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To: sukhoi-30mki
It's the quality of airpower that decides the outcome of any war now

That is incredibly limited thinking. How many Serbian tanks did airpower kill in Kosovo? Airpower is important and has its uses, but to think it is the be all and end all is foolish.

9 posted on 10/01/2004 12:41:09 PM PDT by blanknoone (Red + Yellow = Orange)
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To: blanknoone

& how many tanks did the Serbians field in that conflict???they kept most of their tanks(as well as their few high value S-300 SAMs) hidden out of the conflict zone .What I mean't was (superior) air operations widen your scope of operations & radically limit that of your enemy.Hence during the Lebanon war of 82 & Gulf War 1,the Syrians & Iraqis had most of their effective airpower wiped out & soon their armoured forces ,pretty much on their own,had to face up to both enemy armour as well as airpower & we all know the skewed results of those 2 conflicts.It would have been more or less the same even if the Iraqis/Syrians were operating M1A2 or Leopard 2 tanks.


12 posted on 10/01/2004 12:50:19 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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