EA-18G "Growler"Woody,

Rockets are fun, I agree, but why burden Medium Attack (which had better things to do with its system) with a day-VMC mission when the SLUFs and the Bugs could do it as well / better?

BTW, I have four evil Commie bus hulks on the B-17 range complex at Fallon to my credit, denied to the enemy by FFAR strikes.

--
Mike Kanze

"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."

- Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"


"Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal" wrote in message ...
Whoa there, Mike... I'll agree with you that the gun was a bad idea, but the rockets worked just fine.

I shot a bunch on a MAARP det in fall 1991... somewhere in the vicinity of 5 sorties firing Zunis and 2.75 in every mode we could think of except General Loft-that seemed like a bad idea. Even handed them off to the B/N in the chute for one hop.

The jet was good at it and we got great hits.

--Woody

On 11/11/05 1:44 PM, in article , "Mike Kanze" wrote:


John,

Yet another illustration of the point that, just because you can do it, it doesn't mean that it was a good idea to begin with.

Like hanging A/G rockets and gun pods on A-6s, among other follies.