To: Blood of Tyrants
A "heavily armored" jet? The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt.
Mmmmmm....whata plane!
65 posted on
03/09/2004 3:34:36 PM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; JasonC; BadAndy
Only the cockpit of the A-10 is armored.
68 posted on
03/09/2004 3:40:33 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts; JasonC; BadAndy
P.S. But still a mighty fine plane. Too bad the AF won't transfer it to the Army. The AF only wants expensive, sexy, high-tech multi gazillion dollar geewhiz stealth gizmos for their primadonna pilots and tries to scrap the old ugly A-10 at every opportunity despite the fact that it has proven outstanding at what it was designed to do. This is because the AF thinks that close air ground support is beneath them, I guess.
69 posted on
03/09/2004 3:44:19 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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