lol, these wars are against people with sticks who hide and live in mountains and caves... I was reading article a while back saying F35 was NEVER used in a combat, bet every air mission was done with f16's... f35's are not needed because there will never be a conflict with 2 super powers since everything is nuclear now...
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Originally Posted by crockett
Well I disagree with air superiority not being much of a factor. Did you pay attention to specially the 1st & 2nd Iraq war but also Afghanistan wars at the start?
Both Iraq wars specifically allowed us to over run the country via our air power. In fact the bulk of the fight was air war in Desert Storm. If not for the thousands of air sorties prior to the ground invasion it wouldn't have gone so easily.
Even with the second Iraq war, our air power played a very important role in softening up defenses as well as providing support for ground troops. Even once the war turned to an occupation by the ground forces they still relied heavily from air power.
Same with Afghanistan, while the bulk of the air support now is by choppers, you can't get to the point of air superiority to allow them to operate with out first having the fighters & bombers clearing away with the other sides air defense network.
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