I was just wondering, the hawks and alpha jets are fairly manoeuvrable, if you strip them of everything inside (like radar etc) and then use them with just a helmet cueing system and datalinks for situational awareness from GCI/AWACS (to substitute for radar), wouldn’t they then make excellent point defence fighters?
Wouldn’t they be more agile and be able to beat any modern and moderately loaded fighter in a dogfight? (example: a full spec F16C Block 50/52 with 2 JDAMs, 2 AMRAAMS and 2 Sidewinders)

I can understand asking Pakistan for night vision goggles and stuff but satellite images?
Am I wrong in thinking that only the P5 of the UNSC and Israel, Japan and India had satellites of sufficient resolution to be of significant use in CI operations?

I don’t want to be rude, but have you looked at either a map, or the strengths of the Indian & Sri Lankan armed forces? Sri Lanka can’t reach Bangladesh (with which it has no quarrels, & never has had any)

I agree, In fact Sri Lanka has never had any quarrels with any country whatsoever, these weapons will be used against the rebels and not for some fantasy invasion.

Countries in part one were easy to guess.

I thought I had the ones in part 2 figured out as well but then got confused after reading the last part.

Drop me a PM and tell me who is A,B,C in part 2 if you have excess spare time……

Hilarious posts though 😀

And basically it’s a good idea. The men coming out of Annapolis (or any other) still think they are better, just because they had three years of theory and a white uniform. It really is more of a social thing than a military thing.
I would never promote a guy to the rank of officer from the green, only if he served with the troops before. Like in Napoleon’s army. In the military people should have to earn a rank, not get it awarded (which is basically the result of long peace times). If he qualifies for higher leadership in the lower ranks, *then* he should attend the academy, etc. Exceptions are technical ranks, which should really have their own scheme.

But it is like that isn’t it?

People who excel as enlisted personnel and non coms can become officers by going through OCS.

As for the academy officers, they have proven themselves by achieving a required standard. They got till college and got through the rigorous academic obstacles of the academy and so they deserve it.
They may not have the relevant experience upon graduation but they are expected to have a lot more potential.

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Well said WHITE CLOUD, I completely agree with you :rolleyes:

On a more serious note,
Any sub collision theory has to be thrown out the window more or less due to the sheer size and tonnage of the Kursk.
It’s the biggest sub around, no LA class (or any other British/French sub) would survive a collision with the Kursk in which the Kursk itself was so badly damaged.
However it is still plausible that the collision was a minor one n then it set off secondary explosions (of torpedos or whatever) in the Kursk but not in the “Western” sub.

A longer range radar is *generally* also more powerful, it will offer you more engagement modes, operational modes and is far more flexible, the range is one thing in the package. Of course this isn’t always true.

Also I don’t think anyone has mentioned this yet but the F-15 pilot can launch the Amraam anyway (even if he knows it’s not going to hit). The F16 pilot has no way of knowing that the opposing aircraft is an F-15 or that the incoming missile is an Amraam which won’t hit.
His equipment will only tell him he’s been locked onto and there is a missile on it’s way. His radar will not have detected the F-15 yet.
This will force the F-16 to go into evasive manouvering and bleed of precious energy instead of setting up for a BVR kill (going supersonic with your choice of altitude and angle).
All this while the F-15 will be setting up it’s own BVR kill for the next missile which will infact be in range.

Isn’t that a Rafale then?
Seems like a description of the Rafale.
I assume it would be cheaper to just buy the Rafale off the shelf in such a case.