Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!att!cbnews!military From: adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: middle east forces Message-ID: <1990Aug29.014548.7715@cbnews.att.com> Date: 29 Aug 90 01:45:48 GMT References: <1990Aug24.034455.1686@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 25 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Adrian Hurt In article <1990Aug24.034455.1686@cbnews.att.com> edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass personal account) writes: >The 117s flew over. The Air Force made a point of supplying the media >with plenty of pictures, especially refuelling opertions. Very kind of them too, as I had just bought a model of the aircraft! :-) >The AWACS, I could be wrong, are owned by the Saudis, but can only >be operated by U.S. personnel. That is, only Americans are allowed >to run the things due to the sophiscated equipment. The one that >is stationed at Nellis is supposed to have left recently, but >haven't had a chance to check. There is definitiely at least one U.S. E-3 Sentry AWACS plane there because it was on our news last night. The journalists were allowed to go with it on a patrol, complete with TV cameras, and we were able to see the radar screen as a couple of Iraqi fighters were being tracked. "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: adrian@uk.ac.hw.cs UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk