In case of a conventional war between two countries, could kamikaze planes be used again?

In case of a conventional war between two countries, could kamikaze planes be used again?

Like a war Greece vs Turkey where they would use stockpiled old or broken jet planes. They would be flown by retired pilots or those that are not able to fly useful planes like F-16.

They would be chosen among volunteers that don't have family or have some terminal illness.

The objective of these planes would be to attack enemy air bases or fuel depots without risking the lost of a worthy plane or pilot

Could this be implemented in real life?

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no they'd get shot down by anti air missiles.

Let's take they fly 10ft above the sea

I'll see your ten feet and say my missile launchers have quantum radar imaging and void shield technology

Better waste a F-104 than a Taurus missile

Besides the PR issues with kamikaze missions, retired pilots are too valuable to treat like that. They are still valuable serving as pilots in non-combat roles (eg logistics). Besides, old F-4 phantoms and now F-16s have been modified into remotely piloted target drones (QF-4 and QF-16), why not just renovate them as cruise missiles normally?

Better than using it as a fighter bomber for sure...

There are two options


Using it as a regular fighter-bomber in an almost suicide mission or just adding it a big bomb and made it kamilaze

Kamikaze tactics died when SAM's became effective.

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There are cruise missiles now did you know that

Why dont Just put dogs or monkeys instead

Cruise missiles are more expensive than a suicidal teen-ager in a 1960s plane

You could just put a crappy autopilot with a barebones algorithm along the lines of "detect big thing on radar, crash into big thing".

It is not as effective as a man who can difference a type of ship from another

>a suicidal teen-ager in a 1960s plane
the cost of training a pilot is way more than any cruise missile you fucking retard

Let's take he already know how to fly it

Either because he flew another type of plane before or because he was discharged out of fighter plane school because he snorted coke (or something like that)

>Let's take he already know how to fly it
then he's already worth more than any cruise missile, you can replace planes and cruise missiles or whatever easily. You can't replace pilots easily.

Can't even image how high the wing loading is with a CAS/FB loadout.

THEY HAD FUCKING GUENTHER RALL OF ALL PEOPLE AS THE LUFTWAFFE CHIEF INSPECTOR AND COMMANDER DURING THIS STUPID THING'S SERVICE LIFE AS A FIGHTER BOMBER.

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There are lots of pilots that get expelled of training cause they don't have level enough and they go back to civilian life

They basically know how to take off and fly a Texan-II or Hawk but they are not good enough to be military pilots (they fail their exams or whatever)

Those are who I mean

Interestingly this is exactly how glider pilots were "selected" in ww2

Let's take there's a total war between Venezuela and Colombia.

Venezuela is going to be defeated anyway but they want to make some harm before losing.

Their planes lack the ability to launch an attack on Bogota's bunker. Instead they give an old training plane (one that has broken parts) to some pilot with cancer or depression.

He has greater chances to crash his jet against an American carrier than a Su-27 has of firing a missile at it and going back to base successfuly

Kamikaze drones would be quite useful.

But drones are too slow and slim

It's not the same suffering the impact of a reaper at 350kmh than a Hawk at 800kmh

>Kamikaze drones

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