I have been watching this thread occaisionally so forgive me if this has already been mentioned. People seem to be talking about a 4/5 gen aircraft being the primary aircraft in the US/EU armoury but because of the cost only in limited numbers.
Surly what will be happening is the F35’s/F22’s etc will be bought by a larger number of airforces but the majority of these (including US/EU) will operate them alongside F16’s and F18’s for more specialist roles and due to the high cost?
Personally I think that too much attention is being paid by the pundits to the F-35 and not enough to the use of cruise missiles for surprise attacks and UAVs for CAS for ‘regular’ Army and special forces.
I am very surprised that the pundits have forgotten how effective cruise missiles were during GW1 in attacking and destroying military targets within areas highly populated with civilians.
I was under the impression that all ETPS aircraft were painted a very patriotic red, white and blue. Although RAF training aircraft are painted black and I guess ETPS aircraft are training aircraft too…?
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