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To: beethovenfan
Quite frankly, I think that the P-51 would still be an excellent weapon for an awful lot of these brushfire wars that keep springing up. I'm thinking Afghanistan, pretty much anything in Africa, and so on.

Cheap to produce and maintain, plenty of range, adequate performance, support for rough fields, wide range of armament, and so on.

But, I'm a simple man.

25 posted on 07/15/2014 1:47:48 PM PDT by wbill
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To: wbill

Th P-51 would not last very long in todays environment as an attack aircraft.

The A-10 is the minimum level of performance for an attack plane these days for low intensity , asymmetric conflicts.


31 posted on 07/15/2014 2:07:48 PM PDT by rdcbn
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