Re: The proposed aircraft for the Royal Navy's two new carriers part 2


"Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Fred J. McCall wrote:
"Kevin Brooks" <brooksvmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:"Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:>I still think a carrier-ized version of the A-10 or similar would be
:>more useful in the imagined litteral scenario. Fighters tend to want to
:>go fast, shoot on the run and miss the target.
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:Never heard of precision guided munitions or what they have done to the
:world of CAS and BAI, huh Jack?

Even without such weapons (and they're mostly what gets dropped these
days), Navy 'fast movers' are 7 mil accuracy platforms. I doubt the
A-10 does any better with unguided ordnance.

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"Death is my gift." -- Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

Like that centerlined 30mm cannon?

That wonderful cannon you keep yacking about has been guilty of being used
in the very kind of fratricide cases you claim the fast movers cause.

"In the first incident an Air Force A-10 opened fire on a building only a
couple of hundred meters away from a unit accepting the surrender of an
enemy soldier. The pilot was apparently unaware that the building was in
friendly territory and a no-fire zone. (6:63). Fortunately there were no
casualties. The second incident also involved two A-10's who strafed his
convoy, wounding a corporal and a corpsman. The convoy was on the friendly
side of the sand berm delineating the fire support coordination line and the
lead vehicle had been identified with a VS-I 7 panel. In both cases there
was no visibility problems, no darkness, no ground combat and no surface to
air combat."

www.globalsecurity.org/ military/library/report/1993/AWH.htm

"A preliminary analysis showed that fratricide of all types accounted for
about 11 percent of 115 US battle deaths. Those figures suggest notable
progress in recent years. In Desert Storm in 1991, fratricide was blamed for
35 of 148 US battle deaths-or about 24 percent."

www.afa.org/magazine/June2004/0604blue.asp

Let's see, we saw PGM use dramatically *increase* between ODS and OIF, and
the fratricide rate was cut by more than half...what does that say about
your clunky claims?

Brooks




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