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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Thu, 8-May-86 13:01:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  8 13:01:22 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

What?  If they want to nuke us, that's one thing, but I won't stand for
having Russian copies of the F-111 falling apart in US airspace. :-)

Clayton E. Cramer