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To: Stoat

Make a nice ASW platform.


34 posted on 02/01/2008 6:29:28 PM PST by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: central_va
Make a nice ASW platform.

No more flying in circles over the target, and a spectacular payload ability coupled with minimal runway needs  :-)

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37 posted on 02/01/2008 6:37:37 PM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: central_va
Make a nice ASW platform.

They had a lot of Blimps in WWII which were used for exactly this. They were demobbed after the war, naturally.

47 posted on 02/01/2008 7:11:51 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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