RE: [DS2] VTOLs, Confidence and other questions

At 6:51 PM -0700 8/6/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>On the other hand, a buddy of mine told me 20mm and up
>works just fine.  :)  Or that was the gist of his
>description of watching an AC-130 work over some hills
>in Aghanistan.

Was he talking about the 20mm coming down or going up (there is a 
diff ya know)? 20mm in WWII was very much a close in thing, usually 
only effective in the last mile or so of the aircraft's run into the 
target.
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