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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> > Does anyone know if the munitions in Iraq are coded in Ada, or are
> > they mainly C++, or even PL/1? :-)
>
> I guess the smart bombs[*] are coded in Ada and the dumb bombs in C++.
> Dirty bombs are coded in C. ;-) The Patriot missiles seem to have
> some problems shooting down the Iraq missiles.

Preben, if you are going to make snide remarks, you should at least make
them TRUTHFUL snide remarks.

Last report I saw, the PAC-3 batteries were 6 for 6 against Iraqi missiles.

Including an Abibil-2 (sp?) that Iraq developed post-1991, under the 90-mile
range limit, that was intercepted and destroyed AFTER it had already flown
110 miles.