re: #207 Varek Raith
WTF.
The F-22 is being upgraded to drop jdams?
It’s a freaking air superiority fighter, not an attack plane.
WTF is with the Pentagon in making jack-of-all-trades planes?
It doesn’t work.
One of the Allies’ lucky breaks in WWII was the Nazi high command’s insistence that the Me-262 be able to act as a light bomber. The subsequent delays enabled Allied forces to knobble the 262 by taking out fuel and parts suppliers. Despite its late introduction and small numbers, German pilots claimed to have downed 542 Allied aircraft with it.