Gunner Asch wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 13:14:45 -0500, Richard
wrote:

On 8/24/2014 11:46 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:40:47 -0500,
wrote:

On 8/24/2014 1:53 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:25:08 -0500,
wrote:

On 8/23/2014 9:48 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
On 8/23/2014 5:19 PM, jon_banquer wrote:
On Friday, August 22, 2014 5:59:32 PM UTC-7, Rex wrote:
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 10:04:00 PM UTC-5, jon_banquer wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73IyO1Qdqo



Cool. Loves me some Warthog


It's a national treasure. The Air Force wants to kill it:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the...-bu-1562789528


This airframe should be kept. I'd say a wing of them for special ops.
They are special and maybe 30 kept with the 270 or so kept for parts.
Keep troops trained as pilots and ground advisers if needed.

Simply cost effective. If a central American country goes wacko or some
people within do it might be just the trick. A billion dollar machine
that flies to fast and can't turn or hide isn't needed.

Seems like they, the DOD, thinks we can fight a war sitting on our sofa
waiting for updates.

Martin


Personally, I think the entire fleet should be transferred to the Army.
They LOVE that ugly thing.
At least the guys on the ground do.

Air Force still seems to want billion dollar super jets.

Their heyday was before the proliferation of MANPADS.


Yeah. But how do we provide air support for mud crawlers?

Based on what we've just been doing in Iraq, it looks like we're
optining for surveilance drones, spotters on the ground, and smart
bombs from 40,000 feet.

If it were me, I'd built a huge fleet of decoy "drones" that look real
but which are nothing more than big model airplanes. Let the ISIS
fighters shoot their limited supply of MANPADS at them.

I've read that they have American-made MANPADS, but they're probably
not the latest stuff. Still, at 10,000 feet, they can raise hell.


You know we gave the Afgans Stingers way back when they were fighting
the Russians. Looks like they learned the leson very well.

And the big model decoy idea is inspired.
I can write up a grant proposal for it, if you like.
Get a few million for development money?


Lots and lots of aluminized mylar following edges to beef up the
return size..make em look like real aircraft.


I found another site with military manuals online:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Amilitary-manuals&sort=-publicdate&page=1


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