| Post; F-104 - Retards/corruption in the German military leadership? The F-104 Starfighter was conceived as a high-altitude interceptor and was not used for very long by the US military. It was sold to Germany as a low-altitude ground-attack aircraft. Also, it was heavily modified to include the ability to drop nuclear bombs (which would have been handed over to the Luftwaffe by the Americans in the event of a nuclear war with the Warsaw Pact).
As a result of its heavy modifications and misuse, 292 aircraft were destroyed and 116 pilots lost their lives between 1961 and 1986.
This leads me to believe that those who were in charge of determining which weapons should be aquired and which should be decomissioned were either suffering from mental retardation, or have been corrupted by the sinister agents of the Evil Empire Lockheed. |