Thanks Nastle, its always a pleasure to hear good things about my ideas. I’ve been dreaming about military strategy and tactics from the age of 7 and this is sort of the thing I dig and consequently appreciate a pat in the back so to speak.
If you recall the armed helo attacks of the Syrians in the Bekaa Valley even with a complete superiority of the IDF-AF and how effective they were despite the attrition, I think there just may be a role for CAS still left against a well-armed conventional enemy.
You don’t need an A-5 for tactical battlefield nukes. Pakistan builds basketball sized tactical nukes and uses these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasr_%28missile%29 to deliver them.
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You are welcome !
I think of such things all the time, like a multi-role Su-15 ( instead of a specialized su-25) which has rival capabilities of F-5E.
The incident of syrian helos might have been more effective since IDFAF was engaged else where ( but I could be wrong all I know about is the Tom cooper article on acig)
The CAS you are refering to may be much more effective at night, but the what kind of an avionics fit would be needed for such a configration ? Esp since most IAF fighters in the 90s were day fighters.
These smaller tactcial nukes are very new addition to pak army, I was refering to a late 90s scenario.
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