Falcos_Commisar
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Piggy wants a punching bag he can make fun of and show how "smart" he is. That's all. He probably sobered up and realized the absolute anal rammaging he'd get is he went anywhere near a firearm.This is why I can't take him seriously. His bias is palpable. John Boyd was a autist. One that had some wild theories at the time, many of which proved to be true. Fuck off
Boyd's theories were perfect for 1950s gun armed jet fighters and older prop driven gun fightersBoyd was right on some stuff, way off on others, but his biggest sin was the cabal he collected around him being self aggrandizing retards and liars. That and every infantry officer I've ever met who used the phrase 'OODA Loop' has either been relieved of duty or medically retired for something that was their own fault.
However he and his acolytes took it to retarded extremes.
More like a "there is no need for fighter jet technology to progress past a F-100 Super Saber"So he was trying to pull an SU-57 at the advent of BVR shit?
Yep, remember, restrictive IFF requirements caused a lot of USAF and USN jets in Vietnam to waste their speed and altitude and bvr weapon advantages so they could slow down and go see the Mig before they could engage. Absolutely idiocy.Most Reformers consider anything not visual ID as iffy at best, a liability at worst. Aircraft aren't really my thing, but thinking on it, seems like the original pure fighter F-16 would have been a fix to the F-4's problem's in 'Nam. Which the F-15 was supposed to be, until the Pentagon ruined it by putting a second engine and enough electronics to kill things before they got in gun range, ruining it as a dog fighter.
Wait, was Boyd a spiritual Marine who got lost and ended up in the AF? Abrasive, problems with authority, independent, lashed to tradition.. Like a lot of his disregard for technology and need for specialized tools makes sense for the Stockholm Syndrome of the Poverty Branch. Maneuver Warfare was a perfect fit for them and they love the OODA Loop. It makes sense to be wary of new developments and stick to the old ways when 'new developments' have been sitting unused in an Army warehouse for 25 years before you get them.
The "reformers" were apoplectic when they heard the F-16 would be getting a radar. They wanted a radar-less jet.
Also, a lot of the reformer types were completely ignorant of smart weapons and the like. They didn't understand that a low level bombing run to take out a bridge became an obsolete tactic in the early 1970s....
Yep, the F-15E taking over from the F-111 must have broken people's brains.The F-15 being the better bomb truck all along is somewhere between sad and funny.