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30th Oct 2017, 15:02

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beardy

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the Phantom was still a handy strike/CAS aircraft

Not at that point in it's life. The capability to drop bombs had not been maintained and fell in to the far too difficult to reinstate bracket. It was thoroughly investigated at the time.

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