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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: Iraqi AWACS ?
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Date: 5 Feb 91 03:45:29 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

> From: newman@frith.egr.msu.edu (Timothy S Newman)
> 
> Some reports about the planes fleeing Iraq have mentioned that AWACS
> planes are included in those which have landed in Iran.  Anyone
> know how, when, and why Iraq got AWACS?  

  I don't believe Iraq has any Boeing E3 AWACS.  Currently only the U.S.,
  NATO, and Saudi Arabia have any E3 AWACS.  Britain and France will soon
  start getting theirs.

  I also don't think they have any E2C Hawkeye's (Navy's mini-AWACS) nor
  any Soviet Tupolev "Moss" (Soviet's AWACS).  So, I don't know what
  they are talking about.
 
> Also, what can an AWACS do on the ground; I understand it has
> some capability while on the ground.

  The only think AWACS can do on the ground is take up space.  For all the
  electronics on board (especially the radar) to work properly - it must be
  super-cooled - and the super-cooling only is only initiated at a certain
  minimum altitude and speed. 



  mike schmitt