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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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Subject: Re: A-10 Thunderbolt
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Date: 1 Nov 89 04:50:33 GMT
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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
In article <10738@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>First, what jamming?  I don't recall any jamming gear on the A-10s, and
>the deep-strike boys are certainly going to get first call on the limited
>supply of jamming pods and specialized jamming aircraft.
>
>Second, what chaff?  Do the A-10s have chaff dispensers now?  They didn't
>originally.  (I may have missed an upgrade, though.)
>
>Third, what defense suppression?  The big danger to an A-10 is not the
>heavy SAMs that the D.S. boys will be concentrating on, but the light
>vehicles up in the front lines, and all those infantrymen packing SA-7s
>and the like.  (A lot of these missiles, being IR homers, will ignore
>chaff and jamming anyway.)  Lots and lots of them will be getting shots
>off.  The relatively light missiles involved, especially the man-portable
>ones, might not knock down an A-10 with one hit... but they won't be
>arriving one at a time.
>

	The A-10's have had big decoy dispensers installed since day 1.  They
all are normally loaded with flares, but in wartime there would be almost
certainly 8 flares in the 60 slots. (I may be wrong on this size, correct me
if you can...).  
	They also got a lot of ALQ-119 jamming pods deployed to the front line
units.  Not top of the line, but good...  many A-10's will fly with them
in any conflict.

	The 60 slot decoy dispenser is to deal with the SA-7 Strella 
concentration near the front...  They are usually set on automatic drop
before initiating an attack run.


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George William Herbert  UCB Naval Architecture Dpt. (my god, even on schedule!)
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