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
I'll see your ten feet and say my missile launchers have quantum radar imaging and void shield technology
Aaron Foster
Better waste a F-104 than a Taurus missile
Gavin Butler
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?
Blake Phillips
Better than using it as a fighter bomber for sure...
Charles Torres
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
Mason Parker
Kamikaze tactics died when SAM's became effective.
Cruise missiles are more expensive than a suicidal teen-ager in a 1960s plane
Jace Watson
You could just put a crappy autopilot with a barebones algorithm along the lines of "detect big thing on radar, crash into big thing".
Tyler Williams
It is not as effective as a man who can difference a type of ship from another
Ryder Hughes
>a suicidal teen-ager in a 1960s plane the cost of training a pilot is way more than any cruise missile you fucking retard
Grayson Thompson
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)
Austin Price
>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.
Jordan Morgan
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.
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
Wyatt Cox
Interestingly this is exactly how glider pilots were "selected" in ww2
Parker Sanders
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
Landon Rodriguez
Kamikaze drones would be quite useful.
Jayden Gomez
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