laritaia wrote:practical air to ground warload for both the F-35 and F16 is a pair of 2000lb(1000lb on the F-35b) bombs or 4 1000lb bombs on the F-16 if it uses the BRU-55
Sure, and in the Gulf very few Abrams fired all 42 rounds each day for several days on end, or sometimes even twice per day, while many aircraft did exactly the equivalent.
Gallia- wrote:HMS Vanguard wrote:It doesn't much help that a tank costs 1/10 as much as an aircraft if you need 10x as many.
I don't think any country in the world has ten times as many tanks as they do jet aircraft, though. It's closer to 1:1. Canada, Germany, Britain, Australia, France, etc. all have comparable numbers of fighter jets in service to tanks anyway. Perhaps even the US Army and USAF are comparable.
That might be true of expeditionary powers, which are limited by logistics. The Russian army has 5x as many tanks as the Russian air force has aircraft in total.