Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!cbnews!schvland@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu From: schvland@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Schavland) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Libyan bombers Message-ID: <5631@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Apr 89 01:11:47 GMT References: <5548@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: schvland@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Schavland) In article <5548@cbnews.ATT.COM> pv04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip Verdieck) writes: > > >From: Philip Verdieck >I have read articles that the Russians recently sold 14 or 15 >long-range bombers to Libya. Does anybody know whether these >were Badgers or Backfires? (I would assume the former). The >article also said that they couldn't reach Israel without >refueling. I seriously doubt the Libyans have Air-Air refueling >capabilities. > I believe that the "bombers" in question are Fencers. It's not really a big deal whether or not they can strike Israel without in-flight refueling. What matters is that the Libyans now have an excellent delivery system for chemical weapons. That's what the press is going nuts about. -- Jeffrey A. Schavland | Illini Space Development Society P.O. Box 2308 - Station A | NSS chapter at the University of Illinois Champaign, IL 61825-2308 | (217) 352-5824 (home) | "I reject that [the Sherlock Holmes (217) 333-1608 (work) | principle] entirely. The impossible often | has a kind of integrity to it which the schvland@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu | merely improbable lacks." schvland@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu | - Dirk Gently