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To: Rembrandt

There is a place for Prop driven planes on the battlefield but, only if they air is held by jets. Otherwise they are just targets.


8 posted on 01/21/2010 8:45:26 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“There is a place for Prop driven planes on the battlefield but, only if they air is held by jets. Otherwise they are just targets.”

Amen to that. High speed jets with lock on capability and missiles flying at 20K would decimate prop fighters at will.


24 posted on 01/21/2010 9:21:05 PM PST by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
There is a place for Prop driven planes on the battlefield but, only if they air is held by jets. Otherwise they are just targets.

A country could have air superiority in Afghanistan with Tucanos alone.

65 posted on 01/22/2010 7:11:44 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Osama Bin Laden doesnt have any jets.


71 posted on 01/24/2010 3:43:33 PM PST by Vanders9
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