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Re:Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight by ongoodie on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @07:33AM (#9804414)
In the full-scale war the fighter planes are useless cause the air bases and carriers will be nuked out in the first hour. So the reality is that the planes are not made for fights, they are made for parades.
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Re:Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight by thrownaway2424 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:50AM (#9806136)
Quite. Carriers are useless in a war of equals. They will be at the bottom of the ocean in the opening minutes of the war.

But they are brilliant against barbarians, which seem to be our main enemy these days.

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Re:Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight by tim333 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:31PM (#9806978)
In a full scale nuclear war most things would be useless. The US however has managed to use it's planes a fair bit since WW2 though and not just for parades.
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