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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Army and Fixed Wing
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Date: 2 Apr 91 20:56:39 GMT
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

>From: x35147d3@usma8.usma.edu
>As for the deal giving Army over 10,000 lb fixed wing rights.  An article
>was in ARMY TIMES in early November describing the Congressional statement and
>authorization.   They were to get OA-10s to replave OV-1s, but now it looks
>like the Air boys might hold on to the Warthogs.

Darn...

>I still think the AV-8B is the best for CAS.  

I doubt if there is such a thing as a "perfect" or "ultimate" tool for any
given job.  This doesn't mean, btw, that there might necessarily be a better
one available for a given job at a given time.  Sometimes you have to make
do with what you have.

>The Marines pioneered CAS, they know the planes for the job.  

The Marines also have some constraints that the Air Force (and Army,
for that matter) don't have.  In particular, having to face the
liklihood that they won't be able to count on having 10,000' runways to
operate from.

>Lest learn from them, the Germans did and built the Stuka...remember .

The which wasn't all that useful unless their side held air superiority.