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From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: sorties per day
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Date: 28 Feb 91 05:35:05 GMT
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From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)

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.  Granted, the distances flown in the Iraq and Kuwait
theater are greater than the Israeli pilots flew against Egypt and
Syria, but not enough to account for the differences in 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?
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Ronald Florence			ron@mlfarm.com