This happened in the Iraq invasion too. First media reported what the US government wanted everyone to hear but over time, it becomes harder to not admit things went awry.
They also hype up the capability of things like A-10 so much that they have to atribute every single air-to-ground tank kill to A-10 during the war. It’s not until decades after the SECOND war, during the Afghan campaign, that it’s revealed how inflated those number were.
(what is it with all fascists regimes that they have tendencies to overinflate military equipments performance.)
It’s even worst when you look at their friendly fire rate. A-10 has such terrible situation awareness that it’s easy for the pilot to misidentify friendly targets as hostile. Combining with the fact A-10 pilot have far less brutal qualification criteria than fighter pilots and…well, you can see where this is going.
Not to mention, as quoted from a US army personal from Afghanistan, “The A-10 usually took their sweet time getting anywhere. When we call for air support, we usually have a reason to require them as son as possible, so speed is a real issue for CAS aircraft.”
This happened in the Iraq invasion too. First media reported what the US government wanted everyone to hear but over time, it becomes harder to not admit things went awry.
They also hype up the capability of things like A-10 so much that they have to atribute every single air-to-ground tank kill to A-10 during the war. It’s not until decades after the SECOND war, during the Afghan campaign, that it’s revealed how inflated those number were.
(what is it with all fascists regimes that they have tendencies to overinflate military equipments performance.)
They look in the mirror and see what we see of them: a paper tiger. They just won’t admit it to the general population.
Ah the good old “superior german steel” myth forever alive and even mutating.
F-15, F-16 and Aardvarks taking out most enemies:
A-10 claiming all kills: https://megaprojects.net/featured/the-a-10-warthog-worse-than-you-think/
B-but muh brrrt! Muh plane-built-around-the-gun!
It’s even worst when you look at their friendly fire rate. A-10 has such terrible situation awareness that it’s easy for the pilot to misidentify friendly targets as hostile. Combining with the fact A-10 pilot have far less brutal qualification criteria than fighter pilots and…well, you can see where this is going.
Not to mention, as quoted from a US army personal from Afghanistan, “The A-10 usually took their sweet time getting anywhere. When we call for air support, we usually have a reason to require them as son as possible, so speed is a real issue for CAS aircraft.”
“You say friendly fire, I call this a 25 killstreak”