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From: ric@Think.COM (Rick Wheeler)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Palestinian Terrorist Organizations Have Nonconventional Weaponry
Keywords: hang glider attack
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.021214.1907@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 02:12:14 GMT
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From: ric@Think.COM (Rick Wheeler)

In article <1990Jun26.024941.15277@cbnews.att.com> phipps@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Geoff Phipps) writes:
>From: phipps@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Geoff Phipps)
>In article <1990Jun22.043337.28362@cbnews.att.com> F2E010%BARILVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Don Goldenfarb) writes:
>>
>>In late 1987, a member of a Palestinian group flew a hang-glider over the
>>Israeli border and manged to enter an IDF base.  I think he may have
>>killed 5 soldiers.

>Didn't that attack involve an ultra-light?  A hang glider is
>unpowered and has no control surfaces. An ultralight has a motor and
>control surfaces.

	By the above definition, the attack was carried out by an
"ultra-light" which was basically a hang glider with the addittion of a
small engine.  I believe that there was at least one other craft used that
night which did not manage to cross the Israeli border.  The successful
attacker's craft was detected as it crossed the border by its engine noise
and the entire Northern front was in a state of readiness at the time of
the incident, with the exception of the base that was actually hit.

	Having recently finished my mandatory service with the Israeli
army,  I can assure you that the incident is thought of as the prime
example of a military unit doing all of the wrong things after receiving
warning of a penetration.  

			Rick Wheeler
			Thinking Machines Corporation