I would rather see a writer take a bold position, and defend it
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Because:
A. He has no practical or firsthand knowledge, so he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about (but that’s never stopped him before).
B. That wouldn’t support his narrative of “AIR FORCE, BAD! TYLER, GOOOOOD”
“Adding CFTs would add endurance and free more weapons stations from US F-16s.”
I wish I could like that comment more than once.
Although this whole operation is impressive, what could drastically improve is the Pentagon’s ability to strike any target in a much tighter time-span than 24 hours.
You also have X number of targets to hit and so many planes available on the boat to hit them with. Targets were on opposite coasts of the Gulf of Sidra. There were 27 F-111Fs and 15 A-6Es in the air that night over Libya. The Navy is but a fraction of the total amount of US air power and operations such as these are…
F/A-18s didn’t have night attack capabilities in 1986. At the time, they could use HARM, but that was the only weapon they could use at night against ground targets. A-7Es also performed SEAD.
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Now I know you don’t know what you’re talking about because not even A-10s go that low because you can’t point the nose down, get rounds off and recover. 100 feet or lower is helicopter territory.
A-10 guys like to go low for two reasons. Back in the 70s/80s, that was fine as it was under the radar coverage of most SAM sites and in places like Europe, you can use terrain masking to avoid any known emplacements. Your biggest risks came from that surprise mobile launcher/AAA/MANPAD in your route that you weren’t…
put a viper in that same situation (which is more effective for the troops on the ground) and you are going to loose even more of them more quickly. sure, it can stay high and fast.... where CAS looses much of its accuracy.
This site? A site that is - by the admission of the blogger - his own opinions? A site where he doesn’t actually do any journalism himself; instead finding articles that support his confirmation bias and opines about them here? A site where, whenever someone challenges him, instead of backing up his claims with…
If you’re getting shot up that much, you’re doing it wrong.
*SIGH*
OK, you’ve got 22 A-10s in your squadron and you have to meet an 48-sortie-per-day requirement.
Your mighty Hogs go out go low and slow, some get shot to shit and come home missing engines, half a tail, etc. You don’t have as many Hogs to send out, so the ones you do have, have to fly more sorties to keep up with…
I couldn’t find a specific reason for that, but my guess is budget and logistic constrains. No one needs dedicated planes when they can have something similar in a multirole fighter. Also, having the help of the US on their land, reduced the need even more.
I read that article. He’s wrong. About a lot of things, but in keeping with the points you brought up, A-10s DON’T do SEAD. It’s not at all equipped to counter aint-aircraft weaponry. It has ZERO SEAD/DEAD capability. It’s dependent on killing pop-up defenses before they can kill the A-10. And since the best tool the…
Please read me writeup linked in this piece above that shreds your statements to pieces