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Old 3rd Jan 2018, 16:44
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Heathrow Harry
 
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maximum speed is no indicator of Combat survivability

The A7 Corsair was originally going to be supersonic IIRC but then looking at the numbers they realised that lower and slower was more survivable, more accurate and less costly
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