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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 07:56:34 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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   @SpaceElf smart guys in the procurement game have said that a more serious military would have just procured a ton of F-16s for air supremacy, then had strike aircraft for the ground tgts.

   But real war considerations aren’t even like, in the top 5 of purpose for the service. It’s about the money, the prestige, the appearance, the fearsomeness, the ability to terrify would-be enemies from taking policy directions against the US’ will…. basically everything BUT actually duking it out w/ a peer enemy

   Though this tactic is….very unrealistic now that we can’t get the pilots for it. Pilots are expensive and rare to create, competent fighters? Very expensive to foster. The idea that we could just have 10,000 of them waiting around for the WWWIII air battle just isn’t in the cards. They don’t like spending money on people, just the gear