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Lu is from a German child program (“Der Maus” I believe it’s called). Next to this A319 there is also A321 D-AIRY featuring a mouse.

“Der Maus” is a program explaining stuff. And in one of their episodes they explained how planes where made. The two planes they used to explain it where A319 D-AILU and A321 D-AIRY.

Initially the planes flew in the regular livery. But after a lot of letters where send in by kids, LH decided to honour Lu and “Der Maus” on the airbusses featured in the program.

Not quite right.

Lu is the symbol of the Lufthansa child program.

The mouse (Die Maus) is on D-AIRY is there because htis german childrens TV program (Die Sendung mit der Maus) had been fllowing that plane from the cutting of the first metal to the first flight with Lufthansa and had devoted on series to that aircraft.

There is no direct connection between both symbols.

With hit to kill although you have to be more accurate (obviously 🙂 ) you also have more control over WHERE you want to hit the vehicle. As we saw in Desert Storm, many times a Patriot would hit a Scud but the warhead would keep right on coming.

Perhaps that was because the hit to kill variant of the Patriot was not in service then and they used a blast fragmentation wahrhead only modestly modified for use against theatre ballistic missiles.

urgent changes :

1. retire the Crusaders
2. replace with used F-16 prefarably to MLU standard with AMRAAM
3. built landing strips to disperse my fighters
4. upgarde the F-5 and add AMRAAM (or derby)
5. buy SAMs. Patriot, i-HAWK and Crotale NG (or comparable) and some Gepard SPAA. (no russian systems as I believe the enemy knows too much about them)

midterm changes :

1. add more F-16 preferably Block 60s and retire the A-4s (perfarably with SLAM-ER + JDAM + JSOW+ Penguin / NASW)
2. retire 2 Sqn of F-5s as well and replace with F-16 Block 60s
3. improve the C3 system
4. harden my airfields
5. buy 6 AWACS (E-2 or the swedish system)

so that leaves me with 7 Sqn of F-16 including 4 Block 60s. 3 Sqn of upgraded F-5.

longterm :

replace upgraded F-16s and F-5s with EF, Rafale or F-35. My choice would probably be EF with Meteor missiles.
replace i-Hawk and Crotale with MEADS

Reasons :

Russian systems are not intersting as I presume that the enemy knows them very well.
French would be an option, but there are not many used M2ks around to fill my short term needs. And operating 3 types would be an unneccesary burden in the long run.
No EF or something, as I can´t get them quickly enough. But a good option in the long term.

F-22 supercruises at Mach 1.5+

http://www.fas.org/MAN/dod-101/sys/ac/docs/n19990721_991378.htm

Who said that it should? All I’ve been saying from the beginning is that you are trying to compare apples to oranges. The other poster was originally talking about close in combat of which you will not be doing any at 800 knots. Where in that statement does it say an F-22 SHOULD slow down? If you want to stay at 800 knots then that’s great, you’re just not going to be doing a close in gunfight there. An NO I’m not saying you SHOULD.

Again I must ask, why should a F-22 pilot choose to fight a slow dogfight ?