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To: pissant
Holy crap. A direct hit from 24 nmi means that you've got an airplane with a lethality footpring of at least 50 nmi. From 50,000 feet and supersonic, probably means that you're invulnerable to most ground-based anti-aircraft fire, and inaccessible to the other guy's fighter aircraft (if he's got them to begin with).

It's a fighter, and a precision artillery platform.

97 posted on 06/13/2006 11:44:40 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
A direct hit from 24 nmi means that you've got an airplane with a lethality footpring of at least 50 nmi.

Well, after it turns around....or waits for about 65 seconds. At Mach 1.5, at sea level, it takes 5 minutes and 15 seconds to travel a hundred miles.

131 posted on 06/13/2006 1:54:52 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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