From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: Still kicking...
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:23:42 +0000

*****PRIVATE: Arashi
>>>>>[BVR, hah... Nice kill if you can get it, but too many people
forget that the key syllable of "missile" is "miss". Plus you need
clear
target ID, or the blue-on-blues get embarrasing. Real-world, you usually
need VID... every other non-cooperative ID technique except the Mark
Three Eyeball seems to fall over almost before it's mature.

Oddly enough, in Sasha's MiGs we actually aim for the same thing; blow
through the BVR phase as fast as possible, we're usually disadvantaged
there. Get in close and play the angles for a guns kill, not many
airframes do that better than a MiG-57. If you get a missile shot on the
way, take it, but don't count on it: but nobody's worked out how to jam
impact-fused thirty-millimetre shells yet.


Jason wouldn't sneer at the drones, he'd MIJI their comms freqs. Send
them crazy at least, or flip their IFF interrogator and have them flag
you as "hostile" if he could. High-tech jujutsu, he calls it, turn the
enemy's equipment on itself. I actually quite like the idea, though it
makes the controlling aircraft more of a target... kill that and the
drones are much easier marks. Tricky, especially if some penny-pinching
economist declares that with this you can sortie solo, who needs a
wingman with these drones for cover?


Anyway, tell O'Roarke the CAS procurement thugs are a piece of cake
compared ours, and give Jenny our best. And have fun, not that that
should be a problem, and keep shining up the tails of those CAS bozos
for us.

I heard Pinkett was on the CAS eval team, that so? If it is, buy him
dinner from Jason and I, we're good for it :) ]<<<<<
-- Lilith <23:14:36/02-12-59>