On Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:30:47 PM UTC-4, Michael Terrell wrote:
Gunner Asch wrote:

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

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,

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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

Hush, who cares what you found. You high all the time stuck in a wheelchair 24/7.