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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Carriers in the Gulf: Risky?
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.034748.3049@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 03:47:48 GMT
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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
In article <1991Jan21.035104.3475@cbnews.att.com>, martens@cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) writes:

>Doesn't Iraq have Silkworms?  Certainly Iran does, but it seems I read
>that Iraq does as well.  Their range is supposed to be on the order of
>100 miles.  Also, how vulnerable are carriers to an (unlikely, I hope)
>Iranian missile launch as they pass through the Strait of Hormuz?  No
>carrier in the gulf is ever very far from Iran.

An "understanding" was reached between the Iranians and the U.S. before any
carriers moved into the Gulf. They will be removed post-haste once the...
Kuwaiti Liberation War is over. 

				Doug


 Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park
			*  Ray Kaplan was right *