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From: brndlfly@athena.mit.edu (Matthew T Velazquez)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: A-10 Kill
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Date: 11 Feb 91 04:30:22 GMT
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From: brndlfly@athena.mit.edu (Matthew T Velazquez)
	The A-10 kill mentioned earlier was an almost-accidental interception
of a helicopter at low level. The pilot spotted something moving on or close
to the ground, noticed that it wasn't leaving any dust, and decided it was a
chopper. He went after it, firing two bursts from his GAU-8 20mm cannon. The
first missed. The second blew the thing into so many pieces that when he over-
flew the wreckage he couldn't identify it. Nice, huh?

				T Velazquez
				MIT Aero/Astro
				brndlfly@athena.mit.edu