Re: Landmines RE: US Foreign Policy Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

[Marvin Long, Jr.]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:

> <snipped links>
>
> Guess I wasn't all that "sorely misinformed" after all. Sorry Gautam, but
> just because *you* haven't heard of BAT gliders doesn't mean they don't
> exist. Time to give your knowledge of US military hardware an update.

Out of curiosity, are these BAT gliders a currently functioning,
deployable weapons technology, or are they one of several weapons still in
the testing/prototype stage?  The quotes Ronn provided suggested the
latter to me.

Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

"The ego that sees a 'thou' is fundamentally different from an ego that
sees an 'it.'"                                       -- Joseph Campbell