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Strac Trooper
 
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Sh0t,
For SEAD type missions, the MC would have to depend on FA-18s. The Harrier is not equiped for the SEAD missile, the AGM-88 HARM. MANPADs pose an even greater threat to Airborne drops than choppers. In order to keep a tight drop pattern, A/C can't really maneuver...Big lumbering C-130 makes easy target for MANPAD. Choppers can avoid MANPAD easier.
 
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Good responses warpusher,ShOt, and rickdog. Keep working and the logistics of it will be figured out. Then we will forward to the CMC for approval.
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If you could get an entire Battalion airborne dropped behind a beachhead I could see some good uses for a Marine airborne unit. They would allow the seaborne units time to land without reienforcements arriving from further inland. They may still be airlanded by the Osprey too to eliminate the Marines being spread out from a airborne drop too. So the Osprey gives the Marines many advantages if it works properly. Does anyone know if the Army has ever looked into it?
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to be able to use anymore than 1 C130 off of a carrier you would have to have it specialy built with large enough elevators to store them.
Now that would be a sight
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Strac Trooper
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What I'm wondering about the V-22 is it's ability to deploy troops in an airborne assault. The picture shows it deploying troops, but that is more akin to a HALO drop. Can the V-22 be equipped to jump troopers via Static line and T-10C parachute? What other type of euqipment could be air dropped? has air drops of equipment pallets for heavy items been performed?
Sh0t,
sorry for the SEAD mixup...SEAD to the USAF = Wild Weasals w/ HARMs. MANPADS are effectively killed off with some CBU's dropped in their general location.
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In our war on terror it's not the MANPADS that concern me. It's the MENARMED with the AK-47s, RPK's, RPG's, PKM's, and .51 cals that concern me. Those things do a damn damn on hovering, landing, and taking off helicopters.
When was the last time a US C-130, C-141, C-17, or C-5 was brought down by MANPADS? I rest my case.
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| Where is the cannon or machineguns on the V-22?
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When that .50 cal/25 mm comes out, that would be good.
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