Sure, no problem, I understand all that.
Actually my "agenda" (three posts in a week) is about out of ammo anyways. I had three points to make:
1. The MA is quite crowded, so the "finding the fight" argument for AWACS is dead.
2. AWACS gives us capabilities to use day fighters to make blind intercepts of maneuvering targets, well enough to get within guns range, something that could not be done so easily in WWII.
3. AWACS gives us instant IFF capability of distant bandits that was not equalled by WWII day fighters.
That's the extent of my agenda. I don't have any more points to make. But they were distinct points, and needed to be made seperately. The longer a thread goes, the less communication occurs, due to hijacking and short attention spans, so I used three seperate threads to do this.
And in the course of all this I found some answers that I am pleased with. There are some new radar settings (to be first used in Big Week) that will enable in-flight and tower radar modes to be set up differently from each other. And HTC have increased their effort in developing the Combat Theater into a viable 24/7 arena. Put those two together and I am a happy camper.
[ 12-05-2001: Message edited by: funkedup ]
