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  1. Tank You
    vick7 reacted to Tied in Bash the F-35 thred.   
    Thats still fucking Stupid
     
    You see this is where my hate relation with the F-35 comes into play
     
    Everyone here know's my small slavic brain is more asccustomed to writing/reading on the ground aspects of Airail warfare (attack aircraft and Anti-air systems)
     
    But even i know that shoving too many roles into a Fighter is just fucking stupid
     
    dont get me wrong
     
    I dont hate the F-35, i think its the same as the Bradley, gimped a bit from having too many roles but still will have a great service record for the amount of tech the Americans can put into anything and them not picking fights with 1st world armys, so far
     
    But you will always, ALWAYs, need dedicated CAS aircraft
     
    and i would take it a step further, you will always need a few wings or so of complete throwaway aircraft
     
    Something like Mig-21s or Su-22s 

    Aircraft you can slap some rocket pods/bombs/AT missiles to, that are modern enough to get to the objective, but are completely disposable 
     
    Because some times its better to lose 10 mig-21s bombing a front line into suppression, than to lose 40 T-72s because the defenders were very much still alive, calm, and wearing unsoiled trousers
     
    Warfare will always require that sacrificial lamb of a aircraft
     
    Just like modern warfare will always require that sacrificial lamb of a tank, APC, infantrymen, AA system or anything else in your arsenal
     
     
    Not everything in your armada needs to be of that quality, but sometimes wars are won by dropping just enough ordance on a target/series of targets or throwing just enough tanks at a line at once, that you can not only break every poor sole in the defense but also reap your efforts tenfold when there are 200 t-72s, 400 T-55s, and a assload of BMPs running amock in your enemies front line
     
    Because to a rifleman in a reserve unit, a T-26 might aswell be a T-90 if he dosent have the ablity to deal with it and the ablity for his own unit to deal with the 20 behind it
     
     
    same goes for CAS aircraft in general, sometimes you just need a tough aircraft, that was desinged to do nothing but bust tanks and anything softer, to roam the battlefield
     
    You might lose 1, 2, or even 10 But it dosent matter, since you didn't gimp the airframe around it being hard to detect, it had more than enough ordance to give you a healthy return in terms of scores of burning APCs, Tanks of skeletons in your wake 
     
    There will always be a place for some high tech aircraft to shove LGBs into every concrete bunker on your Enemy's frontier and evac before they even relise whats left of their radar array is blind to the threat
     
    But there will also always be a place for Su-22s to hurl as many 1,000 kg bombs at a series of troop gatherings stealth be damned 
  2. Tank You
    vick7 reacted to Tied in Bash the F-35 thred.   
    Pretty much every stragtic or even tactical plan to use of air power against the Soviet Union and her Allies relied much more on Assumption than fact
     
     
    i really cant stress enough how good Soviet air defense was, especially for its 'domestic' air defense
     
    Dont get me wrong, i cant think of a single nation better to take it on than the US, and the stuff Iraq had wasn't the worst in the world in 91, but they played into the American's hands like fish
  3. Tank You
    vick7 got a reaction from Tied in Models and pictures of Soviet MBT designs from 80s. Object 477A, Object 490 Buntar and Object 299.   
    Wasn't the Object 292 equipped with a modified 152 mm howitzer 2A65?,  There is a old post on Armoured Warfare that the main purpose for Russian 152mm gun tanks was to use Nuclear shells in Tank vs Tank shootouts and not APFSDS.
     
    But enough of that,  I love your work ( Putin's Alt Account ) and hope that all of these Russian Objects and more find there way in to Armoured Warfare.
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