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RE: [OT] Question from the news

From: "B Lin" <lin@r...>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:52:56 -0700
Subject: RE: [OT] Question from the news

Well don't know about the warranty, after all if the Iranians use some
and they don't work, I'm pretty sure the US government isn't going to
refund their money or replace the items! :)

--Binhan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: glenn m wilson [mailto:triphibious@juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:29 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT] Question from the news
> 
> 
> Very interesting.   A warranty that works!
> 
> Gracias,
> Glenn
> 
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:19:59 -0700 "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com> writes:
> >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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