The other big tactical innovation was the boom and zoom. Americans tried to only attack from above in a diving slash. Then they would continue straight on at high speed, disengaging. One of the few advantages the early war American fighters had over the Japanese Zeros and Oscars was speed and control in a dive. By making the fight vertical they forced it on their terms. They couldn't climb with the Japanese, so they typically just broke off after the first attack, regrouped and tried to regain that altitude (and therefore potential energy) advantage. Claire Chenault developed this tactic in China even before the US entered the war.
Stealth is a way overhyped technology. It can be marginally effective against microwave active systems, but does nothing against long wave active rigs. The cost of defeating stealth is a fraction of the cost of implementing it. There is really only one kind of stealth that is effective in the real world and that is not radiating and having good passive systems. The Russians excel at this. Their passive sensors are powerful and their passive missiles are the best in the world. Until recently NATO didn't even try to develop passive air to air missiles. The SU-27 has 90% of the F-22's flight capabilities at a fraction of the operating and capital cost. Three SU-27s, especially with American engines and avionics, would be several times more effective than a single F-22. The most important qualities in an air-superiority fighter have always been range, speed and weapons delivery. The SU-27 is faster than the F-22, has a greater combat radius and except for Beyond Visual Range, is a better weapons platform. BVR has only recently become at all useful in environments where we enjoy total air superiority and perfect information. In a full on war with a relatively numerous and organized enemy like Russia, it would revert back to a hypothetical combat mode. And once you are in visual range, those faster SUs can catch you and deploy those amazing dogfight missiles of theirs.
The exact same thing happens except in both directions. As the weave crosses, each pursued plane presses the attack on his partner's pursuer, forcing him to disengage pursuit. That is what made it so effective. It transforms a tactical disadvantage into an advantage. Basically in a two on two the defenders are setting a double pick. The Weave was about timing, not numbers.
We did eventually overwhelm the Japanese with numbers as well. By that time we also had better planes for the most part. And unlike any of the Axis forces we had 100 octane avgas. The best Japanese fighters outperformed our Mustangs, Hellcats and even Corsairs, when we ran captured examples on our fuel. But in Japanese service they were castrated by low octane fuel. We also trained our pilots better. The Japanese started the war with lots of experienced pilots, but their replacements had no more than 20 hours in the air. Our own replacements were very well trained. The great Japanese Ace Sakai Saburo used to say the Japanese Navy viewed pilots as consumables. He also had this to say about American tactics,
I don't think they were as skilled in individual combat as the Japanese were. But the boom-and-zoom tactics they developed to take advantage of the Zero's inability to dive well were very effective.
I am confident that Japanese pilots were superior on a one-on-one basis. But the ability to work as a team both offensively and defensively that the Americans had was very impressive. Perhaps this comes from the team spirit and thinking they developed playing American football. This hit us particularly hard in the air engagements from the middle war onwards (teamwork and search patterns).
That second quote referred to the Thach Weave, which BTW does not rely on superior numbers. It is a method for forcing double teams. Boom n' zoom refers to restricting your engagements to situations where you possess superior energy. Basically it means attacking in a dive and breaking off immediately, only re-engaging when you have regained your altitude advantage.
There were a lot of other factors too, such as the Japanese lack of usable radios.
The Thach Weave didn't require superior numbers. It was just a method of creating double teams (or quadruple teams). My point wasn't that the Thach Weave won the air war. It was that it negated the superior speed, roll and turn rate the Zero enjoyed over the Wildcat and Buffalo. Tactics trump technology. In the words of the great Japanese ace Sakai Saburo,
"It was fighter against fighter in WWI, but in WWII it was group against group. The Japanese were very bad at this, but the Americans used the philosophy of American football - teamwork. Excellent."
He didn't ask who had fighters as good as the US. He asked who has an Air Force as good as the US. Like the Soviet VVS, The Russian VVS, has some great planes. And it is considerably more advanced in tactics and electronics. However, it has no money and consequently is terribly undertrained and has awful readiness. The best Sukhoi fighters in Russian service are indeed better than the F-15, but not enough. One of the great lessons of the early stages of the Pacific air war in WWII was that sound tactics are more important than technical superiority. The Japanese outclassed the US in both planes and individual pilot skills. Largely thanks to Jimmy Thatch, we overcame those advantages with better tactics and cooperation. We had to relearn that lesson in Vietnam, with the shoe on the other foot, but today, nobody outclasses the US Air Force tactically. And each US pilot probably has five times the cockpit time of his Russian counterpart.
I agree that the Russians make some amazing planes. Better than the F-22 IMO. I would suggest that we build SU-37s under license, with domestic avionics. But keep their short range missiles. If the Russians have one major advantage it isn't the quality of their fighters, it is the freakish performance of their dogfight missiles.
I don't get your point. I run this in production and average 25:1 compression across all data types. My cost comes in at about $.40 a gig. DD is a freakishly effective technology. If anything their marketing undersells it. Good luck finding a dissatisfied customer.
