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Redux: are there any high-flying aircraft for heavy AA to engage?


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Hmm, maybe we could shoot the white ampulomet at it.

Actually, I had that same class in the Army. And while the instructor was seemingly as serious as a heartattack, we were all laughing our butts off.

Oh right on Sarge, yeah lemme see here, I just aim this lil M-16 at that there MiG-21 which (a), is traveling faster than the speed of sound and nearly as fast as the round I'm firing at it and (B), probably has more armaments onboard than a WWII battleship...sure sure. That's just want I want to do today. Piss off some Soviet pilot who inturn decides to incinerate everything within a half mile radius of my position.

The collective consensus of my unit was, no thanks. Better I just stay here in me foxhole real nice and quiet like.

The moral of the story being ofcourse, there is often a vast difference in what military doctrine and training manuals state should happen, and what actually does happen when the time comes for a reality check.

[ December 19, 2002, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Bruno Weiss ]

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