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Old 16th Nov 2013, 20:01
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Ascend Charlie
 
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Best example I saw of the F-111 Mud Movers was a live firing demo at Holsworthy in the 70s, with a pair of Aardvarks dropping HE onto the side of a hill some distance away. The roar of the machinery coming from right rear, the multiple flashes on the ground, followed quickly by that gut-shaking KRRUMPP was a real hoot.

Then the RAAF Hueys fired mini guns and HE rockets, and then the army ruined the show by firing the gun on a tank, it ricocheted and landed in some trees many km away and started a bushfire. The show stopped while the boys headed off to put out the fire.
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