Senaki and Kopitnari Airports

[Spudman]

Has anyone here seen these two airstrips on Google Earth? If not I suggest you go there and take a look; all of the bomb damage is really interesting to see. Senaki even appears to have trenches and defensive positions.

[Moa]

Yeah, not exactly precision bombing, is it? someone on these forums pointed out that bombing across (diagonal to) the runway increases the chance of getting a hit. This is true but kinda the tactics you'd expect from the 70s were you had a lot of unguided munitions.

 

I doubt the USAF or much of NATO would have used that pattern in 2008 - they have much bigger inventories of precision guided munitions (but not by much, the Libyan operations depleting the PGMs of many airforces to low levels - forcing them to order new stock from their suppliers).

[Tailgate]

Interesting, Looks like Kutaisi got hit in the same way but the runway is repaired. Looks like there's a Mig 23 and a couple of Toads on the tarmac.

 

Also interesting is what Google maps shows as Kobuleti is actually the "X" airfield we use for target practice, what DCS A-10 calls Kobuleti is named Meria Airport in Google maps.

Edited June 15, 2012 by Tailgate

[Vekkinho]

I see no Mig-23...

[Vekkinho]

Yeah, not exactly precision bombing, is it? someone on these forums pointed out that bombing across (diagonal to) the runway increases the chance of getting a hit. This is true but kinda the tactics you'd expect from the 70s were you had a lot of unguided munitions.

 

I doubt the USAF or much of NATO would have used that pattern in 2008 - they have much bigger inventories of precision guided munitions (but not by much, the Libyan operations depleting the PGMs of many airforces to low levels - forcing them to order new stock from their suppliers).

 

 

No, hitting the runway is performed is same manner as hitting a bridge, I can see these craters are pretty perpendicular to it at that there's 20+ craters in each line which makes me think it's a FAB-250 dropped from a Tu-22...