well, the files are from CDI, a Washington think tank that is comprised mostly of military men.
some points they mentioned:
-Israel valued their Mirage IIIs more than their F-4’s in air to air combat
-Pakistani F-86’s achieved more kills than their larger Indian counterparts
-Me 262s were superior, but overcome by larger number of inferior P-51s, etc
-quantity is emphasized
some suggestions they make or imply:
-the next fighter should be around 11 million
-the next fighter should be physically small
-the next fighter should have a bubble canopy and good rear view
-The F-5 and earlier F-16s were the closest to their ideal design, and in some ways, so was the F-104
-the next fighter should be bought in quantity and overwhelm the opponents
-the next generation aerial warfare will see aircraft turning their radars off
Yes, i am familiar both with CDI and Pierre Sprey…
I’d like to suggest some reading for ya… Read Mind of War by Grant Tedrick Hammond, then read some of John Boyd briefings, (He only wrote one book for the USAF in the 1960’s, rest of material is in epicly long briefings, look at USMC archives for this) Concentrate on his EM theories and the later thoeries he had about OODA and its relation to temporal warfare. This should start to answer some of your questions. Then move onto some of the joint briefings presented by the Fighter Mafia in the 1980’s… Not sure where these are online, i got a copy from some profs i think.
I think you’ll enjoy it, John Boyd is a favorite thoerist of mine, espeically his later work on manuveur warfare with the USMC and temporal based warfare, very Sun Tzu. He work on the evolution of Warfare called Patterns of Conflict is also good. Geez, one must not forget Destruction and Creation… sound like a salesman, sorry. However he is good and interesting…
In my personal opinion he is undervalued while John Warden is a bit overvalued… No offense to Col Warden who is a brilliant tactian.
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