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From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: sorties per day
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.054656.2355@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 05:46:56 GMT
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From: Irving Chidsey <chidsey@smoke.brl.mil>

In article <1991Feb28.053505.11394@cbnews.att.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes:
<
<According to published figures, US and other Coalition aircraft
<generally get in between 1.5 and 2 sorties per day.  In the Six Days
<War, and in the Yom Kippur War, Israeli planes routinely got in five
<sorties per day.  
<
<How do the IDF mechanics do it?  Why can't or don't the US and other
<Coalition air forces achieve the same turnaround?

	They achieved 6 sorties a day because they had to.  We did not need
to achieve more than 1.5 or 2, so we didn't.  Remember, their national
survival depended on it.  They had the choice, 'fly, or die', and they
flew.  We had the luxury of not having to stress our air and ground crews
to the limit, and our commanders took the reasonable choice of not doing so.

								Irv

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