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Neither the US Marine Corps nor Army is large enough to work the (as you point out) vast Pacific Rim alone. Fixed airfields are precision fire magnets (considering CVN are targetable, non-maneuvering airfields are even easier). The USAF has in fact started looking at VTOL means assist in operating in smaller groupings. To stop VTOL operations you have to bomb every football pitch, parking lot and farmers fields. Then the Army has acknowledged that conventional helicopters have marginal (at best) utility in the theater. This is one of the main drivers for the FVL efforts. As to the less cover, I will agree with you on that, but the world is round(ish) and radar still has to follow the rules of physics.

[QUOTE="yasotay, post: 454882, member: 291"] Neither the US Marine Corps nor Army is large enough to work the (as you point out) vast Pacific Rim alone. Fixed airfields are precision fire magnets (considering CVN are targetable, non-maneuvering airfields are even easier). The USAF has in fact started looking at VTOL means assist in operating in smaller groupings. To stop VTOL operations you have to bomb every football pitch, parking lot and farmers fields. Then the Army has acknowledged that conventional helicopters have marginal (at best) utility in the theater. This is one of the main drivers for the FVL efforts. As to the less cover, I will agree with you on that, but the world is round(ish) and radar still has to follow the rules of physics. [/QUOTE]

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