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stackghostyesterday at 7:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

The A-10 carries AGM 88 anti-radiation missiles, and while it's a slow aircraft it can still passably perform SEAD with the AGM 88.


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elictronicyesterday at 7:23 PM

Manpads (man portable air defense) works just fine.

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bijowo1676yesterday at 8:20 PM

Geran-2 (which is Russian licenced Shahed drone) also carries air-to-air missile, so sending slow archaic manned airframe is just suicide mission (aka shaheed)

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-used-shahed-drone-arme...

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