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Old October 23rd 03, 08:44 PM
Harry Andreas
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In article , Chad Irby
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In article ,
ess (phil hunt) wrote:

Er, my whole point was that the A-10 isn't particularly good at
shooting down other auircraft. (But IIRC an A-10 once shot down a
helicopter).


On the other hand, in some exercises a couple of decades back, A-10s did
very well versus F-15s as long as they kept things down near the ground.
Hiding in the weeds kept the long-range missiles out of the equation,
and once they got into gun range, they broke even.


I wouldn't try that with the more modern radars currently on the F-15.
Fast mort.

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