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Sherman A1

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2. I believe it would have to improve by several magnitudes to reach the level

Reply to leveymg (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 16, 2013, 09:27 AM

Mar 2013

of obsolete aircraft.

It's unnecessary junk and vastly overpriced unnecessary junk at that or perhaps better described as welfare for the military industrial complex.

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23 years from contract to delivery - would be like going into WW2 with a plane designed in 1918. leveymg Mar 2013 #1

I believe it would have to improve by several magnitudes to reach the level Sherman A1 Mar 2013 #2

I think they made some performance promises they couldn't keep. Big-time contract fraud. leveymg Mar 2013 #3