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https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/stat...5sOo31jGjQ


More new footage from Kherson of Bayraktars in an antiarmor role, taking out tanks that are moving and entrenched. Certain that Ukraine is happier with their Bayraktars for close air support than if they had A-10s.

Not to belabor the point, but do you see any Ukrainian troops, or any sign of them, in these videos? I don't. I don't even see any signs of a battle., like shell holes or Russian infantry digging/dug in. What these videos show is interdiction, at best, not CAS. Valuable, but not the same thing. Remember too that you are seeing a video picture made with significant magnification, as the pixelation shows. How high is that drone when it launches?

I suspect Ukraine would accept more of anything, but FWIW in the second Gulf War the A-10s mostly operated above 10K feet using Mavericks to hit their targets. When they went lower they got hit by AAA and that is where they suffered their losses. That is why the USAF powers that be don't like them much. At 10K feet an F-16 is just as good (actually better) and can do other things. There are times when actual CAS is necessary. It is dangerous and will always have higher losses than other missions. The A-10 way of doing that is deemed too costly. If you can't use standoff weapons to do it, high speed hit and run is the current "school solution". That is why the A-10 got pulled from many of those missions because it is just too slow.

[Goose]

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/stat...5sOo31jGjQ


More new footage from Kherson of Bayraktars in an antiarmor role, taking out tanks that are moving and entrenched. Certain that Ukraine is happier with their Bayraktars for close air support than if they had A-10s.

Not to belabor the point, but do you see any Ukrainian troops, or any sign of them, in these videos? I don't. I don't even see any signs of a battle., like shell holes or Russian infantry digging/dug in. What these videos show is interdiction, at best, not CAS. Valuable, but not the same thing. Remember too that you are seeing a video picture made with significant magnification, as the pixelation shows. How high is that drone when it launches?

I suspect Ukraine would accept more of anything, but FWIW in the second Gulf War the A-10s mostly operated above 10K feet using Mavericks to hit their targets. When they went lower they got hit by AAA and that is where they suffered their losses. That is why the USAF powers that be don't like them much. At 10K feet an F-16 is just as good (actually better) and can do other things. There are times when actual CAS is necessary. It is dangerous and will always have higher losses than other missions. The A-10 way of doing that is deemed too costly. If you can't use standoff weapons to do it, high speed hit and run is the current "school solution". That is why the A-10 got pulled from many of those missions because it is just too slow.