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From: orel@yale-com.UUCP (Matthew R. Orel)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The KAL-007 incident and military/government use of 747"s
Message-ID: <2008@yale-com.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 18:49:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 13 18:49:48 1983
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	There is a military plane which is a converted 747 -- it's called
the E-4.  Some smaller countries actually have Air Forces whose major
components are 747's (I'd have to look up which ones -- my brother is the
expert).  However, there is no reasonable way in which the Soviets could
have confused the planes.  As far as I know, the U.S. does not use 747's
in that region (too expensive and inefficient, I would suppose), and the
Soviets watch the U.S. closely enough to know that.
		-- Matt Orel
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