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Re: Newspeak 2003
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Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:36:21 GMT
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And to the Turkish citizens throwing things at the people trying to retrieve
errant missiles - SHAME on you.  A major reason for retrieval is to help
figure out WHY they were errant (of course naysayers will say they were
retrieved so that other countries could not harvest the technology - while
this is a true concern, stopping it from happening again in the future is
the main concern).

Hey, why not let China [et al] make a copy of a dud? ;)

Scott A



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  Re: Newspeak 2003
 
(...) Note - the word "hit" needs to be qualified here. Errant missiles have not made it to their targets, but they basically crash-landed. Tomahawks are not fully armed until just before reaching their targets, so errant missiles may cause small (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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