And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Night, IFR, Low Level in mountainous terrain well before GPS and sophisticated datalink positioning. And then you came back to land on a carrier in the dark. The A-6 had one of the most challenging mission profiles imaginable.
The Navy pulled the A-6 out of service before it had a successor. The F-18 has filled that roll, but it can't carry the payload in the same mission profile as the A-6
Night, IFR, Low Level in mountainous terrain well before GPS and sophisticated datalink positioning. And then you came back to land on a carrier in the dark. The A-6 had one of the most challenging mission profiles imaginable.
ReplyDeleteThe Navy pulled the A-6 out of service before it had a successor. The F-18 has filled that roll, but it can't carry the payload in the same mission profile as the A-6
DeleteLL need a blog of his own.
ReplyDeleteSay, LL. do you recall off hand what percentage of maximum allowable gross weight of the A-6 was allowed for ordnance???
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