Zombywoof wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:43:48 -0500, Dan wrote:

Raymond O'Hara wrote:
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a big main force war isn't going to happen anytime in the next 50 years.
You may be willing to stake your life on that, I'm not. I have
history on my side. Since WW2 there were Korea, Viet Nam and Gulf War
where an air superiority fighter was a requirement. Iraq may not have
had the greatest air force, but they didn't exactly roll over either.

Actually they did, they rolled over & play dead or fled. There were
no attempts at any meaningful maintenance of Iraqi airspace by the
Iraqi's.

Well, the 33rd TFW took out 16 Iraqi MiGs that weren't rolling over
or fleeing. They may not have been anywhere near top notch, but those 16
at least did put up a fight.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired