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A better air structure in Iraq would be several squadrons of MQ-9s, with F-16s/A-10s backing them up. Not the other way around. The tactical fighter is NOT the ideal platform for the missions we have been flying throughout the '90s and 00's.
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I gotta agree with PD on this one, it's about reaction times, if you see an insurgant and you have posident you've got to have the equipment on hand to do the job at that moment, not to hang around for half an hour while the fast movers haul ass to your location only to find that the insurgants have disappeared underground through a trapdoor in a house or something.
I'm not saying do away with the F-16s and A-10s, but to keep them as CAS to the UAV, for when it runs out of ammo or spots something that it can't kill the conventional way.