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To: combjelly who wrote (228739)	4/12/2005 11:53:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576778

In most cases figures like .6 kills per shot or more (esp .9 kills per shot or better) are achieved either through total surprise and very few shots combined with expert shooters using the best equipment (a good sniper with a good rifle will usually kill on his first shot, and often move out before taking a 2nd), or are found only on test ranges where the conditions are known before hand and no one is shooting back at you. Soviet tactics are relatively inflexable but even in mass wave attacks its hard to get a result quite that favorable. Perhaps when the Soviets opponents first started to use stingers and no countermeasures (tactical or technical) where used, but I doubt that anything like .9 kills per shot was maintained for any length of time. To lower the kill ratio below that wouldn't require brilliance just a mediocre level of competence on any of several levels. But than even .05 kills per shot on a handheld weapons against expensive aircraft can have a lot of effect in a war. If you can maintain .9 or even .6 kills per shot, you make the range of your weapons in to a no fly zone, it won't take long before they won't even try. Tim