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So the secret of battlefield survival in aircraft that has low digit chaff/flare and no ECM?


DmitriKozlowsky

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This is a plane that entered in service in 1973 for battlefields of that era. Not to drop those planes in battlefields of the 90´s or the 2000´s is a good idea. Mig-19, Mig-21 and Mig-23 should be its main enemies. Also, it´s not a plane for deep attacks into enemy territory (ground attack is just a secondary mission for this version, F1CE), but to intercept enemy bombers and fighter-bombers into its own territory where there were no concern about SAM. The F1M (modernized) had better avionics (including better RWR), and ECM and Chaff pods, so it was a capable fighter-bomber that could enter into enemy territory to perform attacks.

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Planning.  One pass, haul ass.  No need to loiter - this isn't an A-10.

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Weren't some of the French produced ECM pods the very best of the era?  I recall stories of French F1s being escorted by USAF fighters where the US fighters were more interested in gathering data on the French ECM systems than they were interested in Iraqi fighters, and that the pods that the Iraqis had on their EQs were better than what the AdA were using at the time.

That's probably a bit of a derail, but most of the secret is to not be shot at and to work as a team with other assets.

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