Page "hobbies" Paragraph 88

However, the aircraft which we have today are tied to large, `` soft '' airfields.

Nuclear rockets can destroy airfields with ease.

Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;

but the airfield, on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile.

This makes today's aircraft a one-shot, or one mission, weapon.

Aircraft are mighty expensive if you can use them only once.