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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sand & Jet engine
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Date: 27 Jan 91 10:34:50 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: jae@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (Jae Hoon Lee)
>I saw from TV that the air filters for the M-1 tanks have to be cleaned
>everyday because of sand.  Then, in case of jet fighters, wouldn't there be
>problems/damages to the jet engine?  

Yes.  The Saudi air force's Tornados have special sand-resistant turbine
blades, and there was talk of doing a hasty retrofit of same to the RAF
Tornados deployed to the Gulf.  Don't know whether it was done.
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