Web: from talking with my cousin Jacqui (USN F/A-18E driver), the usual limit for AAA is 10,000 feet. You hardly see the heavy AAA anymore, like the 85-mm and 100-mm that one saw in NVN. Most of the AAA systems seen these days are 57-mm and below. Unless you're going in to support troops in contact, or have ordnance that requires a low level delivery (A-10s and their guns, for example, or if dropping aerial mines in a waterway, say), pilots these days generally stay above 10,000 feet. Obviously, if we have to take apart an IADS on a no-notice basis, tactics will be different until the target system is torn apart.
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