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"the size of the attacking helicopter force did not dramatically change the exchange ratio between helicopters and tanks"Precisely why I wanted to read it. Hell Tank apparently racked up a 45-to-1 ratio in favour of the helicopter! But that bit about US findings is odd.Given that Hell Tank took place in 1966/7, that was before the Ansbach tests, but I'm pretty sure that is the "US findings" he is referring to. In Ansbach they ran the tests with 2 scouts and 1 Cobra, and then just 2 Cobras, which might be what he's talking about? Ansbach showed that using separate scouts lowered overall losses, because the scouts always scouted and never tried to press an attack, whereas the gunships acting alone would sometimes try to approach a target they saw and fly over another tank. But this isn't really so much about the size of the force, just its composition, so I'm not certain this is what he means.Is there any footnote or citation?
"the size of the attacking helicopter force did not dramatically change the exchange ratio between helicopters and tanks"
Precisely why I wanted to read it. Hell Tank apparently racked up a 45-to-1 ratio in favour of the helicopter! But that bit about US findings is odd.
Given that Hell Tank took place in 1966/7, that was before the Ansbach tests, but I'm pretty sure that is the "US findings" he is referring to. In Ansbach they ran the tests with 2 scouts and 1 Cobra, and then just 2 Cobras, which might be what he's talking about? Ansbach showed that using separate scouts lowered overall losses, because the scouts always scouted and never tried to press an attack, whereas the gunships acting alone would sometimes try to approach a target they saw and fly over another tank. But this isn't really so much about the size of the force, just its composition, so I'm not certain this is what he means.
Is there any footnote or citation?
