"jokingly made by Grumman..."
Actually l don't challenge that. Nor l will claim a real world relevance but your post here
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might have encouraged people who couldn't see a difference between written Chinese and Japanese to further investigate
to find out more about
VE-1 Elintstrike. As the basic Macross design is the F-14 and nerds in Grumman no doubt returned the favour after watching the relevant episode where one is shot down to create a POW situation for dramatic highpoint tricked the Grumman Management to pay for... a 21st Century Tomcat that could operate all the carrier missions on its own, including AEW. Without any explanations. That might be used against the A-6F and E-2C/D programmes at the time. As noted in the picture Iranians had used theirs as mini-Awacs planes to passable results...
Actually Macross warfare with barrage fire of dozens of AAMs at once strangely seems rather relevant to the Pacific scenarios of today. Japanese anime, 50 years ago...
Let's check this one here...
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Had to do some internet searches myself to understand what was what. And relevant people never saw that but apparently it is an anime that aired between 2002 and 2005. Check out the Stealthy drop tanks, "deep magazines" and the drone with equal firepower! Turns out there is still an AEW version with te rotodome that can control 3 drones at once...
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A person on the internet is famous within reason. Asked about this, he said there were three more cases where he was ahead of the rest. One is a year and a half at most and basically unproveable. It is ten years in regards to F-35 but he DIDN'T say S-400, so that clearly doesn't count. Would be nice to say it was a round number but the last case might be just about fifteen years and a quarter and Dan Pedersen had obliquely hinted at it in his book.
This needs an explanation. A group of former naval aviators from the US were pushing for a "lighter type" some years back. That would have less range and more ability for close in fighting. Citing the situation is no different to the Soviet problem at the height of Cold War and Tomcats would lead A-6s upto a thousand miles from the carriers to intercept Russian bomber brigades. I understand the notion originally goes back to the 1960s where jets were to guide SAMs fired from ships. Meaning A-6s would be replaced by unmanned vehicles carrying AAMs. Sounds familiar? The range problem would be solved by a coup in Philippinnes, if that really was necessary...
This is important; Top Gun is a cinema "masterpiece" everybody knows, Top Gun Global War on Terror would have been cool for some starring the F-35 but it had some issues. In short the reputation of ALL Top Gun graduates must suffer. Meaning an Osprey author was leaked documents that clearly prove a certain engagement did not end in the way it has been depicted for a while. Apparently the Vietnamese have refused to accept a Chinese veteran of the Korean War and indeed a Colonel, was fighting on the day and that Osprey edition is still on hold. Mind, the person on the internet clearly remembers reading an account that might relate to recorded transmissions about "Here comes the Sixth" and the Osprey edition might still turn out to be wrong. [/SPOILER]
yep, proven wrong already.
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