Ozzy Blizzard
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First i said presission, and theres no friggin way a soviet erra Su24 could achieve presission strikes on a single target comperable to that achieved by a IRT pod/PGM equiped western fighter (especially at night), no more than a Ju 87 could have. It was massed firepower, never presission for Ivan, so no i doubt they could bomb that accuratly, but they didnt need to becasue of the area coverd by massed munitions.
Your talking high altitude PGM capability vs conventional dumb bombs. The advantage of that should be plainly obvious to blind freddy. But in case you think being able to "hit" a target with rockets or bombs is comperable to hiting it with a single PGM accuratly i'll illustrate the difference. 1, you have focused lethality, meaning you can use a single weapon for a single target rather than hitting a wider area with several munitions to ensure a kill. 2, High altitude, you can accuratly hit small targets, reliably at 10,20,30 000ft (depending on the wether) which means you platform is much, much, much safer becasue you are above 90% of the threat. 3, You can hit a single target with a single weapon meaning you can hit many more targets per sortie. A single Su24 carrying a dumb load would most likely drop its whole payload on an area target to ensure it hit what it was supposed to, one carrying the same number of PGM's can hit 6 individual targets.
Basically they can hit more targets per sorty, safer, reliably, precisely at high altitude. That's a huge advantage for the RuAF and one they did not enjoy before the introduction of damocles (EO guided aside). THAT was my point.
