Originally Posted by
SnowFella
Think most current usage has been the HEI ammo, API isn't really that well suited against unarmored targets...and not many targets while running air to ground in Afghanistan is armored.
And yet one of the most scary / educating / informative experiences of my life was as a 16 yr old [err yes, MANY years ago] crossing a 1km wide plain, along with the other 150 lads on that ex .... when 3 x A-10s turned up.
Whichever way we looked or faced there was always one threatening us, and another turning hard to engage. Our 7.62 rounds would probably just have bounced off anyway, had we even managed to hit it (because you were almost too busy looking for No.3 who was [panto time: Behind You!!)
Hmm, that told me a lot about numbers of a/c and how troops on the ground can or do react to one a/c or more than one a/c. And how many directions a person can look in at any one time..
CS