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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: epsteinbd who wrote (6483)10/7/2001 8:24:01 PM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (2) of 27666
 
Do you believe some are already around Afghanistan ?

Missed that question, sorry.

It's an old machine, it probably is there or will be. It's an Anti-Tank plane. Close Support for ground troops. We could not possibly have a lot, because we only made just about 220 of 'em and some were lost in Desert Storm. But it's a great troop support airplane.

You take an F-16, it strafes. It starts in.....I don't know where you live, let us say you live in New Jersey here. You strafe in Newark and you turn around. By the time you turn around you are in the Long Island Sound off Connecticut.

On the other hand, you are in an A-10. You strafe at the tee of a long par five and you turn around after the green.

Now that's a Ground Support Aircraft. Of course, you need a TomCat or a Nighthawk or a F-16 to cover you but your infantry is happy as hell.
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