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Something for the brits

Post by philip_hughes » Thu, 5. Oct 17, 21:15

https://youtu.be/eM-1gBW4Ng0


British pilot takes on the Americans in simulated combat and kicks posterior.

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Post by Alan Phipps » Thu, 5. Oct 17, 22:22

It sounds like an enjoyable exercise for us Brits in terms of 4 vs 4 ship engagements (given some pre-agreed dumbing down of the weapons systems involved). However, if you were to express the combatant numbers in terms of % of total in-theatre fighter capability available to them, I think that any realistic effective combat attrition rates would have seen far greater advantage to the US side.

Also I think the Brits were obviously playing day-to-day mind-games with the US air controllers - not that that would be a bad strategy mind.
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Post by philip_hughes » Thu, 5. Oct 17, 22:28

Of course. In actual combat they had a high probability of being splashed from over the horizon. Still, the missiles may have failed or the brits may have found a way to evade them.
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Post by Morkonan » Thu, 5. Oct 17, 22:49

One doesn't make an ally out of an incompetent military... :)

If the Brits didn't win some of these sorts of training engagements then they wouldn't be worth going into battle with.

So, as a proud 'Murican, I salute our brave allies and celebrate their victory! (Maybe, next time, we won't tie one wing behind our back just to make it a fair contest... ;) )
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Post by Usenko » Fri, 6. Oct 17, 02:28

Real combat engagements today are pretty dull (and quite horrifying) - the winner is the side that sees the others first, and looses off a salvo of missiles which arrive too quickly to be decoyed . . .
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Post by Morkonan » Fri, 6. Oct 17, 05:07

The winner is the one that doesn't have @$%$ assploading all around them at the time. They're also the ones that have enough time to reflect on the fact that they may be winning...
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Post by BigBANGtheory » Fri, 6. Oct 17, 11:32

That's quite funny, there is I'm sure respect from both sides as we have atm the US training the Brits on the F35 plane.

Either way DCS F/A-18C can't come soon enough :)
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Post by muppetts » Fri, 6. Oct 17, 15:50

Nice story and link thx!
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Post by Rapier » Fri, 6. Oct 17, 19:09

The winner is ...
No-one
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Post by philip_hughes » Tue, 10. Oct 17, 04:07

Rapier wrote:
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