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06.11.2014 17:35:43
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WWII; ВВС;
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А-10 - самолет-шакал
>>С позиций послезнания - после войны все перешли на ИБ для такиx целей, и это продолжалось долго (до появления А-10 и Су-25 бронированыx штурмовиков - ни у кого не было: авианосные А-4 и А-6 это же машины совершенно другого класса -"ударные самолеты" ).
>С позиций послезнания если бронирование посчитали эффективным в 70-е тем более оно должно было быть эффективным ранее.
С позиций послезнания А-10 оказался самолет-шакал против папуасов, негодный в сирьезной войне против сирьезного противника (с).
http://mackenzieproductions.com/Gen._Horner.html
>A: It shows that the gun has a lot of utility, which we always knew, but it isn't the principal tank-killer on the A-IO. The [Imaging Infrared] Maverick is the big hero there. That was used by the A-10s and the F-16s very, very effectively in places like Khafji.
>The other problem is that the A-10 is vulnerable to hits because its speed is limited. It's a function of thrust, it's not a function of anything else. We had a lot of A-10s take a lot of ground fire hits. Quite frankly, we pulled the A-10s back from going up around the Republican Guard and kept them on Iraq's [less formidable] front-line units. That's line if you have a force that allows you to do that. In this case, we had F-16s to go after the Republican Guard.
>Q: At what point did you do that?
>A: I think I had fourteen airplanes sitting on the ramp having battle damage repaired, and I lost two A- 10s in one day [February 15], and I said, "I've had enough of this." It was when we really started to go after the Republican Guard.