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Old 8th Jan 2007, 16:37
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Originally Posted by TorqueOfTheDevil
Surely, given how much trade the GR fleets have had in the last 16 years, compared to how little the AD boys have done, it would make more sense to buy a posh new GR aircraft, rather than procure a supposedly world-beating AD aircraft and then try to hang bombs off it? Or am I just being a rotary w**ker again?
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History would say otherwise. Some good fighter aircraft have been used in ground attack roles very effectively SE5A,Spitfire, Hurricane, Phantom etc; However, if you build a bomber and then try and turn it into a fighter then you get... ... well an F3!
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