kitplane01
Airman 1st Class
- 132
- Apr 23, 2020
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If you are beyond rifle range you are beyond visual range of troops on the ground.
Troops on the ground are going to have rifle caliber machine guns even if no proper AA guns.
Are you sure this is true?
My understanding of Vietnam was the AC-130s would be brought in to attack an area, not to target individual soldiers. And I don't think electro-optics were that great in 1969.
that's just wwi all over againBetter to drop a big pile of frags on the target.
Used to watch one or both of these PB4Y's on initial approach while flying fire seasons during the 1990s. Those I saw were operating out of the BOI/Gowen Field location of the Boise/National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, just about a mile and a half south of my house. What a beautiful noise!In a sense, the B-24 (PB4Y) did end up performing ground attack missions:
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