OOC 4 (Questions? Complaints? Ideas?)
In reply to Darkside Trooper (msg # 2):
Those old Su-24 "Fencers" were designed for low-level nuclear strike. Not a bad use for them if they can get them in the air! I am waiting for them (either side) to reactivate their long-retired MiG-27M "Flogger-Ds". They took a small single-engined varioable-geometry air-superiority fighter and converted it to ground-attack, mounting a 30mm gas-operated rotary autocannon (adapted from a naval CIWS as an imitation GAU-8 Avenger, but inferior). The recoil from this monster would shatter navigation and landing lights, crack the canopy, stun pilots, and in one case the instrument console detached and dropped into the pilot's lap.
Tony