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From: lafford@serum.Kodak.COM (Rick Lafford)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: F-16 CAS in the Gulf war
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.032918.3064@amd.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 21:13:46 GMT
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From: lafford@serum.Kodak.COM (Rick Lafford)

After a fairly glowing article in AvWeek about the capabilities of
the F-16 used in the CAS mission, I received the following 
first hand info on the performance of the GE 30mm gun pod that
the Syracuse Boys (37thTAC) used. Word has it that it fell out of
favor after the first few missions as the low altitudes required
and proximity to target brought too much attention (read small arms
fire) to the attacker.  The F-16's switched to more conventional
bombs and stand-off weapons and were more effective while incurring
no casualities.

Rick Lafford	Eastman Kodak Co.
Reply-To lafford@serum.Kodak.Com

My views represent nobody but little old me and not much of that.