Coming back to the A-10, a couple of questions...?

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14 hours ago, Yurgon said:

You're right, these T-72s sure ate a lot of ammo. I'm more impressed that 2 of them survived a CBU-97; in Tacview it looks like the bomb was right on top of them. In the past in DCS, CBU-97 would have MBTs for breakfast.

The gun runs looked good, but most of them were from different directions, weren't they? There's still a chance the ERA took the brunt of the impacts.

I simply don't know how much hits it would, or should, take to kill a T-72B with the GAU-8. I'm also not sure if anything changed in DCS. My understanding is that the GAU-8 can potentially kill MBTs, but it isn't guaranteed to do so against modern tanks, especially when they're protected by ERA, which I believe "our" T-72Bs are. For a high probability of kill, Mavs and direct hits by Mk-82 series bombs (or above) will do the job, the gun is kind of a last resort. And yeah, tankers doing very accurate protective fires with 7.62 when there's a barrage of 30mm incoming, that may not be what one would expect to see in real life, either.

All that said, the GAU-8 would be well suited to take care of IFVs and APCs while leaving the main battle tanks for heavier weapons - if it wasn't for the gunners in those vehicles who, at least at some point in the past, were a lot more accurate and deadly than even the ZSU-23...

Thanks for looking into it.  The CBU landed long, so I think that's why they survived that one.  As you say, you've got to admire the balls on those cupola gunners returning fire though!  Not sure I would have the nerve to stare down an offensive A-10 like that.