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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Radar
Message-ID: <1988Sep18.214905.25208@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12462@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 88 21:49:05 GMT

>Can someone post, in addition, what went wrong with the radar of the ship
>that has shot down the Iranian airliner?
>(I want to ask the policeman how comes his radar cannot make any mistakes,
>when the radar of a very expensive warship has made them.)

Unfortunately, the answer will probably not be of any real use to you.
The Vincennes' radar was functioning properly and doing its job.  The
problem was in human interpretation of the results.
-- 
NASA is into artificial        |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
stupidity.  - Jerry Pournelle  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu