In article <6omdndZ4d4zQRnbEnZ2dnUU7-RHNnZ2d@supernews.com>, Byker says...
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>"Miloch" wrote in message news:osgahp0em6@drn.newsguy.com...
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>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/air-force-recall-1000-retired-military-pilots-address/story?id=50629597
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>> The United States Air Force could recall as many as 1,000 retired military
>> pilots to active-duty service to address an acute shortage in its ranks.
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>Sounds like "stop-loss" to me. If these pilots are of retirement age, how
>well are they expected to perform in the cockpit of, say, an F-35?
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The F-35 is an embarrassment...and at $100M each!...so far, not considered as
good as the F-16...I guess what the Air Force needs is more F-16 pilots.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-went-wrong-with-the-f-35-lockheed-martins-joint-strike-fighter/
testing pitted the F-35 against an F-16, one of the fighters it is slated to
drag-inducing and heavy externally mounted weapons or fuel tanks. The F-16D, a
heavier and somewhat less capable training version of the mainstay F-16C, was
further encumbered with two 370-gallon external wing-mounted fuel tanks.
F-35A was less maneuverable and markedly inferior to the F-16D in a visual-range
dogfight.
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