Saturday, December 06, 2014

Epiphany! Marine Air is actually trying to do the Viggen thing!



Remember Sweetman's article that I linked to earlier this week?  I was high and to the right believing that the Marine Corps was looking at future Camp Leatherneck attacks in this plan...and if they were successful in thwarting them then we'd see an infantry battalion delegated to guarding aircraft.

Bill said that the plan was reminiscent to the way that the Brits deployed Harriers during the cold war.  I disagree.  If anything its more like the Viggen thing!

I wonder but no one is asking.  How will the asphalt deal with the heat produced by these engines?  You're going to have to move them around because after two launches your street is trashed!