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Originally Posted by Mirificus
They were ineffective no matter what you call them. An air force that can't provide air superiority, strikes, reconnaissance, better air-ground cooperation or air lift is hardly an air force. If Nanoha and the aerial mages are exemplary of the rest of the TSAB AF then it may as well be merged into the GF.
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Yeah I’ve always felt that a well built tech based air force would CHRUSH the TSAB “Air Force” utterly. Speed if nothing else would pwn them, at best we see mages maybe being slightly faster then helicopters, Mach 2+ Jet fighters would rape them to hell and back. Mages could probably replace attack helicopters pretty well, but not much else. This gets back to the TSAB’s retarded aversion to any kind of no magic solution though.
What they really need is to get into a war with another power that actually uses tech AND magic together, if they survive a few crushing defeats they might finally be knocked out of their stupor and adapt as well as perhaps purge the morons that set them up for said defeats from the ranks. I'm acutally in the beginning stages of writing a fan fic something to that effect where in they come into conflict with a smaller, but more tactically and technically competent power and get a serious bloody nose and some lessons learned from it though still win more by sheer mass then any skill or tactics.
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
Well, we do need a reason for why she might want to go on an exchange program to "some Earth army". Besides, "recent combat experience" would probably just mean US or Britain (even in ~2015). Sure, armies are probably fighting in Africa too but they won't be your choice.
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Yup you've really gotta go with the US though after all by this time the US army has
slapped down Russian,
Liberated Cuba,
Re-fought the Korean War, and
saved the president while preventing a coup leader in Mexico from nuking the US.
