Paphitis wrote:Get Real! wrote:bilako22 wrote:Nikitas wrote:This is not just per the question at hand but about pilots and air forces in general. These guys are trained to Bachelor of Engineering standards and then use their knowledge to drop horrific weapons on people from 5000 feet up. The people who receive these weapons fry. Then on pilot who has been doing the frying drops to the ground and the victims fry him, and that is treated as the major crime, not the original frying which was on a hugely larger scale.
Are you guys nuts or what! Naturally people who have been bombed are going to vent their rage on the fucking pilot! It would be unnatural if they did not. Ask the journalists who were bombed because they were mistaken for Serbs in Kossovo how they felt about it. Everyone of them said they wanted to get hold of the pilot and get friendly with him.
The idiots who murdered the pilot were too stupid to realise that they would pay heavily for this atrocity.
That spineless peasant was VERY lucky that I wasn't the one who found him dangling off a tree...
Probably a very natural reaction because if anyone dropped any napalm in my general direction, I would be one very angry Paphiti. I would also want to get up close and personal with that pilot.
GR, please also acknowledge that trained military pilots are soldiers just like you are with the CNG. There is absolutely no differance. They are also highly trained individuals that quite often do not see who is on the receiving end of their wrath. These pilots are also family men and women and they do not take enjoyment in bombing anyone.
Thankfully, airpower today is very different to what it was in the past. Ordnance is delivered with great accuracy (within 10m) to the target which limits significantly any civilian loss of life. As you know very well, air ordnance is guided either via GPS, Radiation signatures (HARM missiles), laser and inertial guidance. Many are fire and forget and can be fired from over 100km away. Today Single Shot Kill Probability is almost guaranteed as against the older method of carpet bombing so as to guarantee to hit the target and also causing huge civilian loss of life. I would also like to reiterate that pilots are not spineless individuals.
A “spineless pilot” is a hotshot who spreads death and destruction on a mass scale from the skies against a people who cannot properly defend themselves.
Now that the RoC has acquired and is installing French Mistral S2A computerized automated systems acclaimed to have a 96% accuracy, I’d like to see these Turkish hotshot pilots attack again…
Or perhaps they might want to have an attempt at a ground assault against the National Guard’s hundreds of Milan mobile guided missile launchers and our ever-growing numbers of Russian Hind MIL-MI 35P choppers…