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- From: "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com>
- Subject: Re: WW2 BARRAGE
- Message-ID: <BzM9u7.MDr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- References: <BzEzGK.FMt@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BzH56M.B81@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:01:19 GMT
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- From "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <BzH56M.B81@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou) writes:
- >
- >Do these balloons, nets, cables do any damage to modern low level strike
- >aircraft, like f-15e and tornado? or better yet, f-117 and b-2? given the
- >speed of those birds, i would guess the impact be quite serious, although
- >the idea looks positively low-tech. might even hang a few claymore to enhance
- >the effect. what do you think?
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- What do you *think* the effect is going to be of hitting a 1" piece of
- steel at hundreds of miles per hour? Low-tech doesn't mean ineffective.
- The claymore idea is interesting, but the cables normally used are quite
- heavy as it is. It probably wouldn't be worth it to make a balloon big
- enough to hold up mines as well.
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- | The easy confidence with which I know that another
- George Patterson - | man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that
- | my own is also.
- | Samuel Clemens
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