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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
Thank you August;  One overlooked possible factor with unmanned cheap rehabs is the lack of finesse possible, No need to dogfight, just RAM when all else fails. And then ... launch a new rehab(after lunch) from the desert boneyard! That MIG may not out-perform an F-16 but the kamikaze threat will deter any mission considerably. Axiom 2: 'numbers have cachet of their own'; an outnumbered F-16 may get a few in a distance standoff missile-wise but something WILL get through. The Germans learned this first hand at Kursk when their superior tanks were simply rammed by Russian T-34 tanks-and the great 'defense war' back to Berlin started.  |
There ain't that many aircraft in those boneyards that one could waste them in kamikaze attacks. As for numbers having a cachet of their own that's true but you should remember that there are a lot more Migs in the world than there are F16's. Oh and the T-34 was not an inferior tank. It was comparable and in many aspects superior to the German.