From:	Walter Scheper Ratlaw@*******.com
Subject:	Starting equiptment [was: Value and so on]
Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:18:14 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:07:20 +0100, "Paul J. Adam"
<Paul@********.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <9e30ba5.24c6242e@***.com>, Starrngr@***.com writes
>True to a point, but the F-16s in particular spent a _lot_ of time
>tankhunting. They started out with two TERs of Mark 82s each, but
>switched to a pair of Mark 84s each: the F-16 could deliver bombs to "near
>as damn it hit" with CCIP dive attacks, the 2000lb bombs provided clearer
>damage assessment, and good targets were sparse enough that the Vipers
>had problems finding _one_ target per sortie, let alone three. (Let's
>discreetly forget about the GPU-2A)
Not being in any of the military branches and following all this
through books; I was under the impression that the A-10 was the
primary tank killing aircraft, why use F-16's?

Ratlaw
Walter Scheper
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