Cost of British Air Strikes in Iraq
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Cheaper Option?
How about a few barrel bombs lobbed out the back of a CH-47? Seemed to work well when the baddies used it in the region. Oh, I forgot, there're on our side now aren't they?
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It amazes me how the USA thinks, they appear to procure aircraft that they never really deploy to war zones.
Then at the first chance, attempt to withdraw the backbone of their ground attack fleet as in the A-10, every time there is a period of downtime between major conflicts, ( which they all have served in ) they say the Warthog is no longer needed and surplus to requirements, there is then a major push by politicians to get rid of it. One just wonders what they will do if they ever succeed in doing that. An F-35 is never a replacement for it.
Then at the first chance, attempt to withdraw the backbone of their ground attack fleet as in the A-10, every time there is a period of downtime between major conflicts, ( which they all have served in ) they say the Warthog is no longer needed and surplus to requirements, there is then a major push by politicians to get rid of it. One just wonders what they will do if they ever succeed in doing that. An F-35 is never a replacement for it.
It amazes me how the USA thinks, they appear to procure aircraft that they never really deploy to war zones.
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Time for UK to Go Down Town
The UK needs to expend any remaining JP233 munitions. While designed for taking out airfields, it should be quite effective in taking out a town of ISIS in Syria after a slight navigation error. What about collateral damage? What collateral damage?
Using the 233 which is obsolete would not really cost anything but fuel.
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Using the 233 which is obsolete would not really cost anything but fuel.
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Plus the fact we couldn't use the front end of the JP 233 package as it's an anti personnel cluster munition and is banned in UK law (if we still had them). Most of the empty shells of the dispensers were sitting on the airfield at North Luffenham last time I had a look over the crash gate (which was 15 years ago)
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Plus even if we did, most of those who'd be killed would be innocent townspeople with nothing to do with ISIS, greatly harming our cause. Other than that, great idea.
Champagne anyone...?
I remember discussing the Harvest Hawk option around the bazaars a couple of years ago. Despite it being an enormously obvious solution to various problems, I seem to recall the major stumbling block was 1 Gp getting their knickers bunched about 2 Gp delivering ordnance from a pylon rather than on a pallet.
And then I left and went to work for grown ups.
And then I left and went to work for grown ups.
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From Ricardian's link:
Far be it from me to perpetuate the myth that legislators are prescient, well informed or insightful, but when she said that (last year) just what immediate and pre-eminent threats were bigger on her radar - did NOBODY see this? At least it underscores Obama's statement last week that he didn't - which in itself is yet another worrying concession from a bad administration.
The military also says the plane—the newest of which was built in 1984—cannot survive or operate effectively in combat missions against advanced defenses. “The time has come to move forward,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said.
AC-130 followed by A10s followed by Apaches and followed by Girls scouts should clean it up.....
Well Girls scouts would be there to sell cookies to anybody surviving.............after above do you really think there would be any.....
Course if keep knocking out refinerys then no worries as no fuel no travel.
Well Girls scouts would be there to sell cookies to anybody surviving.............after above do you really think there would be any.....
Course if keep knocking out refinerys then no worries as no fuel no travel.
