Under standard circumstances you are correct, but during wartime things can surpass bureocracy. Remember that they integrate storm Shadow, jdam & harm very quickly on soviet airplanes (ok, with various limitations, but you do not have to re-program storm Shadows like you did with jdams for air support). In a Nato jet, with your engineers…
Under standard circumstances you are correct, but during wartime things can surpass bureocracy. Remember that they integrate storm Shadow, jdam & harm very quickly on soviet airplanes (ok, with various limitations, but you do not have to re-program storm Shadows like you did with jdams for air support). In a Nato jet, with your engineers you can integrate quickly your storm Shadows of you want.
I think simply they do not need to do it. Storm Shadows are simply limited in stocks - f16s could do many other tasks like delivering jdams, defending against Cruise missiles, A2A combat, ecc...
Under standard circumstances you are correct, but during wartime things can surpass bureocracy. Remember that they integrate storm Shadow, jdam & harm very quickly on soviet airplanes (ok, with various limitations, but you do not have to re-program storm Shadows like you did with jdams for air support). In a Nato jet, with your engineers you can integrate quickly your storm Shadows of you want.
I think simply they do not need to do it. Storm Shadows are simply limited in stocks - f16s could do many other tasks like delivering jdams, defending against Cruise missiles, A2A combat, ecc...
The trickiest one is the HARM - need to get a radar signature , but it might also work as fly there and launch toward an area where a SAM is.
Storm Shadow and JDAM are programmed on the ground and you just launch in the general prepared launch area.