Newsgroups: sci.military Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!military From: convex!cash@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Cash) Subject: Re: Bundeswehr flying MIG-29 Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Date: Mon, 22 Oct 90 04:03:44 GMT Approved: military@att.att.com Message-ID: <1990Oct22.040344.18870@cbnews.att.com> References: <1990Oct17.010915.12950@cbnews.att.com> <1990Oct19.032427.12376@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Lines: 21 From: convex!cash@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Cash) In article <1990Oct19.032427.12376@cbnews.att.com> ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) writes: >From: Allan Bourdius >>last week we had in our local newspaper 'Die Rheinpfalz' a foto of a >>MIG-29 with Bundeswehr-signs. >Don't you mean the Luftwaffe? The Bundeswehr is the Army, not the Air Force. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, I don't think so. The Luftwaffe ignominiously shut down operations about 50 years ago.I'm not sure of the organizational details, but I believe that the Bundeswehr includes the present German air force. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Die Welt ist alles, was Zerfall ist. | Peter Cash | (apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein) |cash@convex.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~