Ed Rasimus wrote:

If anyone was hampered by lack of guns in their fighters, it should
have been the USN, but the initial stats offered in this discussion,
indicate that the USN had better ratios in LB when they had no guns.

During the Linebacker time period, the Navy aircraft spent a lot of time
dropping mines and hitting coastal targets, which reduced their exposure
to the serious SAM defenses.

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