It was designed to effectively attack Soviet tanks in an environment defended by these:
Radar-sighted quad-23mm cannon.
It wouldn’t be effective in against an enemy that has good anti-aircraft coverage.
It was designed to effectively attack Soviet tanks in an environment defended by these:
Radar-sighted quad-23mm cannon.
It was designed to go up against the Soviets, and theirvADA wasn’t something to be ignored.
An F-16, mud hen, or F-35 would have been turned into a flaming ball of wreckage instead of RTB with this sort of damage:
http://warthognews.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-archives-10-80-0258-from-172nd.html?m=1
There was the A-10 flown by Capt Kim Campbell that was shot up over Iraq and was able to RTB with no hydraulics.
There was another from Desert Storm that had a huge hole blown through the wing that again the pilot was able to RTB.