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To: Yossarian

You could, but why bother -- it has a 1200 mile combat radius with a 4500 lb payload.


11 posted on 05/13/2005 6:30:28 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Blueflag
You could, but why bother -- it has a 1200 mile combat radius with a 4500 lb payload.

Here's a good reason: so you can sit off the east coast of China, and hit military targets in their west, without needing fly-over permission from any other countries.

(Yes, there's that little strip of Afganistan that reaches east and touches China, but they're a soviergn country now, and may not want to be sucked in to another superpower war....)

16 posted on 05/13/2005 10:34:18 PM PDT by Yossarian (Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
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