re: #54 venezuela lover

Alouette is more right than he knows.

A high percentage of their pilots are members of the Saudi Royal Family. Family ties and nepotism are no way to select the best fighter pilots. Moreover, none of them will take any risks other than to fire missiles from 50 miles away and then race off in the other direction with soiled underwear.

It is not unusual for heirs to the royal families in the Middle East’s monarchies to serve in the air forces. It is safter than (a) subjecting them to the higher possibility of training accidents and/or combat fatalities among ground forces; and (b) allowing potential adversaries for power to be in the ground forces, with access to armored equipment and other weaponry suitable for staging coups.