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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: protection for transports
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Date: 13 Feb 90 03:19:44 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Interesting editorial in the 8 Jan issue of Aviation Week.  The USMC is
fitting all its large aircraft with passive missile-warning systems,
radar warning receivers, flare and chaff dispensers, and infrared jammers.
The USAF Reserve is fitting some of its transports with a less ambitious
set of defences.  But the USAF's heavies, including the C-130s and C-141s
which took the first waves of paratroops into Grenada and Panama, are
completely unprotected against fighters and ground-launched missiles, and
there are no plans to change this.

                                    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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