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- From: rocky.rawlins@the-matrix.com (Rocky Rawlins)
- Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
- Subject: RE: AMERICAN KILL...
- Message-ID: <1459.417.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 05:49:00 GMT
- Reply-To: rocky.rawlins@the-matrix.com (Rocky Rawlins)
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
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- -> Yes, it was a MIG Su-27 Foxbat equipped with twelve SS-20
- -> air-to-air missiles. The Iraqi aircraft was shot down by a Navy F-16
- -> possibly flown from the USS Kitty Hawk, which fired an AMRAAM
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- So, the Navy has converted to F-16s eh. Must have been a blast trying to
- teach those young hotshot Air Force pukes to land their Falcons on a
- carrier deck. Especially without a naval type tail hook. <grin>
- Rocky
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