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To: Clioman
I didn't say it didn't work - I said it costs as much as 10 M-1 tanks.

That is odd.

11 posted on 07/18/2005 3:54:42 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: patton

Odd? How so? Tanks are purchased in mass quantities and built on assembly lines; the M1A1's design has been effectively fixed for a decade. Aircraft like the GH are virtually hand-made in ones and twos, and their sensors are a working definition of the term "state of the art." Tanks can do good work, but only when they know where to shoot...systems like GH are force multipliers that can make a regiment of M1s worth a division of T-72s.


12 posted on 07/18/2005 4:05:57 PM PDT by Clioman
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