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To: elcid1970

Yes it is easy for a prop plane doing 500 plus mph to outrun our bi-wing Sopwith Camel planes as the Sopwith can barely make 200 mph. Oh wait, they were retired after WW I.

Against the F-16/15/22s whose top speeds vary from Mach 2 to Mach 3... well you can see something unpleasant might befall the Bears ... stand off weapons (missiles) make speed moot in any case - the Bears are gone long before visual range is acquired.


15 posted on 01/22/2016 6:21:48 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

So then, the only factor that currently makes the Tu-95 a threat to American airspace is that feckless incompetent weasel in the Oval Office?

BTW, I didn’t know a Sopwith Camel could even reach 200 mph. Not with that madly spinning Gnome rotary under the cowling.


16 posted on 01/22/2016 7:11:16 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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