Why are gliders not used anymore in military operation?

Upvote:4

Large gliders became obsolete. They were easy to detect once radars had become smaller and more common than they were during WWII. Their ability to evade radar-controlled anti-aircraft fire would have been very limited, and surface-to-air missiles would slaughter them.

Helicopters were much more versatile, could fly significant distances very low to avoid radar, and could extract troops as well as insert them. They were more useful all round, so they replaced specialist glider units.

The remaining advantage of gliders is quietness. Some special operations forces may train with hang-gliders for quiet small-scale insertions, but such operations tend not to be publicised.

John Dallman 31010

📝 Why did some regions end their prehistory much before others?
📝 How was silver/gold mining done in colonial Americas?
📝 Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored?
📝 What language(s) were spoken within the Holy Roman Empire?
📝 Is the Krishna (a god within Hinduism), an appropriated historical figure?
📝 What are the Josephus Greek Epistles?
📝 Were communists opposed to Jews in France?
📝 Have breasts been proudly and publicly uncovered, in any culture, without general disapproval?
📝 What was the Nature of Resistance in 1938 Czechoslovakia?
📝 What did Mesopotamian beehives look like?
📝 Why didn't Japan adopt western utensils?
📝 Why did the Ottomans not change their capital to an Arab city?
📝 Did the avenue of the Gods exist?
📝 How much knowledge of the past was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
📝 Was John Cabot the first European to reach Newfoundland since (arguably) the Vikings?
📝 How did Henry Knox retrieve the cannons that fell into the river?
📝 What where historic influences on US unemployment rate from 1949 to 2014?
📝 How was Washington and Jefferson's relationship in Dec 1799?
📝 Was the west bank of the Nile farmed in Ancient Egypt?
📝 Did French people in 19th century not bathe every day?
📝 Where does Lincoln say the South wants us to believe as they believe?
📝 Did Roman military require uniform weapons?
📝 Were any French aristocrats guillotined facing up?
📝 Does the long dense habitation and cultivation of lands correlate with a high incidence of tetanus and gangrene in badly disinfected wounds?
📝 Did Continental Army officers wear wigs or keep their hair white like their British Army counterparts?
📝 During WW2, how dependent on Swedish Ball Bearings was Britain?
📝 What is the difference between archeology and defacing a tomb?
📝 Why did John Ganson vote contradictorily on the 13th Amendment?
📝 Why are there no dogs pictured in paleolithic cave paintings?
📝 When was the last moment that Dutch, German and Swiss German were the same language?

Source: stackoverflow.com

Travel Tips

Search Posts

📝 Why are gliders not used anymore in military operation?
📝 Why are military uniforms often flared or poofy above the knee?
📝 Why are the French and Indian Wars / Seven Years' War not considered WW 1?
📝 Why was language not used to establish dominance throughout England 1066 AD–1360s CE?
📝 Why are most of the world's oldest buildings in Europe and not in the Fertile Crescent?
📝 Why are the historical large cities in the southern US not the large cities in the South today?
📝 Why are the Rohingya not recognized in Myanmar (Burma), amongst the other 135 ethnic groups?
📝 Why is the nuclear powered USS Nautilus (SSN-571) a museum, when nuclear aircraft carriers are not converted to museums?
📝 Why did the German Military and Police not intervene during the years of NSDAP ascend?
📝 Are there contemporary records of why flappers used cosmetics to create thin, upturned eyebrows?
📝 Why are Mary I, Mary II and Anne not as famous as Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II?
📝 Why were air rifles not used more in combat?
📝 Why was the German system of interlocking plates not used after WWII for armored vehicle construction?
📝 Why did the Chinese not use military power to force out early Portuguese, Dutch and English trade encroachments?
📝 Why are there laws that are used to limit how long a house can be in a family?
📝 Why China government used military and tanks against students on Tienanmen Square in 64 incident?
📝 Why is the term "Ancestral Puebloans" used and not simply "Puebloans"?
📝 Why are pre-Harappan strata grouped together with Early Harappan strata? Does this not obfuscate the development of the civilization?
📝 Why did Mussolini say that people are not really free if they don't have access to the ocean?
📝 Why are Illyrian and Thracian cultures not studied as thoroughly as other balkans people?
📝 Why the M24 Chaffee was not used as a tank at Dien Bien Phu?
📝 Why are Turkish people and other Turkik people considered of Mongolic race if their language is not in the Mongolic language family?
📝 Why are major streets in urban regions not build tunnel like?
📝 why Israel has not used its nuclear arsenal against hamas?
📝 Why bother attacking castles at all? Why not go around?
📝 Why are Germans referred to so differently in different languages?
📝 Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
📝 Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
📝 Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?
📝 Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?

Why are gliders not used anymore in military operation?

More post

Search Posts

Related post