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    Ed PEd P
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      Your weekly Flying Turkey Shoot, but this time concentrating on its dog-fighting and ground attack inability. ‘Inability’ as according to this Time report its gun cannot shoot straight, and like the plane its literally not all its cracked up to be.

      Pundits are trying to dismiss this saying it will not need a gun in a dogfight as it will use its missiles. That may well be true for third world opponents but not against any highly stealthed Russian and Chinese opponents.

      #40184
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        Haven’t we been here before with the whole F-4 Phantom debarcle with the yanks in Vietnam. No internal canon or gun system, mainly reliant on AIM-7 Sparrow missles, no wonder they couldn’t dog fight. (Great aeroplane for it’s time and imho one of the best looking Naval aircraft alongside the Sea Vixen).

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          El Reg reports that the Turkeys carried on HMS White Elephant are not even good enough for the Yanks!

          El Reg Report

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