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Anon · 08-26-2006, 14:02 PM

Regardless of what SAMs you have the USAF is always going to have longer range precision guided weapons, so from that perspective, the attacker has the edge...as long as he knows where you are.

Which is of course, the hard part.

The truth is the US could launch a weapon off the coast of Sicily that could kill any SAM launcher you've got anywhere in Iraq. So that gets into what Shipwreck was talking about in the A-10 thread, and using your AAA/SAM assests as a guerilla force, launching ambushes from unexpected locations, etc.

Like the Iraqis did over Karballa during OIF. Also, during the first gulf war, the Iraqis actually called a mortar strike on a Battalion of hovering Apaches, scoring some minor schrapnel hits.(no A/C lost, but it certainly disprupted the attack plan, lol)

It's all how ya use the stuff.

08-26-2006, 14:02 PM	#60 (permalink)
Anon New Member Join Date: 08-03-03 Posts: 0	Regardless of what SAMs you have the USAF is always going to have longer range precision guided weapons, so from that perspective, the attacker has the edge...as long as he knows where you are. Which is of course, the hard part. The truth is the US could launch a weapon off the coast of Sicily that could kill any SAM launcher you've got anywhere in Iraq. So that gets into what Shipwreck was talking about in the A-10 thread, and using your AAA/SAM assests as a guerilla force, launching ambushes from unexpected locations, etc. Like the Iraqis did over Karballa during OIF. Also, during the first gulf war, the Iraqis actually called a mortar strike on a Battalion of hovering Apaches, scoring some minor schrapnel hits.(no A/C lost, but it certainly disprupted the attack plan, lol) It's all how ya use the stuff. Last edited by Anon : 08-26-2006 at 14:04 PM.