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From: John Ramsden (jramsden@enh.Prime.Com)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Tank busting munition.
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.224821.25366@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 22:48:21 GMT
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From:     John Ramsden (jramsden@enh.Prime.Com)

Seeing recent footage of the use and effects of cluster  bombs  I  was
reminded  of  something vaguely similar shown a couple of years ago on
TV in the UK.

It was a device which descended by parachute over an  area  supposedly
containing  tanks,  and  as  it  approached  the ground it would start
drifting sideways and precessing at the same  time,  like  a  gyrating
sycamore  seed. This motion maximized the coverage of a camera or some
sort of ground-scanning detector on the underside of the device.

As soon as the characteristic shape of  a  tank  hove  into  view  the
device  would launch a missile of some description aimed at the turret
which, according to the documentary, was a weak spot.

Anyway, I was wondering what this contraption was called,  whether  it
was still (if ever) in use, and whether it was used in the Gulf.

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P.S. If possible could respondents copy me [as well as posting] since
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