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bigyabai 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: DARPA’s new X-76

4th generation jets are not designed to survive denied airspace. They're still useful; both sides in Ukraine are using 4th gen jets for air patrol, SEAD, escorts, intercepts and standoff munition launches.

slaw 4 months ago [–]

Nothing that makes them jet fighters is used. Propeller planes with launchers could do the same.

bigyabai 4 months ago | [–]

Putting flares, chaff and ECM onto a propeller plane doesn't leave much takeoff weight for AASMs and KEPD munitions.

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