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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Shoulder-Launched AA Missles
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Date: 6 Dec 89 02:48:48 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: Jared Nedzel <jln@Portia.stanford.edu>
>Man-portable missiles are just another threat that has to be dealt with.
>They are not the end of aircraft.

As witness a most amusing reconnaissance photo from the Falklands War:
looking almost sideways from a low-level Harrier, one sees a scattering
of Argentine soldiers... one of them struggling to get a Blowpipe missile
pointed at the Harrier!

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu