Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: lhb6v@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Laura Hayes Burchard) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: British ALARM Message-ID: <1991Feb12.013117.7246@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 01:31:17 GMT References: <1991Feb8.012201.15108@cbnews.att.com> <1991Feb9.025326.29449@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 20 Approved: military@att.att.com From: lhb6v@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Laura Hayes Burchard) In article <1991Feb9.025326.29449@cbnews.att.com> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >Alarm exists and is reportedly in use in the Gulf. It has no numeric >designation that I'm aware of; the British military is not as obsessed >with numbers as the US is, and tends to give things names instead. Our friend Group Captain Irving mentioned at his Sunday briefing that it had just gotten its first use. It was used in parachute mode; unfortunately, no radars were on at the time, so it never went off. Sometimes the Iraqis just won't cooperate with combat testing... -- Laura Burchard lhb6v@virginia.edu lhb6v@virginia.bitnet #inc The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side is ready to face danger than accept an immediate loss. --Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War