Talk:Tank plinking

first link is deprecated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.108.69.162 (talk) 20:25, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

How does the destruction of a T-72 involve "the taking of five lives"? The T-72 has a crew of three. How come someone added that the GAU-8 of the A-10 was "overkill" for a T-72 while in reality it would be the opposite ? Also why is the prudent claim that PavewayII's where the best weapon for taking out tanks? In reality a direct hit needs to be scored while weapons like the Rockeye CB-100 clusterbomb where used to much greater effect. I recommend scraping this entire part of the article. two more outside to push, maybe? pauli 04:14, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

The "tank plinking" page states:  "Colonel Tom Lennon and the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing flew 664 successful sorties over twenty-three days." I don't know how many sorties the Colonel flew, but it is quite impossible to fly 664 in 23 days. This would amount to one every 50 minutes for the entire period, assuming no breaks for things like eating or sleeping. Sixty-four is feasible and perhaps the correct number, but could someone please provide the verified correct number. Jhocking596 21:55, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

You're assuming that the 48th TWF consists of only one aircraft. The quote does not specify that Col. Lennon flew all those sorties himself, but rather his entire wing, which consists of three squadrons with twelve to eighteen aircraft each. The 48th TFW has two squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagles (the F-15C/D are incapable of engaging ground targets in the manner the article specifies). So if we assume that the ground attack squadrons have the lowest number possible (24 aircraft), divided on the 664 sorties, we get 27.6666667 sorties per aircraft. Divide this on the 23 days we're talking about, and we get a lowly 1.2 sorties per aircraft over that period of time. Less if we assume that there are more aircraft per squadron. So yes, I believe that 664 sorties is more than feasable for the 48th TFW. -Anonymous 18:39, 24 July 2007 (GMT)

Most of the current background seems irrelevant to the term itself IMO. LudwikSzymonJaniuk (talk) 13:37, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Operation Night Camel
It might be worth adding why this was done at night. IIRC it was something to do with different rates of cooling of sand and metal once the sun went down, so tanks and APCs stood out on IR. 203.7.140.3 (talk) 01:36, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

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