RE: [OT] Question from the news

What was the line from Ice Station Zebra?  Something like "We're up here
to 
capture some pictures on film made by our German scientists, taken with
a 
camera made by their German scientists from a satellite made by your
German 
scientists" (English intelligence operative to US Sub commander)

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Oerjan Ohlson
Sent:	Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:08 PM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Re: [OT] Question from the news

Two comments to what Mike Hillsgrove wrote:

>Russians invented the TOW (Generic term for optically tracked and wire
>guided antitank weapon. I think that we called them saggers way back
when.

The generic terms for this type of weapons are ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided
Missile)/ATGW (Anti-Tank Guided Weapon). TOW is one specific series of
US-designed ATGMs, just like the Sagger refers specifically to the
Soviet-designed AT-3.

It wasn't the Russians who invented the ATGM concept, either - the
Germans
did that during WW2, but as with so many other of their wonder-weapons
they
did it too late to have any effect on the outcome.

Regards

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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