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Re:Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies by chipsa on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:21AM (#22874464)
The no gun thing is over hyped. The Navy never did install guns in their fighters in Vietnam, and still ended up reversing the kill ratio.
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Re:Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies by razzmataz on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:53AM (#22875523)
They started carrying gunpods at the time. Missiles of the era were inaccurate and finicky.
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Re:Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies by chipsa on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:30AM (#22876537)
No, the Navy didn't [0]. The Air Force did carry them. They Navy got better at avoiding the weaknesses.

0. https://combatace.com/forums/topic/91818-the-f-4-phantom-and...

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Re:Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies by jki275 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:12AM (#22877271)
It was all about missiles. Once the missiles got fixed, the kill ratio turned around very quickly.

And yes, had nothing to do with guns. Guns are and have been obsolete on fighter aircraft for decades.

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