Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Meet The Polish A-10 Killer - Skorpion Fighter Jet" video.

  1. The BAE aircraft was not a ground attack aircraft, as it would have been used against the Soviet Union's large fleets of helicopters. It was realised that if the Soviet Union and NATO went to war the Soviets could use these large fleets of helicopters to land troops and even light troop carriers in NATO's rear areas attacking Headquarters, supplies et cetera. The idea was to use a highly agile aircraft with a rear mounted turboprop engine which would have flown at very low level to attack these fleets while they were still in the air. The aircraft would have had something like a 20 mm M61 Vulcan rotary cannon and a number of short range air-to-air missiles under each wing. The aim was to disrute these helicopter fleets before they got into NATOs rear and break up their attack.
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