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The US Strike Package System
US air raids into the upper route packages began the war as fairly small-scale affairs: simply bombers and fighter escorts. However, as the North Vietnamese defenses grew in extent and sophistication, the number of support aircraft needed to get the strike 'planes through to the target began to grow. By the end of Operation Rolling Thunder, the support-to-strike ratio was around 1:1. By Linebacker it was 3:1 or more and the strike aircraft themselves had become a small components in a large machine designed to deliver bombs on the target. With their emphasis on technology and teamwork, these 'strike packages' were a quintessentially American method of waging war.
Sauce: http:// www.airbattle.co.uk/d_combatants.html
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