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From: wyle@lavi.inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: RATO and JATO
Summary: Swiss planes use RATO daily
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Date: 18 Aug 89 04:24:25 GMT
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From: wyle@lavi.inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)

>From: mmm@cup.portal.com
>I'm wondering whether RATO or JATO was purely experimental, or whether it
>was ever a deployed system?  Are any RATO or JATO system currently in use
>or under experimentation?

Swiss Mirage interceptors use RATO every time they take off (daily).


-Mitchell F. Wyle
Institut fuer Informationssysteme         wyle@inf.ethz.ch 
ETH Zentrum / 8092 Zurich, Switzerland    +41 1 256 5237