On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 12:21 Asia/Seoul, Aaron Nowack wrote:

Not that the human's don't have their own advantages: though there are
plenty of youma that can fly, none that aren't General-class are likely
to last long against a modern, supersonic fighter jet.

Supersonic fighters tend to have really high stall-speeds, and aren't 
good for loitering.

ISTR ME-262s had difficulties engaging prop-driven fighters because of 
the speed difference -- the prop-planes were more agile, but the ME-262 
could run away better, and more easily set up an attack vector.

Hmm... at least assuming that the weapons systems on a jet would be 
able
to target slow-moving, low-flying (semi-)organic opponents without a
major overhaul.  Since I have absolutely no idea on that issue, any
experts care to comment?

A-10 Warthogs, or any of the AC (AC-47 through AC-130U) side-firing 
gunships would be effective, but probably messy.

Prop-driven ground-attack craft can almost certainly be dug out of 
mothballs, but are probably as vulnerable to Youma as they are to 
shoulder-fired missles.

I think, though, that it was radar-guided SAMs that pretty much spelled 
the end for the prop-driven ground-attack plane, rather than the 
shoulder-fired stuff.

Anyway,
	Suika
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