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From: smpod@helios.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air Superiority over Kuwait?
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.044045.6944@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 04:40:45 GMT
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From: smpod@helios.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
In article <1991Jan14.010850.5731@cbnews.att.com>, pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson) writes...
>Are there any indications of what kind of opposition the UN (mostly
>US) aerial forces will encounter over the Gulf region? Looking at the
>two previous major wars the US has fought shows a disconcerting trend:
>In Korea the kill ratio was approximately 10 to 1, but in Vietnam it
>was 2 to 1. 

In Vietnam the Navy reevaluated its tactics and training procedures which
resulted in the Top Gun school. This paid off in moving the kill ratios
back to 10 to 1.
Today's news show that the U.S. has probably bested the results obtained
by the Israelis in the Bekaa (sp?) valley (ratio of 80 to 1).