Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ryan McBeth"
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1) Not only has Putin said it himself in 2014, the Hostomel gameplan was the same as the invasion of Czechoslovakia invasion. The runway was shelled which nullified the transports landing more troops and armor.
2) Not a fact check.
3) Yeah just like the number killed during Kherson. Yadda yadda. Meanwhile the Pentagon's leaked estimate had almost 3x more KIA on the Russian side.
6) It is a strange argument. Missiles fired from anywhere have a 30 min delivery time. Submarines can get close to coast. The Baltics are already NATO. The red line has been crossed a long time ago. Why is Ukraine special? Also, the US did not invade Cuba over the missiles, it just handled it diplomatically with the Soviet Union.
7) Russia's economy is now supporting a war rather than benefiting the people. They're not decoupled from the West, they're forced to beg for sanctions busting to get the much needed western parts. The global south? Even Brazil and South Africa are wishy-washy on Russia and Australia is opposed to them. There goes the Southern hemisphere.
8) Russian-built air defense has been neutralized by the US before. Ukraine has Soviet aircraft which were never made to hunt down defenses. Russia's air defense works against air forces that lile Russia did not invest in air power as much.
9) AT4s are common in militaries worldwide. Mexican cartels are known for pulling weaponry out of armories. That question is still a waste of time because anyone who's been informed knows cartels had heavy hardware for decades prior to the Ukraine war.
10) Because Hersh can't find anyone to publish his lies. He got the ships wrong, the aircraft wrong, the air mix used in diving wrong, he claimed that Jans Stoltenberg had been working for NATO since he was 16. It was pure fantasy, like bad Tom Clancy knockoff literature. And it wasn't ignored, it was reported by other outlets. But nobody can confirm it because, as you know, the prose is full of lies.
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@tomlobos2871 I'm going to try to be brief. The A-10 was made to be a A-1 Skyraider replacement. Like Lionel Mandrake posted, it was originally meant for Vietnam. The A-7 was an excellent CAS aircraft but too fast to escort helicopters, and too fuel hungry to stay on station. The A-X program was even originally a turboprop engine aircraft because turbojets were inefficient at low speed, and halfway through the program the requirements were changed and turbofan engines allowed them to be reasonably fuel efficient at low speeds.
In the Fulda Gap, the A-10 pilots would be estimated to be all dead or captured by two weeks. They were merely a delaying action, not expected to survive the onslaught.
In a war against insurgents, the A-10 does fine.
In a full scale war, you want the F-16. One pass, haul ass. There's no loiter time. You drop hate on target, turn back to base to bolt more under your wings and take off again.
The Su-25 is forced to perform the "cowardly" role of firing unguided rockets from friendly territory and turning back. Their losses are proving exactly the opposite of what you think. They're easily shot down, and aircraft are complex enough that it's preferable to strip them of usable parts than trying to repair damaged aircraft.
"Add A-10" so an airframe that's been flown beyond the original retirement timeline, has lack of parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago, and is even slower than the Su-25 is going to be an "addition"? I think it would be a subtraction.
The A-10 as a bomb truck? It's extremely slow and thrust limited. It's not very survivable because a modern missile can slice it in half, negating all the fancy shmancy armor. When the nose is physically detached from the tail, it doesn't matter how much armor the pilot or the engines have. Fighter jets are survivable by kinetically outrunning the threat.
You can't loiter in Ukraine. You arrive, fire rockets into the air, turn back or else you die. You have 30 seconds to get in and out or else a missile gets you.
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@jimfarmer7811 Do you think ATGMs teams will just stand by while infantry and IFVs take out the anti-tank missileer crews? Every weapon in warfare has its counter.
The best option is operating where there's no enemy radar presence at all. Second best is destroying the radar. Third best is suppressing it.
If you know there are radar contacts in the area, SEAD cover will lob HARM missiles which are automatically programmed to pitch up and use their rocket burn to gain altitude. As they tip over, the seeker is on. At the moment of firing, SEAD flight will announce a "Magnum!" call on radio. SAM operators will both see the HARM in flight and hear the radio call, prompting them to shut down the emitter. If they're skilled. If they're not, they'll just hear a large bang outside and the radar goes offline. This gives a minute or two of radar suppression. When the radar turns back on, SEAD flight will again fire another HARM and announce the firing on radio to make sure he is heard. Another minute or two of radar suppression. Just like that, the SEAD flight gave the aircraft doing the attack run 2-4 minutes to take care of the job.
"You have to use combined arms to win a war." "You need to use the A-10s as ground support" - That's like saying you have to use M60s or else it's not combined arms. You have infantry, IFVs, artillery, air support and Abrams, but because there's no M60s it's not combined arms.
"The A-10s can orbit" - They can't. Aircraft don't orbit in Ukraine. They fly in, drop payload, fly back out. The clock is ticking and you have SECONDS to make it out alive. Those who don't... we have the video of them either ejecting or losing their lives. The footage is widely distributed and you're denying it.
"They would sweep in with fire and forget weapons" - They can't. The fire and forget weapons require line of sight, which means flying above the horizon to scout and acquire targets. They would sweep in, spend several minutes using the pod to look for enemies, and then not get to launch or return because a missile brought them down. They would need to spent time over the enemy to look for their positions on a 8 inch screen. It is suicide.
I'd rather give them the weapons that put them in the least risk.
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