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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
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Subject: Re:  A-10 Thunderbolt -- Who /really/ flys them?
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Date: 14 Oct 89 01:56:13 GMT
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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)

In article <10174@cbnews.ATT.COM> cperlebe@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (Chris Perleberg) writes:
>If you keep slinging $500,000 Maverick missiles to knock out
>$300,000 tanks (or worse, $30,000 trucks), you're losing the war.

Clearly this is not true (although I appreciate the general sense
of the comment).  If I have ten such missiles, and you have but one truck,
then the exchange might be entirely satisfactory to me.

The interesting part of this question is how to know when more such
exchanges will be required than one is able to support.
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)