From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,278dbaa392fd4ed1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-27 01:17:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Protest against the war on Iraq Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <8D1A908984683B68.5DC74E89048F2C16.5CC940D2ADF592EC@lp.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1048756621 26250 129.241.83.78 (27 Mar 2003 09:17:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:17:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35754 Date: 2003-03-27T09:17:01+00:00 List-Id: John R. Strohm wrote: >> 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. Don't know where you saw this. > 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. A british plane was shot down. And another F-16 (?) was locked on but it fired on the radar station so it wasn't shot down. Preben