Sadly the Jaffa won't get to notice so much that many roads have become runways because of the Rock, Scissors, Paper nature of the Death Gliders vs fighter jet battle. The helicopters and ground attacked fixed wing aircraft have been distributed and several highways have been staged with supplies, but the sad fact is once a group of Fighter jet runs dry of missiles it's little more than a paper target for the Death gliders.
ROCk
High speed guided missiles are not going to be something that the Jaffa pilots have encounter before and their numbers and attacks are going to be very much blunted by flying into waves of missiles fired well out of range their plasma cannon.
SCISSOR
The Death Glider's relatively unlimited ammunition and endurance coupled with it being at least 4 times tougher than a fighter jet means the fighter jet's missile advantage is going to only blunt and relatively slowly whittle at the Swarm of Death Gliders and not stop it dead. (I estimate that each Death Glider kill is going to require a minimum of four side winder sized missiles.)
PAPER
Modern fighter jets are little more than flying fuel tanks or paper airplanes firing 20 mm spitwads once they have expended all the missiles they carry and if any Death Gliders survive to plasma cannon range your going to lose every jet fighter. To make it worse the jet fighters can't really out run the Death gliders leaving little chance for them to survive to be reloaded.
In this case the Jaffa won't notice the secondary use of high ways and mostly are going after airports only because they can see various aircraft on the ground and after the death toll they have been taking from aircraft firing missiles don't want any more of the aircraft to get in the air.
The Jaffa's entire set of orders from their so called god consisted of "Burn the city below." and "Go punish the rest of the slaves on this continent." and almost all their training and experience is in attack of near stone age civilization. The only reason the Jaffa Death Gliders did as well as they did is the large number of Death Gliders and the technological advantage the Death Glider has over a fighter jet forced to rely on large amounts of liquid fuel store nearly everywhere within the fighter.
hmelton
ROCk
High speed guided missiles are not going to be something that the Jaffa pilots have encounter before and their numbers and attacks are going to be very much blunted by flying into waves of missiles fired well out of range their plasma cannon.
SCISSOR
The Death Glider's relatively unlimited ammunition and endurance coupled with it being at least 4 times tougher than a fighter jet means the fighter jet's missile advantage is going to only blunt and relatively slowly whittle at the Swarm of Death Gliders and not stop it dead. (I estimate that each Death Glider kill is going to require a minimum of four side winder sized missiles.)
PAPER
Modern fighter jets are little more than flying fuel tanks or paper airplanes firing 20 mm spitwads once they have expended all the missiles they carry and if any Death Gliders survive to plasma cannon range your going to lose every jet fighter. To make it worse the jet fighters can't really out run the Death gliders leaving little chance for them to survive to be reloaded.
In this case the Jaffa won't notice the secondary use of high ways and mostly are going after airports only because they can see various aircraft on the ground and after the death toll they have been taking from aircraft firing missiles don't want any more of the aircraft to get in the air.
The Jaffa's entire set of orders from their so called god consisted of "Burn the city below." and "Go punish the rest of the slaves on this continent." and almost all their training and experience is in attack of near stone age civilization. The only reason the Jaffa Death Gliders did as well as they did is the large number of Death Gliders and the technological advantage the Death Glider has over a fighter jet forced to rely on large amounts of liquid fuel store nearly everywhere within the fighter.
hmelton