On 13/07/2020 20:10, bert wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
writes
On 12/07/2020 22:42, newshound wrote:
On 12/07/2020 21:58, Tim Streater wrote:


What do we have for ground attack these days? Compared to today,
thoseÂ* planes
were simple and cheap. It's all very well having £100M jets that can do
everything, but you can't afford very many of those, or the pilots
to fly
them. I keep thinking we need to have a cheap plane for today, that
weÂ* can
build lots of quickly, which could then be flown by people who can
beÂ* trained
relatively quickly.


Didn't we get a bit of a nasty shock from Pucaras in the Falklands,
evenÂ* though we had ground to air missiles.

Exocets.


What about them?

They were the surprise, not Pucaras, Pucaras were ****ing useless once
the fleet air arm arrived.


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