Murphy's Law: June 4, 2003

Archives

While the United States Air Forces A-10 ground attack aircraft received high marks for its performance in Iraq, it's also being used for homeland defense. It was noted last year that terrorists might buy or rent one or two engine propeller driven aircraft for suicide attacks. These aircraft are so slow that the usual air defense aircraft, like the F-16, would not be able to slow down enough to check out suspicious aircraft. The A-10, however, is slow enough,  and many are kept fueled and armed at all times for interception of suspicious, slow moving, and low flying aircraft. 

 

X

ad

Help Keep Us From Drying Up

We need your help! Our subscription base has slowly been dwindling.

Each month we count on your contributions. You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
  2. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  3. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close