice day for some flying. Incoming ordnance? That can't be right, I'm the only one arouBLAM!
F-22 pilot: "Threat neutralized, returning to base"
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I had a moment like that when offroading out by Plaster City, east of San Diego. This is where the Blue Angels are based out of.
We're cruising along in the dirt in a convoy of Jeeps, and start to hear a jet. It took maybe 12 seconds for the thing to go from one horizon to the other. If we were a target, we'd have been lucky to scramble for cover beyond the blast crater that the Jeeps were about to become.
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"The Eurofighter is the world's most advanced fighter"
"The MiG-29 is the world's most advanced fighter"
This must be why we have wars. It's like drag racing for pinks for the military.
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The Eurofighter is the world's best compromise.
The Mig-29 is the world's toughest fighter.
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I Tom Clancy's HAWX, that is...
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