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Old 11-05-17, 06:01 PM   #4
ETR3(SS)
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Originally Posted by XenonSurf View Post
As for planes, I remember vaguely that in Red Storm Rising I was making some crazy surfacings which would get some of my crew with equiped SA missiles shooting helicopters. I wonder if this reflects reality
If I had a nickel for every time someone brought up SAM's in relation to CW, I could retire tomorrow. There was experimentation done in the past but nothing made it to an operational phase. The idea just doesn't work.
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