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A-10s over Kosovo (illustrations removed)The physical toll on the pilots was enormous: two hours to get to the KEZ followed by three hours of БЂњone-armed paper hangingБЂ«in the target area (including about an hour going to and from the tanker), finished by two hours of struggling to stay awake on the way home. If we flew two long sorties per day, our maintainers wouldnБЂ™t have enough time to fix any broken jets and still maintain aircraft ready for the CSAR alert. We were faced with limiting ourselves to one sortie per aircraft per day or accepting a continuous lowering of our mission-capable rate. Either choice would inevitably result in a reduction to one sortie per day. At the same time, the CAOC had asked us to increase our sortie rate and the already stretched 31st AEW at Aviano was told to expect another squadron or two of F-16CJs from Shaw AFB, South Carolina. It was time for us to go. On Monday, 5 April, anticipating that the Italians might say БЂњno,БЂ«I called the commander of the British GR-7 detachment at Gioia del Colle to ask whether there was sufficient parking space for 18 A-10s ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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