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Sherman A1

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5. Precisely

Reply to Bigmack (Reply #4)

Fri May 29, 2015, 07:25 PM

May 2015

It would make much more sense and be far less expensive to simply replace the current generation of aircraft with the same aircraft replacing worn out airframes with new production of proven (and paid for) designs.

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