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Originally Posted by Stealhead
Well you also have what the "brass" thinks and what the people who are doing the real thinking think.As an example once all the fancy missiles came along the DoD became one sighted and put too much faith into it.as a result they banned (yes) most forms of simulated dog fighting.Many Navy,USMC and USAF felt other wise and would still practice simulated dogfights as bets they could.
Of course doing so would get those involved in trouble so they had come to this banned training during other planned flights.At some point during the flight "bad weather" often forced them to fly a longer route.Actually for that extra time they simulating air to air combat.
I sometimes forget that non-military do not know how things work on the inside sometimes.As my old Senior NCO loved to say "you have to know the book and you have to know when to throw the book out the ........ door."
The funny thing about the Buccaneer is that SAC had started making the B-52 fly map-of-the-earth back in 1962(and the B-1B got that role inspired by the Buccaneer) so they knew this concept to be some what effective against the Soviets why such should the Buccaneer be such a shock? Of course that was a shock to the guys who write the book not the guys doing the actual thinking.
No organization is perfect in its thinking and conceptual processes someone can come up with a better idea that you did not.What is more important is how when exposed to something you learn from it.
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I was shocked some time ago to learn the tactics Buccaneers were initially trained to use should an interceptor manage to get on their tail at very low level.
As a last resort they were expected to drop a 500lb bomb thus 'hopefully' causing the interceptor fatal damage from the blast.
In later years they were of course kitted out with Sidewinder (usually just the one though).