It doesn't work well .... not well at all .... unless the Lawn Dart Driver is a complete retard.Forgive me for being an ignorant wanna-be, but how does a 1v1 with a Prowler an a F-16 work.
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Stupid questions about Naval Aviation (Pt 2)
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Hope springs eternal.
Forgive me for being an ignorant wanna-be, but how does a 1v1 with a Prowler an a F-16 work.
Jeff
Basic Fighter Maneuver Counters (BFMC), ie: ACM for Prowlers, is not about winning the fight, it is about getting out of it alive. You learn the basics of what a fighter might try and do to shoot you down, and you try out ways to avoid getting shot. And yes, sometimes a Prowler walks away with its ass intact........
Basic Fighter Maneuver Counters (BFMC), ie: ACM for Prowlers, is not about winning the fight, it is about getting out of it alive. You learn the basics of what a fighter might try and do to shoot you down, and you try out ways to avoid getting shot. And yes, sometimes a Prowler walks away with its ass intact........
It's not so distant cousin, the EF-111, was engaged in early hours of Desert Storm by a Iraqi Mirage F1 and the crew awarded the DFC after they successfully evaded its missile attack and the Mirage crashed in the attempt due to defensive actions by the Raven.
I cannot help but laugh when I read this and then reconsider the original question re: "what happens" when a Prowler meets an F-16 1V1?
Answer: they do lunch. And the Prowler is it.
Like we said ... unless the fighter guy is a retard ...
That DFC winning "killer" EF-111? Thank God for American pilots. Never say die. :icon_zbee
Well, invite politely to check out this thread or take a cross-country to Fallon. Maybe she missed the F-16N that was especially built for the Navy and was operated by TOPGUN, VF-126, VF-45 and VF-43 in late eighties until mid nineties, but retired prematurely over issues of airframe stress. Or maybe she missed the return of the F-16 in Navy markings when the current F-16A/Bs arrived.
Show her this one....Prowler returning after 1 v 1 against NAVY Viper..in fact, that just might be a Prowler ECMO in back of Viper. Better yet, tell her to contact Brett. He and I were talking prior to this event. He could clue her in ECMO to ECMO.
HJ Photo
HJ is well informed. That is an ECMO in back of the Viper and I'm in the Prowler. Great way to end the det!
Brett
Forgive me for being an ignorant wanna-be, but how does a 1v1 with a Prowler an a F-16 work.
Jeff
In daylight the Prowler is a grape, but you'd be very surprised at what you can pull off at night with a few of the right pods with no AWACS or E-2 cueing them and us willing to turn the lights off.
The Tomcat is the only radar that stood a chance, saddled in numerous times behind Hornets, Eagles and Lawn Darts rolling in after the merge as they went by heads down in the scope trying to work through our jamming and give them a trons-trons-trons call
Fighting fair? Never! and that's the point.
Damn Pugs, you stole my thunder.....I remember getting two FOX TWO's off on some airwing Hornets..."Two hornets shot by a Prowler, how'd that happen?"
They had all kinds of excuses....Lead nose, Heads down....more like heads in their rears.....
It was at night and we didn;t have NVD's.....and our strobes were blasting away.
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Whats the difference between flight planning and brief?
I thought it was Bottle to Throttle... Glad, I get the FAA (8 hour) limits..
I thought it was Bottle to Throttle... Glad, I get the FAA (8 hour) limits..
That's from your first drink, right?
That's from your first drink, right?[/quote]
As long as your first is your last. :icon_tong
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