RE: Fighter Group Turn around time was: YAFS

At 2:48 PM -0700 2/3/04, B Lin wrote:
>Yes and no.  Current jets like the F-18 come in 
>two slightly different versions, one for ground 
>attack, one for air-superiority.  ALthough an 
>F-18 can carry something like 14,000 lbs of 
>ordinance, it pales in comparison to the 50,000 
>lbs that a B-52 can carry over 4 times the 
>range.  In addition, the F-18 is limited to 2000 
>lbs bombs, wheras the B-52 can carry up larger 
>ones.

And the BUFF crew can go to the head!

>The question would then be, can anti-ship craft 
>enter the atmosphere with no appreciable loss in 
>performance?

I've always assumed that the aerospace fighters 
that were used in DS were either generic or 
attack fighters from FT. It doesn't do to not 
have atmosphere capable fighters when you're 
supporting Dirtside combat ops.
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