They are accustomed to rare injections of higher-precision data from the occasional Nasa or German jet mission, he says.
But the desperation of the Jets' mission and mood was obvious after this debacle.
On Main Street on Sunday morning, Coach Rex Ryan said at a rally attended by about 1,000 fans that the Jets' mission this season was to reach the Super Bowl.
And a recent move banning clubs from buying Turkish players, in the wake of Turkey's downing of a Russian jet flying missions in Syria, suggests that the Kremlin is happy to preside over its domestic game with a heavy hand.
Using Omni-Directional Manoeuvre Gear (think Spider-Man's web-swinging, but with waist-mounted metal coils), players jet around mission areas slicing enemies down with dazzling aerial hit-and-runs.
So with Nato jets flying missions in support, the rebels expect shortly to fight what may well be the last big battle of this war and of their revolution, he adds.
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From the time we hung up, two hijacked jets on suicide missions had plowed into the towers of the World Trade Center.
The third are the major military powers who will need the advanced jets for simpler missions in low-risk environments.
And with many countries being "unwilling to move away from American products" for political reasons, he fears some pilots will be flying the wrong jets for their missions.
