"Kirk Stant" wrote in message
om...
Just for fun, off the top of your heads, which post-WW2 combat
aircraft (any country) have NOT been used in their intended roles in
an actual shooting war (or police action, or soccer riot, or whatever
it's called these days)?

And why?

Some ROE:

1. Combat aircraft means it was designed or modified to employ
air-to-air or air-to-ground/ship/boat weapons.

2. Combat means someone was activily shooting back (or really wanted
to) while the aircraft was performing it's mission.

3. Let's leave out recce, that just gets too complicated!

To start things off, here are my USAF candidates:

B-36 - Held back from Korea for Nuke mission.
B-47 - Too early for Korea, too late for Vietnam (remember, no recce).
F-84F - Too early for Korea (ef considered a separate aircraft from
straight-wing F-84s), too late for Vietnam. Combat use by other
countries?
F-89 - Too late for Korea (?), not needed (no bomber threat).
F-106 - Not needed in Vietnam - F-102s deployed instead.
F-101 (Yeah, I know about the RF-101 in Cuba and Vietnam). Don't know
why F-101Cs weren't used early in Vietnam. Being phased out by then?

Everything else got lots of chances to do their thing.

At first glance, looks like the US taxpayer is getting a pretty good
deal for his money!

Kirk
(tired of all the non-mil av bull**** on this group)

I don't believe the AV-8A Harrier ever saw combat with the Marines. I don't
believe they were at Grenada or Lebanon). Of course the British versions did
as did the AV-8B's. The difference between the AV-8A and the B are so great
that the B has to be considered a new aircraft. Kinda like the old and new
F/A-18's.

But it seems that every body is nit-picking between models so there are
quite a few that didn't make combat according to those criteria. Quite a few
early models of the B-52 for example,
Then add the A-5A /A-5B, the original F8U(F-8A), the F-8E(FN), F-105B, some
of the early models of the A-4, etc. As you can see it can get rediculas in
a hurry


Someone else said the B-45/RB-45. But the B-45 saw action in Vietnam
dropping bombs.

Red Rider