To: buccaneer81
Vipers as search planes? They've got to be kidding. What a desperate bunch of numb-nuts running the show.
Vipers? THe F-16's nickname is the Falcom - at least in the USAF. The F-16 can be equipped with infra red equipment that may bring fruit.
21 posted on
07/02/2005 7:32:34 PM PDT by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: tang-soo
The F-16s name is indeed the Falcon, but its pilots prefer to call it the Viper. Kind of similar to how the A-10 Thunderbolt is called the Warthog, or how the B52 Stratofortress is called the B-U-F-F.
31 posted on
07/02/2005 7:36:49 PM PDT by
spetznaz
(Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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