Re: another plane crash ...

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> On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:03:13 +0100, Brian Morrison
> <scrapspam@fenrir.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>I thought the advantage of ALARM was that you can fire it and then
>>leaving it hanging on its parachute until something excites it enough to
>>detach and rocket down on its target.
>
> But where is the excitement in that for a fighter jockey ;-)
> If everyone new how easy it was with "fire and forget" weapons they would
> take
> their toys off them and they would have to work for a living.
>
> Seriously though.  High speed low level flight has long been the RAF's
> specialty.  Remember how the Yanks were "stuffed" by a couple of aging
> Buccaneers flying lower than their precious AA systems could fire at Red
> Flag.
> David
>
S2 Buccaneers hold the sustained subsonic low altitude speed record
0.9 mach at under 500 feet

Steve Terry
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