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Old 31st Jan 2012, 13:39
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Originally Posted by Martin the Martian
Could the Phantom have been used against Stanley?
By 1982 the only air-to-ground that the RAF F4s could do was strafe. Also, it took about 9 hours to fly an F4 to Stanley from ASI (with at least 7 AAR brackets). I doubt the engines would have managed 18 hours there and back; most of the Speys would have run out of oil a long while before that.
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