Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadoWarrior
"What each side brings to the fight" also applies to the offense. The ATGM won't be much of an issue, even in open terrain, because US doctrine calls for Apaches to lead the tanks. Those T-90s would be Hellfire'd long before the M1s would be in danger. The modern battlefield is three-dimensional, and includes close air support.
|
That worked fine in Iraq where they had 3rd rate AAA and most of their air defence had been destroyed prior to the invasion. iraq relied far too much on fixed air defence anyway.
In a theoretical scrap against Russia you are dealing the with the best air defence assets in the world at the moment. Also your shiny M1's will be facing Russian MIL-28's and KA-50's with the added problem that American air defence assets are very much behind the curve.
modern, Russian mobile air defence will murder western aviation.