Get over it ! The cold war is over … And as far as unmanned is concerned there are plenty of programs in operation, soon to enter operations and panned for the future..Both in the US, Europe and indeed Russia…It is well known that the DOD wants the LRS-B to be optionally manned in the future, this has been widely claimed and is believed by many into aviation matters.

DoD wants a lot of things, DoD does not get a lot of things.

The unmanned bs is just another White Paper, “we don’t need guns” paper tiger floated by people who do not have to pay for anything or go into battle.

Russia will not fall for it again, but the brew-ha-ha about any unmanned wonder planes is probably from the same star-wars weapon playbook that Reagan used to make possible enemies spend millions to defend against a weapon that did not exist.

Never forget that only a tiny fraction of leaked or released information is based on fact.

I suppose they could have been “Sleepers” and waiting for the right moment. It’s certainly going to sour the relationships with Russia, as far as the U.S.A is concerned, if the perps were indeed from there.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

They knew they were Chechens. They had contacted Russia about their travel over there long before the bombing, which the Obama administration first denied but now admits they did but the administration said they did not know these boys on the terror watch had returned.
Their relatives here and over there say they had been radicalized.

The Naked Gun

One of Leslie Neilsen’s best films. Still great fun after the dozenth time!

They should have NEVER replaced Peter Lupus with O.J. Simpson.
Simpson was lousy.

Other than that, great movie.

RpR, that was before 1992 (TAC was abolished in 1992). I assume this was 48th FIS?

F-16s were considerably weaker then – many didn’t have AIM-7 Sparrow or AIM-120 capability and their radar was more limited.

I suspect an F-15C/D is still going to smack an F-16C/D Blk 50 about, but it’s probably going to be a closer fight than in 1989-92.

No it was the 318th which I thought was the last but the 48 was the last two years later. The 318th deactivated 7th December, 1989.
Their aircraft moved a few hundred miles to the 123 fighter interceptor squadron in Oregon, which is a Air National Guard squadron and one of the few that has it squadron symbol on the tail of the aircraft.

The the Idaho, Mountain Home AFB F-15C aircraft being deactivated, that leaves the F-15s of the 114th and 123rd in Oregon as the main defenders of U.S. air space south of Alaska.
Oddly the 114th not only still has it squadron emblem on the tail, but it isl in full color.

Oblivion

Not perfect but excellent.

But then would it not make more sense to up-grade the F-16s and buy more F-35 faster, than to have such a small sub-fleet of limited worth.

The F-15 is a far better air to air fighter than the F-16.
The Air Force does not want to find itself in the bone-head mode that forced them to build the sixteen and fifteen in the first place.
If one wants air superiority aircraft you do not choose the second best as a fill in.

In the last exercise of a U.S. Air Defense Command, the last squadron of ADC (under TAC command) F-15A went against the newest F-16s and spanked them.
They returned to base and a weak later were decommissioned.

I take it these miniture aircraft are to flown by Munchkins as no normal size human would fit.

The ramp launched 104s and 100s did not use Rato or Jato as they are some times called bottles.
They used a special system that was never put into production.
Rato bottles are now all gone and no more are being produce.
The last were used to demonstrate how they were used for take off assistance on either the Thunderbirds or Blue Angels C-130. The are all gone now.

Many years ago, Walt Arfons tried to use them in cluster to set a land speed record. They did not produce enough thrust to even get the car up to 500 mph so how a Rato bottle would make your aircraft supersonic would me a rewriting of basic physics, which on paper of come into absolute conflict with the forces of the natural world.