Fighter Pilot Terminology
06-12-2013, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Hilltopper89
Merge: The point where the command and control asset's (AWACS) radar can no longer differentiate separate radar hits. The friendly airplane and the bogey have "merged" into a single radar return.
"Merge plot"
"ah %^#$@#"
06-12-2013, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by HuggyU2
I'm no fighter pilot,... but in this day and age, I'd say the fight should be over long before the merge.
Any fighter pilot who thinks it can't come down to guns anymore is in the running to be the last fighter pilot in history to die in a gun fight...
They tried that back in the 'nam or so I've heard.
06-12-2013, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Any fighter pilot who thinks it can't come down to guns anymore is in the running to be the last fighter pilot in history to die in a gun fight...
They tried that back in the 'nam or so I've heard.
They tried that back in the 'nam or so I've heard.
If that we're the case, they would've put a gun on the JSF.
Sarcasm, unboxed.
06-13-2013, 03:34 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Any fighter pilot who thinks it can't come down to guns anymore is in the running to be the last fighter pilot in history to die in a gun fight...
They tried that back in the 'nam or so I've heard.
They tried that back in the 'nam or so I've heard.
In fact I flew a couple sets of gun only ACM yesterday. (Bragging...)
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