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Old September 18th 03, 09:11 PM
Chad Irby
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In article ,
(phil hunt) wrote:

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:25:39 -0400, Paul Austin
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"phil hunt" wrote
Best to use UAVs for bombing.


That's highly unlikely in the short to medium term.


It's happening already. What do you think cruise missiles are? Or
fire-and-forget AT missiles like Brimstone?


Really useful against targets with known positions, and pretty useless
when you're out hunting for others? And completely bloody useless if
the other side has actual fighter planes in the air and you don't?

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