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To: Rokke
the Marine Corps (who is the service that knows THE most about CAS) is phasing out its AV-8B's

Again, you're full of crap.

80 posted on 09/15/2004 9:56:07 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham
"Again, you're full of crap"

Um hmm. Are you really denying the USMC has no plan in place to phase out the AV-8B?

And by the way, your pictures were taken just a couple months ago. And they show each aircraft carrying exactly one bomb under one wing, and a Litening II targeting pod under the other. Of course, since AV-8B's didn't start carrying the Litening Pod until 2003, they could only drop dumb bombs when OEF initiated. And since we didn't have any bases at Kandahar during the first few months of the war and Harriers were forced to operate from ships, Criminal Number 18F was exactly right in his assessment. However, AV-8B's are doing great now that they can operate from bases close to the frontlines. But they are still relatively limited in payload.

81 posted on 09/15/2004 10:25:37 PM PDT by Rokke
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