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In article Mt_Yf.20704$dU3.522@trnddc01, "Jason H"
wrote:

sidewinder would take out an engine, and the AMRAAM maybe a wing section,
but you better goddamn believe a phoenix would make that airliner not fly in
a big hurry. It's an aerial torpedo... an airpedo! Seriously, doesn't it
have like a 150lb warhead? Plus the 90 miles worth of unused fuel? and the
radar would home straight in on the fuselage and just obliterate it.
Especially if you had, say, four or six of them heading toward the liner. Or
8 to 12 since they (tomcats) travel in pairs. And, I'd be a heluva lot more
scared of two tomcats off the cockpit than I would be of two hornets. They
just don't look mean.

Jason

can you imagine seeing 12 phoenixes streaking toward you?

You seem a little enthusiastic about shooting down airliners filled with
civilians.




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