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Yes, it sounds like its basically the -10 for the aircraft, correct?
Pilots must abide by the placards/warnings in the cockpit.
Ok, sounds like all the warnings inside Army vehicles with the "Crew required to wear double hearing protection during operation" Ill give you three guesses as to how often that happens.
Fact is that many times the manuals are rewritten based on what the troops in the field have invented in order to accomplish the mission at hand, and that many times the official manuals and their additions simply cant keep up with the operational realities of the equipment.

Now what we have here is a "They are supposed to operate this way".
That's all well and good, but anyone who has had their ass in the grass knows that isn't the way things happen much of the time. Mission needs trump the manuals objections.

If they had it available, at all, they would have used it. If it needed to be refit for use then crews would have been dispatched to make it happen in the field.
That's how it is now, and I have to assume that the realities of combat haven't changed.
What you have there in bold print has absolutely nothing to do with how those aircraft operated in combat. It was written 20 years before the aircraft in question even flew.

So can you post anything substantive, relating to the aircraft/time in question?
I understand that you are away from home?