http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/air-force Moderately interesting article on the decline of the U.S. Air Force due to neglect brought on by at least 30 years of inferior competition. (“The last American soldier killed on the ground by an enemy air attack died in Korea, on April 15, 1953.”) Also has an intriguing (and regrettably small) image of an AIM-7 air-to-air missile just about to hit a Iraqi MIG-29 Fulcrum, extracted from the downed Fulcrum’s head-up display. 17:47
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