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To: dennisw
Oh, my info indicated quite an arsenal in SA, including the vital neutron bombs. But if there were just five, where are THEY?
14 posted on 12/01/2002 6:18:19 AM PST by crystalk
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To: crystalk
I only have guesses...no info. I just can't concieve of SA having made too many nukes. Israel has plenty of enemy targets on it's list. Who would the SA have used a nuke on? Itself? One of the Black homelands?

Arab nations are a constant menace. SA was not in the same situation...
15 posted on 12/01/2002 6:24:09 AM PST by dennisw
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To: crystalk
Oh, my info indicated quite an arsenal in SA, including the vital neutron bombs, But if there were just five, where are THEY?

A better question: if still around, how might they best be delivered. South Africa's crapped-out Canberra bombers and Hawker Siddeley/BAe Buccaneer strike aircraft were sufficient for those half-dozen or so devices of the 1970s/80s, and the planned follow-on, the South African-built Cheetah E could likely have air delivered such units up to the present day. But what now?

The earliest SA nukes weighed in at around a ton, a bit beyond what South Africa's proposed missile delivery systems could manage, hence a 1980s change to a preference for ChemBio payloads- more cost effective in any event, though downsizing of the bomb units with their proposed modernizetion might have been accomplished. But even in their original form, I guess one of the old South African Airways 747SPs might do it....

-archy-/-


20 posted on 12/01/2002 2:32:23 PM PST by archy
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