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Originally Posted by edslunch
Depends who we plan on fighting. For anyone outside the first world/major powers we can assume that air defences have already been obliterated - see Iraq, Libya, Bosnia, etc. Standard modus operandi - all we need is a bomb truck like the CF 18.
Even for sophisticated adversaries do we expect to be among the first ones in on a hot war? I just don't see the need for a fifth gen plane. If the missions are so risky use drones
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You can't make assumption like that.
Plus we were in on the initial work in Libya for example.
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