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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yasotay" data-source="post: 58359" data-attributes="member: 291">An interesting point.  Also by the time you buy and field them there may be no reason to have a manned attack platform.Still for the Army, reliance on airports is not a popular idea as they are very easy targets.  Also one of the benefits of VTOL is that you can put a rearm and refuel position well forward at forward operating bases, so if the attack aircraft has to rearm or refuel it does not have to go all the way back to the airfield to do so.</blockquote>

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