To: GarySpFc
A lot of their stuff is startlingly similar to ours. Cases in point:
M1A series
Stinger
TOW 2B
Tomahawk (with fixed instead of retractable wings)
M-109 Paladin
To the best of my knowlege, we never sold them any of this technology, the last thing they got from us was:
17 posted on
08/18/2006 12:55:16 PM PDT by
stm
(Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
To: stm
Exactly, and that is what most are missing. The Iranian Toophan 2 missile you show has a tandem warhead, which achieves exactly the same effect as the Russian Kornet missile. It is easy to see why Israeli forces would mistake the two.
18 posted on
08/18/2006 1:11:51 PM PDT by
GarySpFc
(Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
To: stm
We did sell them hundreds of American TOW missiles during Iran-Contra.
19 posted on
08/18/2006 1:13:57 PM PDT by
GarySpFc
(Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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