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2018-04-24 Iraq
Iraq's An-32 Cargo Planes Turned Bombers Flew Nearly Twice As Many Strikes As its F-16s
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Posted by 3dc 2018-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 Care to estimate the CEP of those strikes?
Posted by Maggie Chinemp2886 2018-04-24 06:21||   2018-04-24 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Somehow, I doubt that they're facing much of a fighter force in opposition, no?
Posted by AlanC 2018-04-24 07:15||   2018-04-24 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 How do the two airframes compare on flight hours to maintenance hours? I suspect transport planes rate better.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-04-24 08:31||   2018-04-24 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 How do the two airframes compare on flight hours to maintenance hours? I suspect transport planes rate better.

An-32? Sorry, You can have my seat. I'll hump the last 300 miles.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-24 09:23||   2018-04-24 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Definitely a cost efficient bomber.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-24 11:04||   2018-04-24 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Russian design, Afghan maintenance, what could go wrong?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-04-24 12:07||   2018-04-24 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Russian design, Afghan maintenance, what could go wrong?

Russian design = don't need much maintenance.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-24 14:25||   2018-04-24 14:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Tell that to MiG and Sukhoi.
Posted by Thor Untervehr3340 2018-04-24 20:43||   2018-04-24 20:43|| Front Page Top

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