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RE: Close Air Support - 2/15/2008 9:07:54 PM

anarchyintheuk

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ORIGINAL: pbear

CAS is very important to the Army but they have to call the Air Force to get it done.

First they call they call their own choppers, then they call the Marines, then the call the Navy, then they call the Air Force (cept for the A-10 guys).

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RE: Close Air Support - 2/15/2008 9:19:10 PM

Charbroiled

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ORIGINAL: pbear

Instructions for an A-10 pilot: Go down the the first stop sign turn right, go to the second intercetion turn left destroy the line of enemy tanks and while at it take out the gas station on the corner and pick up a quart of milk while you're at it.

LOL....You caused a coffee eruption, but that's OK, my monitor needed cleaning anyway.

< Message edited by Charbroiled -- 2/15/2008 9:20:25 PM >

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RE: Close Air Support - 2/16/2008 5:25:47 AM

Cutman

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I am a Marine and not AF. I agree that the Stragetic Bombing worked much less effective than sold. I also know that the had huge problem with over selling most of there BDAs and underpalnning during WWII. I study CAS a lot for my work side, so I look at historical cases. That is why I am posting on this one so much.

I thought I remember that the RAF and AF doing better at CAS during the last 2 months of the anzio landing time period. Cabranz I think is what the AF called it? I know they screwed up pretty badly down here for the initial years.. I just remember that I had read somewhere that the AF/RAF had eventually learned the hard way in the Italy.

cutman

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RE: Close Air Support - 2/16/2008 6:31:16 AM

AcePylut

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Here's what cracks me up about the A-10...

So the engineers designed this wonderfully effective aircraft, built it, were getting ready to test it... and then a pilot looked at the prototype and said "where's the engines"... and the engineers went, "um, uh, er, ah lemme get back to you in a couple months", and then the engineers went back the drawing board and slapped a couple of engines on the fuselage of the aircraft and said, "whadda ya mean, where are the engines, they're right there, see!"

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RE: Close Air Support - 2/16/2008 7:38:27 PM

histgamer

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Barb: Your not talking about CAS. CAS is not indirdicting communications or anything not directly in contact with the front. Hitting units while moving and communications and roads is Interdiction. Hitting enamy troops while they are engaged with friendlys is CAS.

As for the F-16 its possibly more glamerous but the F-16 is a very good multi role aircraft and in todays day in age F-16 pilots are trained equally almost in A-A as they are in A-G manevers. The F-16 is a very good A-G platform.

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