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Originally Posted by Badbru
I'd be thinking generally, if it flys then it can drop bombs. From thinking old school WW1 style, Sopwith Camel pilots dropping 60mm mortar rounds out the cockpit to CH46/CH47/CH53 cargo helo's dropping Daisy Cutter FAE bombs down the rear cargo ramp! It'll all depend upon the defence at the target as to success. Most Industrial targets dont respond well to fire and an FAE bomb creates massive fire.
I also rate the Sea Harriers. In the Falklands war the Brits creamed the Argies and the Argies were good pilots with sometimes better weapons. I vaguely recall the Argies using a newer verion of the sidewinder than the Brits were.
Atlantic Conveyer was a Container Cargo ship they flew a Sea Harrier and a CH47 Chinook off of. You don't even need your pocket carrier Webstral.
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I agree that the Harriers did well over the South Atlantic, but do remember they was playing defence against aircraft that was there to attack ships, not play with the defenders any more than they have to: never did any Argie aircraft go out with the specific mission of peeling back the CAP. If they had, I think the record of the Harrier wouldn't have been as good down that way, and they might have done better at knocking back the RN with their attack aircraft.
That said, they did do better than a lot of folks would have guessed before the whole thing got kicked off.