' Wrote:Some fighters can fly up to space even nowadays.

' Wrote:The designs of most space craft in Freelancer would not be able to function at high speed in an atmosphere. They would get torn apart or send into uncontrollable dives. Atmosphere has gravity, friction, turbulence, etc.

Vehicles built to be used inside an atmosphere would still be necessary, and would most likely be used against space craft or transports entering the atmosphere. While a space ship can work well against ground-based vehicles, by virtue of having a shield, aircraft could move far faster within the atmosphere than a spaceship would be able to.

So airplanes would still be necessary and still exist.

But the Air Force would still not exist, these vehicles would be under the command of the Army, as they are used for planet-based combat, which is what the Army would control.

' Wrote:During WW2, the American planes serving on carriers in the Pacific War were all under the command of the American Navy, if we're going with RL examples.

EDIT: What you're looking for is the LSF /Liberty security force/, which's -primary goal- is to -secure the economy of Liberty-, not hunt down Nomads.