Re: Re: US jet crashes in Libya due to apparent equipment ...

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The US also puts a lot more wear on its aircraft than other nations. Many other nations have planes but most stay on the ground a lot, save for aerobatic units. However, it takes air time to build and maintain skills. This is what US pilots do. So, its not so much that our planes are badly built, just heavily used. For that matter some of the fighter planes are older than the pilots flying them, kind of like how the B-52's have seen several generations of pilots at the controls.

This plane doesn't seem to have been bombed after it crashed. It still looks very much intact. The more modern tactic of these planes is to fly above 10,000 feet and drop smart bombs. That would put them out of range of most AAA. A missile maybe though it would have to be a vehicle launched one.

Well, to some extent, the US outclasses by a wide margin most other countries in terms of aircraft and training. The wreckage may be too destroyed to ever know if AAA fire played a role, and the two black boxes are likely destroyed or will soon be destroyed. The US often bombs aircraft that have gone down in hostile territory. Also, the US often mandates that exported aircraft be somewhat crippled compared to their American cousins. A slight counterpoint is that an Israeli F-15 on a training exercise sliced through an A-4, losing almost all of the right wing, and landed at double the usual landing speed. The landing sheared off the tailhook, and stopped just short of the net at the end of the runway. The manufacturer was asked about that scenario previously, and had replied it was impossible.