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Default Possible reason the A-10 is being dropped

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Ignoramus32266 wrote:

I was thinking, about those smart fuzed bombs and such.

Are they actually effective against a smart opponent?

Could they be rendered useless by some simple tricks, like inflatable
tanks, spray painted tank outlines on the ground, or something else
that is cheap but can confuse those weapons?


Although not mentioned in the video, these can hit moving targets.

For stationary targets, I'm sure that self-heated decoys could work.

Basically, the original rationale was to break a mass of tanks flowing
through the Fulda Gap in Germany, from afar.

The Warsaw Pact had something like three or four times as many tanks as
Nato, so there was lots of attention spent on ways to even the balance.
Actually, The A-10 was one of these ways.

Joe Gwinn