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The numbers don’t tell you everything. It still took skill, experience & determination on the part of the US pilots in Gulf War 1 to knock out Iraqi MIGs and Mirages out of the sky even though most were running away from the fight.
The MIG 29s were good, but without good & agressive piloting, poor SA and almost non existent GCI on the Iraqi side. Basically, they ran & did not try to fight.
The F15 record for 101 to 0 kills are for the F15C version.
Are there any kills from F15 Ds or Es ?
In all cases, the F15s had overwelming air superiority with AWACs and electronic warefare aircraft vectoring them to their targets. Had US pilots used MIG 29s instead of F15s in this same situation, what do you think the outcome will be ?
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Comparing specs of one plane to another makes no sense.
Even with AWACS ,electronic warfare assets & total air supremacy, US F15C pilots needed to muster all their skills to bring down Iraqi MIG 23s, 29s & Mirage F1s in air to air combat.
You may have a good plane, but more importantly , you need a very good pilot.
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Quote ” The OTO Melara 76/62 Super Rapid is a lightweight, rapid-fire, dual-purpose gun capable of engaging airborne and surface targets.”
It is therefore more of an all purpose weapon, but is is not designed specifically to engage ShShMs, although it has capability to do so if required. In this sense, it is not a true CIWS per se unlike Phalanx, Zenith, Meroka , Millenius which were from the outset designed with the primary purpose of being true last ditch weapons.
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I think that a CIWS ( especially gun based ) is absolutely necessary as the last ditch measure.
Aster 15 can engage a ASMs up to max of 15 km away. If it misses , then I dont think the 76 mm will be up to the task to engage sea skimming ShShMs. It is designed mainly as a general purpose gun with limited capability against ShShMs.
30 mm Typhoon may not be adequate. Need new generation ( read programmable & prox ammo ) gun ammo & completely autonomous operation against ASMs. Typhoon design mainly to engage surface targets and perhaps against aircraft targets.
The Phalanx cud not engage the target in SINKEX as it is configured to automatically engage high speed targets - the target in this case was not even moving . However, no problem to engage manually using the optics.
An advantage with gun CIWS is that you can also engage small water craft, air to surface munitions ( eg AGM 65s, glide bombs & even arty shells ) , RPVs etc cost effectively.
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There are many good fighting units in TNI & they will beat the sh.. out of any worthy opponent and ...............they do not use black magic, only real bullets.
Man for man, they are every good but they are probably no match for a modern, well trained & led combined arms unit. But they will give you a hard fight.
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Reality is that man handled 81s and even 60s are necessary as not all situations one can use 120 SR. Also, as arball pointed out , depending solely on the arty battalion has its risks. Having your own mortars in an infantry battalion gives you very much more responsive fire support when the " sh.." hits the fan.
Thats why in US Army Stryker Brigades the mortar carriers carry 60s and I think also 81s for dismounted use.
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If true, it is strange that SAF does not use 60 and 81 mm mortars since these weapons seem to be very effective & useful in the fighting in Iraq & in other conflicts in recent history & in during the World Wars.
US Infantry battalions have a generous inventory of these weapons in their TOE.
Manhandled mortars have proved their worth is almost all major combat so far. Wonder if this is equipment shortfall in SAF shud be addressed.
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Has the F14 AIM54 s hit anything in combat ? Never heard that they ever did. Only read that AIM54 are next to worthless in real combat since they never came close to hitting anything.
Super Hornets are a very big improvement over the F 14. Dont forget that F14 s are from the bygone era of the analogue age whereas the Super Hornets are fuly digitised.
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