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Old 25th Feb 2011, 05:14
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GreenKnight121
 
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Originally Posted by camelspyyder
It can't do the job.

A capacity of 59 sonobuoys might have been fine in 1974, but targets have got somewhat quieter since...I can certainly recall using near 200 during a six hour task in the last decade.

Unless we buy enough aircraft to swap every 2 hours on station

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And NO sonobuoys and NO hours on station are better how?

Isn't it better to have some capability than none whatsoever?
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