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Thanky You!!!!!Well lets see, a friend of mine who is now a Blackhawk Crewchief in my unit, was a Tomcat mechanic in the Navy and he said that when an alert happened it took them 2 minutes to get the first 2 Tomcats in the air, thats 2 minutes my friend. Not a bad time to get into the air. He said the next 2 would take about 3 to 4 minutes to get into the air. Okay 5 to 6 minutes for 4. So in 4 minutes you can have 30 to 35 Pheonix missles on Tomcats climbing to alltitude. Once the Tomcats are to Alltitude the Tomcat can fire those 30 to 35 missles at targets at ranges that the Lightning has to fly to.
I will say this again. The Tomcat is more overall capable than the Lightning, The Tomcat can carry a better overall weapons package than the Lightning, the Tomcat has a better overall avionix package than the Lightning, The Tomcat is the premier Cold War interceptor. The Tomcat is a better ovarall aircraft than the Lightning. Period!!!!
syscom3 said:One thing Id like to point out is if the Tomcat was carrier based, there would be the potential of weather conditions at sea that would preclude the launching of any aircraft.
The Lightning would never see conditions like that thus could sortie.
then why are the bombers there? if they will bomb the others will retaliate and kill the bomber which will make the Soviets retaliateGnomey said:Cold war, to shoot it down would of brought reliation from the Soviets so they didn't, they just shadowed them until they where out of the West's airspace.
Good pics pD.
loomaluftwaffe said:and they didnt get anywhere, just wasted some fuel
No the could hook up with a tanker if they had to and continue on - the F-14 had pretty long legs...loomaluftwaffe said:ok fine, besides tomcats use up more fuel dont they? and they're just gonna escort them till they get the hell out of your backyard
FLYBOYJ said:loomaluftwaffe said:and they didnt get anywhere, just wasted some fuel
No - it was a game that tested the will of both sides - valuable photo infomation was also gathered during these intercepts....
Very true hussars although the Soviets still tried and didn't get very far...102first_hussars said:FLYBOYJ said:loomaluftwaffe said:and they didnt get anywhere, just wasted some fuel
No - it was a game that tested the will of both sides - valuable photo infomation was also gathered during these intercepts....
You guys had been winning the spy plane game for years, first the U2 then the Blackbird.
Not true - I believe during GW2 several F-14s were being used as a bomber. As far as kills, I don't think there was a single air-to-air engagement during GW2, the Iraqi Air Force basically didn't exist...Royzee617 said:BTW I read in a Tomcat book that the USAF kept the F14 back during the second GW so they could rack up the kills.