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Originally Posted by Charlemagne Allen  You know what's really retarded idea? The whole US miitary circa 1960 saying, "Hey, dogfighting is dead! Let's not put machine guns on our interceptors and stick to these guided missiles that are untested in combat!" And then all the hi-tech American Thunderchiefs get shot down by Migs....
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There was a PBS doc years ago that had an old pilot telling that story, where the 'experts' had decided that dogfighting was dead. I think they though the only people with fighter jets were the Russians.
The retired Air Force general says that one day during Vietnam, he got into his plane with his young co-pilot and said, "We're going to go in low over the Delta, and we'll probably get hassled by some MiGs, but don't worry, I have it on good authority that
this is not happening!"
There was another Crazy Weapons thread once, the winner was the Russian Bomb Dog. I'll let someone else dig that story up, but it's a beaut.
Another to put here would be the 'Ontos' tank-killer of the 60s, a simple concept of 'bolt as many guns as you can to one vehicle!'
Cindy, your Sexy Quotient just shot way, way up (it was high enough already!) when you started talking about fighter plane canopies. Srsly!
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