Famous Pierre
"Aall the right efforts were made to educate the US pilots on vehicle recognition by sending our wagons down to the A-10 base so they could see them before the war."
Yes, but did they drive them out into the desert to have the A-10 pilots spot them from above? I'm told they just sat on the pan.
The A-10 training base at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz, where all the US-based ANG A-10 units did their work-ups before deploying, did not have ANY British ground combat equipment to train with out at the Barry Goldwater range.
The first time the Davis-Monthan trainers had cockpit views of Scimitars, according to a US trainer I spoke to three years ago (Scimitars apparently look a bit like BMP2s from a distance and from above (though the two Popovs seemed to think they were Zils or flatbed trucks)) - was when a Tornado GR4 semi-squadron came in for CAS training in January 03. By which time the 190th (the Popovs) had already left for Kuwait.
And anyway, weren't they trained to recognise orange ID panels? Anyone ever heard of orange rockets?