And goalies are a special breed.
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Anyway, I asked this in pophistory to no avail but I'm pretty sure we've talked about this series here and we have a high concentration of planefags. An actual good Australian military historian has been covering the
Falklands War in depth. Highly recommend. But one of the things that keeps coming up is that while striking the Royal Navy, the Argentine AF had to make border line mast height bombing runs. Under the minimum arming altitude of their 1000 pounders, so a ton of great flying got negated by their hits being reduced to dropping a big rock on the ship. This went on for multiple days and sorties but they kept doing it and losing pilots on the return. They had to know what was happening. Was there not a way to fit a time fuze or disarm the safety on a Mk.83? The Argentine Navy had more bang for the buck because their strikes were with 500 lb Mk.82s fitted with the Snakeeye retardation kit. Could they not grab the Mk.82s from the Navy after they were proven to actually detonate? Both were flying A-4s,
just different variants.
plane scientists please respond