A Swallow
Norm Smith Medallist
Mate. Stop Googling your responses: https://sofrep.com/fightersweep/length-average-fighter-mission/
The more you do that, the harder it is for me to defend you FFS.
Lol. I checked out that article, the author isn’t talking about airborne time. He’s talking about all the planning, briefing, through to execution/debrief time of a normal mission. That’s fairly accurate for normal training/exercise operations back home.
I was referring to 8-10 hours airborne over there (so 15+ with briefing etc. either side). It was 2 hours from the UAE just to get up the gulf and up to Central/Northern Iraq. So 4 hours just of transit time each mission, bracketing the on station time.
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