In article ,
"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

In message , Hog Driver
writes

Large dispersion from long slant range by crews who hadn't strafed since the
F-15E school house. That isn't the only reason, but it goes a long way
towards understanding why the strafe passes didn't work so well.

Which is one of the reasons I'm not convinced that "a gun on every
aircraft because we might need it for CAS" is a compelling argument.

....and if that were the only argument, you might have a point.

But since several people have pointed out other good reasons to have
guns on fighters, and since you haven't come up with a good reason to
*not* have one (one more missile or a minute's worth of fuel aren't very
good reasons at all), the only thing left is to think about cost, and
since guns for planes are a very small amount of the final sticker price
of a modern plane...

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