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From: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Sat, 3-May-86 20:42:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 20:42:12 1986
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In article <227@alliant.UUCP> gottlieb@alliant.UUCP (Bob Gottlieb) writes:
>I was interested to read that on April 1st, the US Navy launched
>a conventionally-armed Tomahawk missile, which travelled 400 miles
>to explode it's 1000 lb warhead directly over a parked airplane.
>AW&ST has a photo of the plane blowing up.
>
>Why didn't we use these to:
>    1. Hit the targets without losing aircraft
>    2. Hit the targets without hitting civilians.

I would imagine that the Navy would be disinclined to risk having one
captured and given to the Soviets for spite.  As it stands, the Ruskies
may have gotten an F-111, which by all reports is the kind of plane we'd
sort of *like* them to copy.

						Baba