Re: The end of the Air Force

Cheeze wrote: 
juandelecruise wrote:

Pinas does not need air superiority fighters; we need counterinsurgency
and ground support aircraft.  Doesn't PAF have the Bronco?  That's the
perfect COIN airiopleyn, and there shouldn't be any trouble converting
civilian Cessnas and Beechcraft.  They come out of the factory with
underwing hard points.

And a few Stingers wouldn't hurt the morale of ground troops. 

Exactly!  If any country will invade us, a few junkety F-5 won't stop even
the Vietnamese Air Force with its Migs. I believe that what we need is a
cheaper air defence system which could include Stinger missiles, Vulcan Air
defense system, Oerlikon guns, or Bofors anti-aircraft missiles.



I agree with just about every comment here.

My wish list for PAF:

A-10 Tank Killers

AH-64 Apache

F-15

F-16

F/A-18 (so that we can have decent air shows!)

If you want air shows, the F-16 is your best candidate, followed far behind by the F-15. No heavy fighter, specially those extra heavy carrier capable Navy pieces of *** can perform aerobatics like the cheapo F-16.

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