Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: mhr@compsci.aberystwyth.ac.uk Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re. Iraqi AWACS Message-ID: <1991Feb6.024836.17161@cbnews.att.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 02:48:36 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: military@att.att.com From: mhr@compsci.aberystwyth.ac.uk From what the BBC showed last week on the news in it's library footage of the Iraqi airforce, the planes that were being referred to were actually Soviet-built Mainstay airbourne warning aircraft. That's all I know I'm afraid. Mike. mhr@aber.cs (UK) \S Mike Richards \V M mhr@cs.aber.ac.uk (inet)\N Dept of Computer Science \O +44 A ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!mhr\A University College of Wales,\I 970 622435 I (uucp) \I Aberyswyth, Dyfed. \C L \L SY23 3BZ. UK \E