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From: jln@portia.Stanford.EDU (Jared Nedzel)
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Subject: Re: Sparrows
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Date: 5 Dec 89 03:55:04 GMT
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From: jln@portia.Stanford.EDU (Jared Nedzel)

In article <11920@cbnews.ATT.COM} nelson_p@apollo.com writes:

}From: nelson_p@apollo.com
}

}    A recent Raytheon ad in AW&ST for their Sparrow
}    radar-guided anti-aircraft missile touts it as 
}    "combat proven".    When was it successfully used
}    in combat?   I seem to recall that Sparrows were 
}    used in the most recent encounter with Libya but
}    that they missed and Sidewinders made the kills.
}
}    Was there another incident or is that what they
}    are referring to?
}
}                                        ---Peter


The Sparrow missile has been around for quite a while. It was used
in Viet Nam, in the '73 Arab-Israeli war, in the '82 battle of Bekaa (sp?)
Valley battle between Israel and Syria, and probably in several other
wars/battles that I've overlooked.

As to just what the ad was referring to, I think you'll have to call
Raytheon :-)

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Jared L. Nedzel
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