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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Computerized Counter Battery Artillery
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.012842.329@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:28:42 GMT
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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Why is it every time the Iraqi's light up their arty, we hear how the Harriers
  went in and shut them up with a few cluster bombs?  I thought our artillery
  batteries were equipped with a sophisticated system which detects incomming
  rounds, backward computes the launch locations, and then sends off the data
  to nearby guns which commence a counter-battery mission even before the
  enemy rounds hit the ground?  Why don't we hear about this system being 
  used?

Is it because the Iraqi's have yet to fire on something with this equipment?
  Do all our arty batteries have this system?  How long does it take for a 
  launched round to fall back to the ground?


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| Scott Silvey           | DOD Spokesman Pete Williams on Cruise Missiles:    |
| scott@xcf.berkeley.edu |   "We just don't discuss that capability.  I can't |
|                        | tell you why we don't discuss it because then I'd  |
| Flames to /dev/null    | be discussing it."                                 |
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