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That may be true, but when the adversaries are making their SAM systems, command and control assets, and other high valued targets mobile, long range cruise missiles are ineffective. If it takes the cruise missile an hour to fly to the target but the enemy can move the target within 30 minutes, what good is the missile doing? You have to have penetrating assets that can release weapons that will get on target before the target can move.

Cruise missiles can be redirected in flight.

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You also aren't going to take out hardened and/or buried targets with a cruise missile.

Build better fricking cruise missiles. It's cheaper than buy a 1000 jets that aren't worth what they cost. Or, just use our bombers to actually bomb targets.

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Posted by AbuTheMonkey

Chicago, IL

Member since May 2014

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Posted on 9/13/15 at 4:07 am to GeauxxxTigers23

These Air Force retards spend far too much time in a classroom and not enough time on the ground.

The likelihood of a near-peer conflict is virtually nil. You can have fewer 35's and 22's to develop and maintain the tech and still have the Warthog for actual, no-shite combat. If people think we're going to be rolling against Iran or North Korea and are directing strategic resources thereto anytime soon, they're pretty stupid. Hybrid state/non-state (like in Ukraine and arguably Syria) conflicts are the future.

The ground soldier is still, ultimately, the shot-caller. There should be no debate about that, and the Army and Marines still want the platform. Keep it.

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Posted by FlyingTiger06

Bossier City, LA

Member since Nov 2004

1894 posts

Posted on 9/13/15 at 9:03 am to GeauxxxTigers23

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Cruise missiles can be redirected in flight

SOME cruise missiles can get updated coordinates in flight, but then you have to have some asset providing those coordinates. For the targets I'm talking about, that's not real easy to accomplish and hence is the problem.