CSA Redux?

Subject: CSA Redux?
From: Peter Kemp
Date: 4/12/04 5:12 PM US Eastern Standard Time
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On 12 Apr 2004 13:59:03 -0700, (sid) wrote:

(sid) wrote in message
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Looks like the need for more than single seat fighters is becoming an issue
again. From the April Seapower
http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/apr_04_16.php
"Boeing's Ted Herman, business development manager for the F-18
program, told Sea Power the Super Hornet tanker helps "extend the " legs" of
the strike aircraft and does not compromise on aerodynamic performance.

But the Navy is not entirely content with the Super Hornet as a tanker. While
converted to refuel, the jet is not carrying weapons for
strike missions. Fitzgerald said the Navy would consider a replacement
Here is a realted tidbit in the current AvWeek...
Navy plans to continue dominating the world's oceans despite tight budgets will
require, among other things, strategic aerial tanking
that, in turn, will drive experiments with launching KC-130s from large-deck
aircraft carriers, Rear Adm. Jay M. Cohen, chief of naval research, says at the
annual Navy League convention here. The idea is
to give Navy and Marine aircraft what Cohen terms "overland persistent
tanking."

Some problems with using a KC-130 are....
a. getting them off the deck with a decent load
b. conducting any other ops while the damn thing is on the deck (you're not
going to be striking a Herc into the hangar without a lot
of sawing).
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Peter Kemp

Life is short - drink faster

Sounds like someone needs their copy of "Pearl Harbor" or whatever book on the
Doolittle Tokyo raid he/she was reading and/or funny cigarettes taken away!