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From: d9bertil@hacke14.dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: U.S. Ground Vulnerablity
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.042832.1907@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 04:28:32 GMT
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From: d9bertil@hacke14.dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)
In article <1990Sep12.014955.29266@cbnews.att.com>  writes:
>Everybody's doing top attack these days, actually, since it looks like a
>much more practical way to kill tanks.  The Norwegians already have an
>operational top-attack missile.  They didn't bother with f-and-f, though;
>I think their missile ("Bill" I believe it's called) is a beamrider.

  A little nitpick might be that the RBS56 BILL is a Swedish missile. (I can't
understand why everyone on sci.mil gives all credit to the Norvegians, first the
costal defence Hellfire and now the BILL :-)

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

-bertil-
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