I use Stanza, which handles a variety of book formats including PDF. It has string search, bookmarks and automatically bookmarks chapters. It also automatically preserves your place. The OS X version has a sharing feature for transferring books to your iPhone/Touch over WiFi.
"The finest tank in the world" -Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist on the Soviet T-34 medium tank.
By mid-war the USSR produced as many T-34s in a month as Germany produced Tigers in the entire war. The IS-2 was a better tank overall than the Tiger. The German Panther was a better tank than any of the above, if you could keep it running. It was built as a response to the dominance of the T-34. And again they only built a few thousand of them.
He said Southerners, but he sounds like a Texan to me. There it might actually happen like that; they were the most "Yeah, State's Rights!" as opposed to "Yeah, State's Rights (because it lets us continue slavery)!" of the Confederates. And people of all races born there feel the same way. My only response to that then is: im in ur republic, yanking up your hideaway.
Umh, sure... Have you read the articles of secession? The Texas ordinance is entirely about slavery. It mentions slavery 21 times.
"She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?"
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell"
General Philip Henry Sheridan, Military Governor of Texas
liquidate |ËlikwÉ(TM)ËOEdÄt|
verb [ trans. ]
1 wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.
â [ intrans. ] (of a company) undergo such a process.
â convert (assets) into cash : a plan to liquidate $10,000,000 worth of property over seven years.
â pay off (a debt).
2 eliminate, typically by violent means; kill.
These people are being persecuted because of their beliefs and their willingness to stand up for their beliefs.
The Nazis did not persecute Jews for their beliefs. Just being ethnically Jewish was plenty of justification for killing you. They did persecute Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses and others for their beliefs. But with Jews it was all about race and ethnicity.
Do you know which Jews made it through the Holocaust unscathed? It was the ones that joined up with the Nazis as soldiers and police. Through their complicity, these Jews were responsible for the millions that were slaughtered in the camps.
Unscathed?. Serving in the Judenrat Police in the ghettoes meant you survived longer, but certainly not that you survived. In ghettos where the Judenrat cooperated with the Germans, many policemen survived the war, but were quickly executed when the ghettos were liberated. If a Ghetto was fully liquidated, its police went with it, albeit last. In ghettoes where the Judenrat resisted, the police were as vulnerable as anyone else to the whims of the occupiers. In the camps, the Nazis conscripted Sonderkommando, who mostly just buried the dead. Then they mudered them en mass at regular intervals. Service in the Sonderkommando bought you a few weeks of life and hurt nobody.
Statistically, your best bet for survival was running away and hiding. My great grandmother escaped from a concentration camp and hid with a Polish woman for the duration of the war. My dad's friend Nechama Tec hid with a Polish family in Lodz (or Warsaw, I forget). Her books on Jewish survival and resistance are very good.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure sending the email to the father is harassment. I think this may be a teen trend too. My niece's best friend died in a car crash last year and some sick girl left a message on his cell phone pretending to be her last month.
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The other big tactical innovation was the boom and zoom. Americans tried to only attack from above in a diving slash. Then they would continue straight on at high speed, disengaging. One of the few advantages the early war American fighters had over the Japanese Zeros and Oscars was speed and control in a dive. By making the fight vertical they forced it on their terms. They couldn't climb with the Japanese, so they typically just broke off after the first attack, regrouped and tried to regain that altitude (and therefore potential energy) advantage. Claire Chenault developed this tactic in China even before the US entered the war.
That certainly helps.
Stealth is a way overhyped technology. It can be marginally effective against microwave active systems, but does nothing against long wave active rigs. The cost of defeating stealth is a fraction of the cost of implementing it. There is really only one kind of stealth that is effective in the real world and that is not radiating and having good passive systems. The Russians excel at this. Their passive sensors are powerful and their passive missiles are the best in the world. Until recently NATO didn't even try to develop passive air to air missiles. The SU-27 has 90% of the F-22's flight capabilities at a fraction of the operating and capital cost. Three SU-27s, especially with American engines and avionics, would be several times more effective than a single F-22. The most important qualities in an air-superiority fighter have always been range, speed and weapons delivery. The SU-27 is faster than the F-22, has a greater combat radius and except for Beyond Visual Range, is a better weapons platform. BVR has only recently become at all useful in environments where we enjoy total air superiority and perfect information. In a full on war with a relatively numerous and organized enemy like Russia, it would revert back to a hypothetical combat mode. And once you are in visual range, those faster SUs can catch you and deploy those amazing dogfight missiles of theirs.
The exact same thing happens except in both directions. As the weave crosses, each pursued plane presses the attack on his partner's pursuer, forcing him to disengage pursuit. That is what made it so effective. It transforms a tactical disadvantage into an advantage. Basically in a two on two the defenders are setting a double pick. The Weave was about timing, not numbers.
That second quote referred to the Thach Weave, which BTW does not rely on superior numbers. It is a method for forcing double teams. Boom n' zoom refers to restricting your engagements to situations where you possess superior energy. Basically it means attacking in a dive and breaking off immediately, only re-engaging when you have regained your altitude advantage.
There were a lot of other factors too, such as the Japanese lack of usable radios.
He didn't ask who had fighters as good as the US. He asked who has an Air Force as good as the US. Like the Soviet VVS, The Russian VVS, has some great planes. And it is considerably more advanced in tactics and electronics. However, it has no money and consequently is terribly undertrained and has awful readiness. The best Sukhoi fighters in Russian service are indeed better than the F-15, but not enough. One of the great lessons of the early stages of the Pacific air war in WWII was that sound tactics are more important than technical superiority. The Japanese outclassed the US in both planes and individual pilot skills. Largely thanks to Jimmy Thatch, we overcame those advantages with better tactics and cooperation. We had to relearn that lesson in Vietnam, with the shoe on the other foot, but today, nobody outclasses the US Air Force tactically. And each US pilot probably has five times the cockpit time of his Russian counterpart.
I agree that the Russians make some amazing planes. Better than the F-22 IMO. I would suggest that we build SU-37s under license, with domestic avionics. But keep their short range missiles. If the Russians have one major advantage it isn't the quality of their fighters, it is the freakish performance of their dogfight missiles.
I don't get your point. I run this in production and average 25:1 compression across all data types. My cost comes in at about $.40 a gig. DD is a freakishly effective technology. If anything their marketing undersells it. Good luck finding a dissatisfied customer.
I can put over 28PB in one of my racks.
I use Stanza, which handles a variety of book formats including PDF. It has string search, bookmarks and automatically bookmarks chapters. It also automatically preserves your place. The OS X version has a sharing feature for transferring books to your iPhone/Touch over WiFi.
I just got one for free with the annual Apple edu rebate. I run Stanza on it and think it is an excellent book reader.
"The finest tank in the world" -Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist on the Soviet T-34 medium tank.
By mid-war the USSR produced as many T-34s in a month as Germany produced Tigers in the entire war. The IS-2 was a better tank overall than the Tiger. The German Panther was a better tank than any of the above, if you could keep it running. It was built as a response to the dominance of the T-34. And again they only built a few thousand of them.
You just discovered what Soviet tank designers figured out in the 30's
Or at least it has the potential to, if they make a rural RF sharing option available.
So is the NFL
He said Southerners, but he sounds like a Texan to me. There it might actually happen like that; they were the most "Yeah, State's Rights!" as opposed to "Yeah, State's Rights (because it lets us continue slavery)!" of the Confederates. And people of all races born there feel the same way. My only response to that then is: im in ur republic, yanking up your hideaway.
Umh, sure... Have you read the articles of secession? The Texas ordinance is entirely about slavery. It mentions slavery 21 times.
"She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?"
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell"
General Philip Henry Sheridan, Military Governor of Texas
Maybe it is just among Jews or historians, but I think of that usage as common. Especially in reference to the ghettos.
Interesting. From the OS X built in dictionary,
liquidate |ËlikwÉ(TM)ËOEdÄt| verb [ trans. ] 1 wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets. â [ intrans. ] (of a company) undergo such a process. â convert (assets) into cash : a plan to liquidate $10,000,000 worth of property over seven years. â pay off (a debt). 2 eliminate, typically by violent means; kill.
The Nazis did not persecute Jews for their beliefs. Just being ethnically Jewish was plenty of justification for killing you. They did persecute Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses and others for their beliefs. But with Jews it was all about race and ethnicity.
Unscathed?. Serving in the Judenrat Police in the ghettoes meant you survived longer, but certainly not that you survived. In ghettos where the Judenrat cooperated with the Germans, many policemen survived the war, but were quickly executed when the ghettos were liberated. If a Ghetto was fully liquidated, its police went with it, albeit last. In ghettoes where the Judenrat resisted, the police were as vulnerable as anyone else to the whims of the occupiers. In the camps, the Nazis conscripted Sonderkommando, who mostly just buried the dead. Then they mudered them en mass at regular intervals. Service in the Sonderkommando bought you a few weeks of life and hurt nobody.
Statistically, your best bet for survival was running away and hiding. My great grandmother escaped from a concentration camp and hid with a Polish woman for the duration of the war. My dad's friend Nechama Tec hid with a Polish family in Lodz (or Warsaw, I forget). Her books on Jewish survival and resistance are very good.
Best nickname ever: John "Hot Plate" Williams.
The Air Force is in charge of the nukes However, your point is still valid
The Army has plenty of Nukes. And don't forget the Navy. They put nukes on everything.
I guess you don't live in Brooklyn
I think our relationship is more like two US states than say US and Mexico/Canada.
Which two US states? We had a nasty civil war with lingering effects, even 144 years later.
I think this may be a teen trend. It happened to someone I know, albeit over the telephone (fake message from his recently deceased daughter).
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure sending the email to the father is harassment. I think this may be a teen trend too. My niece's best friend died in a car crash last year and some sick girl left a message on his cell phone pretending to be her last month.