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From: styri@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Yu No Hoo)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Using up obsolete stocks
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Date: 1 Mar 91 05:28:11 GMT
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From: styri@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Yu No Hoo)

In article <1991Feb26.012713.7033@cbnews.att.com> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
>
>The list references to the Lance caused me to think about the opportunity
>the Gulf war is giving us to actually use up weaponry that would otherwise
>just be scrapped and surplussed. [...]

i guess the fact that Iraq had older weapons than the allied forces didn't
contribute to the result of the gulf war. ;->  (not to mention the effect
on morale such politics would have.)

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Haakon Styri
Dept. of Comp. Sci.              ARPA: styri@cs.hw.ac.uk
Heriot-Watt University          X-400: C=gb;PRMD=uk.ac;O=hw;OU=cs;S=styri
Edinburgh, Scotland