In the first movie one F-14 took down a few super MiGs so I’m not sure where you get the idea you have to have equals. My premise is that the F-35C is a super jet if used correctly. The odds are never in one’s favor if the villain has a way to spoof you’re technology underpinnings, which in this case would be the GPS system. Smart weapons are very dependent on the GPS signals save but for the most expensive systems.

Aviation fans will love the nags on the F/A-18, especially since the best quote used against it came from an F-14 pilot. This makes the F-14 look like a uber jet even in this day and age. The villain country would just happen to be using said F-14. That’s a plot you don’t get with North Korea.

If you have a protagonist that can literally shoot down anything thrown at it unless the hero ‘gets it’ and uses his aircraft in such a way that nobody else would then he plays a similar role to Tom Cruise’s character.

You mean the fictional Super Mig? That doesn’t say the enemy was equal. They were supposedly better. As opposed to the Iranians suck as pilots in your story. You have them lying about taking down an F/A-18. Why not actually have them take down an F/A-18? No suspense in believing that the Iranians suck as pilots because they have to lie about taking one down. And all those other stories… the general public don’t know those stories so it’ll just be boring dialog that goes over their heads. The enemy is going to have to have stealth because that’s the unknown factor for suspense. Can an American pilot beat enemy stealth? That’s a realistic question. Yours… the Iranians lie because they’re hiding their lack of capability. That’s what you’re saying. So no need for the big battle in the end because everyone already knows how it’s going to end.

The problem is Top Gun wasn’t a Tom Clancy novel.

I doubt that……..Tom Cruise Hair is going to be on fire. By flying a UAV from a desk. Hardly, an exciting story line.

There’s no doubt about it. Tom Cruise in an interview with MTV mentioned him and Tony Scott were discussing possible ideas and that was one of them. Will it happen? Who’s knows?

Yeah, like the self destruct mechanism people were talking it had when this news first broke.

I guess the wishful thinkers that the US bombed the wreckage were wrong. It’s like my friend’s 12 year old son telling me about how US Navy Seals are in every country in the world.

Outsourcing helps the western capitalists as much as Indians its a mutual beneficial affair unlike China’s currency policy.

Talking about which while service sector outsourcing is done in India, manufacturing and all is done in China 😉

That’s a contradiction. Indian outsourcing is good while China’s is bad? Haven’t you heard? Foreign corporations choose to outsource to China because they can exploit lower costs. Just like with India no matter how you spin it. For what? Greed. And haven’t you heard? China is an end manufacturer of all those high tech toys that are owned and profitted by foreign corporations. All the parts are made in other countries. And what’s stopping Western governments from stopping outsourcing? Maybe China’s forcing them not to? Isn’t that an act of war? So why hasn’t there been a call to war? China’s pitiful military with its untrained troops and low quality arms too scary? What else excuses to cover up their own greed?

That would be hypocritical, given that until Feb 2011, the uK was still giving China aid – not loans, but free money

Yeah and the Opiums Wars were all about the British trying to stop the Chinese from using opium. Or the British gave Hong Kong a true democracy for China to take away. I love how the Europeans think they’re they’re some sort of victim. Remember this financial crisis was driven by 100% greed. Not some natural disaster or something that wasn’t under their control that put them in this situation. The Chinese should be wary. All they have to do is remember the Galileo project. China invested money but countries that had no investment had greater access. Like China has never experienced being screwed by the Europeans? And you don’t think China should be asking for extras? The Europeans are the ones out making it sound like it’s an honor to loan money to them. Well, deny that “honor” to China. All of the sudden the poor and backward of the world have to think about the rich Europeans first. History repeating itself.

I agree with Spitfireman, what are you on about?

Really that hard to understand? It’s nothing more than a guided missile so why make something more of it other than to spin and excite exaggerated threats. Like making Prompt Global Strike out to be something awesome when all it is is the most expensive way to deliver a conventional bomb.