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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Army fixed-wing (Was: Rutan's Million Dollar Ground Attack Plane)
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.025640.28195@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 02:56:40 GMT
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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

> From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
> In article <1990Aug17.023750.1538@cbnews.att.com> betz@marob.masa.com (Tom Betz) writes:
> [regarding the Rutan mudfighter]
> >The Army can't use it because the divorce decree between the
> >Army and Air Force requires it not to fly any fixed-wing
> >aircraft.  
> What about the OV-1 Mohawks?  Aren't they set up for some kind of limited
> COIN mission?  Or are they strictly FAC aircraft?  How does the OV-1 compare
> with the OV-10 in mission and performance?

At an airshow at Moffet Field last year (or the year before), there was an
AC-130 on display.  According to the placards, it was flown by an Army special
operations group.  I don't think that it was attached to the Army from the AF.

Maybe the fixed-wing situation with the Army is a bit more complicated than
"you don't get any".  Maybe they're limited to props-only.

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