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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: F-15  (was Re: Beretta 92F vs. M1911A1)
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Date: 12 Jan 90 04:47:25 GMT
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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
In article <13045@cbnews.ATT.COM> you write:
>(Since we're supposed to be technological here, I suppose I should
>justify insulting the F-15E... :-)  The F-15, designed as a bastard
>cross between an air-superiority fighter and a high-altitude interceptor,
>has much too much wing to make a good low-level bomber.  Whereas the
>Tornado was designed for it and does it very well.)

That the F-15 doesn't make a good ground-attack aircraft isn't
suprising; regardless of what the Air Farce has had done to the plane
since its inception, the original design philosophy that was used was
"Not a pound for air-to-ground" -- it was designed to be a fighter,
not the bastard fighter/tactical bomber mix that most of the other 'F'
series aircraft have been.


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