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From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
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Subject: Re: Another Harpoon Question
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Date: 29 Jan 91 01:54:35 GMT
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In <160@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes:

>               Are Bucanneers really very large aircraft?  These things
>used to fly off of carriers...

     With whopping great catapults, which land airbases typically don't have.

     These planes are about the size of an A-5, or a supersonic A-3, large
American aircraft of similar vintage that are no longer in service as attack
aircraft.