RE: [OT] Question from the news

TOW's supposedly have a  maintenance free shelf life of 20 years.  So
they should be good for a few more years.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: glenn m wilson [mailto:triphibious@juno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 6:20 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT] Question from the news
> 
> 
> Third world maintenance is worse than other kinds...	Will these TOWs
> still work?
> 
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:50:16 -0500 Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> writes:
> >At 2:58 PM -0700 3/26/03, B Lin wrote:
> >>
> >>In SW Asia only US supplied allies use the TOW (Saudi-Arabia, 
> >>Kuwait).  Iran has almost 2000 due to Iran-Contra.
> >
> >They also had a number of F-14s. Not that any one of them is flyable 
> >in combat form as they stopped receiving parts shipments way back 
> >when.
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