LVT's are soft.

[icepac]

But modeled well in game.

I guess they're mainly armored against rifles and light machine guns and you're assuming you have air superiority when you launch them.

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[Dundee]

Yes they were death traps if you wanted to jump ship and shell a strat....

[bozon]

Aahh the F100 Super Saber. This plane has perhaps the highest Looks/Effectiveness ratio of any jet age plane. And by that I mean that it is good looking but not THAT beautiful...

[redcatcherb412]

Aahh the F100 Super Saber. This plane has perhaps the highest Looks/Effectiveness ratio of any jet age plane. And by that I mean that it is good looking but not THAT beautiful...

From the ground when they were providing CAS they were beautiful angels spitting fire and death. May 8th 1968 Tan Than village 3 miles SW of Saigon supporting B Co 4th Btn/12th Inf 199th Light Infantry. You had to wonder about NVA intel, planning a ground attack just miles off the runway of Ton Son Nhut Airbase.
If you needed 500lbs dropped a few hundred feet away, the Hun did the trick. Just keep your head down. As you can see by the radio antennas in the dirt, the buttons on our fatigues kept us too high.

[bozon]

Oh yes, F-100s did important job, but as far as I know the pilots hated it (both the plane and CAS...).
For the boys in the mud, any plane in friendly colors that drops crap on the enemy looks like an angel. If the USAF came with the Wright brothers Flier 1 and dropped dirty underwear on the enemy, that too would have seem beautiful.

[redcatcherb412]

Very important job and did it well. If you've never been under a really close CAS mission and had  500lb iron drop a few hundred feet from you or a 20mm cannon pod walking the rounds just off your position to the enemy. You would never be able to comprehend how good these guys really were, especially going the speeds they were.

Believe me you thank your lucky stars the training these guys went through. The shockwaves from those close hits turn your insides to jelly and you won't hear right for days.

The Phantoms were pretty birds. The Skyraiders downright scary looking if all the ord pods were hung. The South Viet Skyraider jocks were just downright daredevils all but taking the tops of the trees off. But my favorite CAS still was the F100.

You can be sure that there were times we wished they carried clean skivvy pods to drop.