From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] << Peter Kokalis related a particularly gruesome account of the use of the Vulcan in his review of Dillon's minigun improvements in SOF, >> Er, Jonathan S was referring to the Avro Vulcan bomber, Steve, not the multi-barrel cannon... I too understood that the Vulcan raid on Port Stanley was actually a failure in terms of airfield destruction, though it does seem to have been a propaganda victory, launched as it was from Ascension Island about 8000 miles away; standard bomb-aiming practice was to straddle the runway diagonally to maximise the hit probability and that was achieved, though even with 20-plus thousand pounders hitting the field, the Argentinians were not inconvenienced for long. Think I saw aerial photos some time ago - great navigation, great bomb-aiming. When I was a boy I was allowed to enter the cockpit of a Vulcan, and a Victor - very cramped for such big planes. BTW is SOF worth reading? I'd assumed it was a bit creepy, just fantasy blood 'n' guts stuff for wannabe Rambos, but perhaps there is more to it than that? I suppose you get it mail-order? Lastly, in reply to another post re. the Falklands, the ship in question was the Sheffield which wa destroyed by an Etendard-launched Exocet, and this story about its radar being turned off was widespread, though I don't know the truth of it. Anthony Harrison -- Sorry, endless confusion sets in when reading 200 email messages a day. I was thinking of the C130s with the miniguns mounted in them. Soldier of Fortune does have a lot of crap in it, frankly, but it's confined mostly to the editorial section. Some of the articles are very good. Like I said before the article on the raid in Sierra Leone was superb. Personally I think if they renamed it something like, oh, "Time" and put in a load of gibberish about how wonderful Gore is in the editorial pages it would have won more Pulitzers than Time, USN&WR, and Newsweek all put together. The stuff in there about East Timor, PNG, the Philippines and so on is just amazing to be frank, the reporters are mostly ex-soldiers who don't mind risking their necks to get the stories. A lot of them have been killed over the years. A lot of the reporters are also ex-CIA types as well who can actually construct a sentence unlike the empty headed journalists who believe everything they're fed in press briefings. There was a series of articles on Colombia recently which told me more about the situation there than anything else I'd ever read. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
