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Old 3rd Mar 2011, 09:31
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TSR2Eagle
 
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Achimedes wrote;
(HHA have a dozen or so F58s, and the way things are going, may find themselves doing QRA as part of a PFI deal....)
Ah! Memories of that classic of all fighters low level through the glens of Scotland and the valleys of South Wales...

No need to spend millions on Close Air Support training and/or development, as with Typhoon, the Hunter FGA9 proved itself very quickly to be fit-for-purpose and ready to go at comparatively very short notice...
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