From what I it, fighters are just overpriced missile trucks that fire off their missiles far enough from the frontline not to be taken down by anit-air shit.Why don't Russia and Ukraine strap on some fancy radar and add points onto old airliners and have them fly out to the edge of safe air space and shoot off their missile?The only advantage of a proper fighter jet is it can fly lower and go faster. But even the Russians are not flying low, and Ukraine doesn't have the skilled pilots to fly low.Airliners have cheap and good parts availability. I wouldn't be surprised in 6 months this is a thing.
Everything you’re suggesting adds a shit ton of weight which will make something that’s already a fat slow target even worse. The missile flinging and diving low only works because it increases your missile range and helps keep you hidden from theirs.
>>62527632alright Ukraine has been waiting for f-16 for how long. So place a few hard points on an old airliner and have it lanch missiles over the horizon from 30,000 feet. Is the f-16 going to do something different?
>>62527684>Is the f-16 going to do something different?yes: survive
>>62527708Can the f-16 outmaneuver missile?
>>62527763Yes. Russia is using old long range missiles which are designed to pick off slow unmaneuverable bombers. Fighters can generally evade them so long as the pilot realizes they are under attack in time. A fuck off huge airliner will not be able to do jack shit and will just explode.This doesn't even just apply to shitty Russian missiles. See that audio clip of the Russian aircraft barely surviving a Patriot missile attack by going evasive. A large part of why fighters are still maneuverable in the age of missile trucks is because good maneuverability can save you against a missile that is at the edge of its range, because missiles don't have large wings and thus can't chase a hard turning aircraft without bleeding a huge amount of energy which they might not have to spare.
>>62527320I found this image on my pc and it seems relevant
>>62527320do you think airliners are cheap? a new airliner costs hundreds of millions of dollars. they're huge
russian SAMs are only really effective on passenger aircraft so this is a terrible plan
>>62527890Use old ones
>>62527874What munition is that? Looks modern but photo looks old.
>>62528120I have no idea but it looks like the AGM-86
>>62527320airliners are expensive to operate and far more expensive to operate as military aircraft than airliner
>>62528001It’s not cheap to retrofit old planes and add more life to the airframe
