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Originally Posted by mark46th
I read somewhere about the F-22's being tested against F-15's. The F-15 pilots said they go up, they get shot down. They go up again, they get shot down again and again...
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Yep, but the few F-22s we own have a limited number of missiles on board, not to mention fuel.
You let someone take out the closest bases, and get through to our tankers, several countries posess enough aircraft to take that first punch, and keep coming. Then what do we do?
As we used to say about the Soviets, quantity has a quality all its own.
TR
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