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From: aws@itivax.iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: A-10 Thunderbolt
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Date: 23 Oct 89 23:08:37 GMT
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From: aws@itivax.iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)

In article <10404@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Um, what's a reasonable angle of attack for an A-10 coming in at treetop
>height to avoid hostile fire?  Virtually horizontal, I'd say... which
>means hitting the front armor unless the A-10 makes a detour to come in 
>from the side.

They can't come in virtually horizontal. They will do a popup maneuver
~1 mile from the target and another at the target. The first will be
for target acquisition and the second to attack the target. If you went
in horizontal, you wouldn't hit anything because you would never see
anything.

  Allen

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