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From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Copperhead
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.032713.29748@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 03:27:13 GMT
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From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
In article <1991Mar18.003201.22588@cbnews.att.com>, fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes...
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>From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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>Anyone know if Copperhead was used in the recent middle-east
>activities?

Yes it was.  During a TV network coverage of the war, a battalion commander
was overheard ordering someone in the field to 'lase' a tank so that a 
copperhead could be fired. I think the tank was destroyed by the copperhead.