"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"SKUNK WORKS" wrote in message
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military says that a U.S. Navy patrol plane
overshot the runway at an airfield in Afghanistan and was destroyed.

Why was a P-3 in a land-locked country?


Well it is a land based patrol a/c, and if you don't have an AWAC handy, the
P-3 can do moderately ok. Of course the sonarbouys can be used and downward
firing projectiles if insurgents are found............bg


Bruce