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

[gmukund]

Jeroen wrote:
At 12:57 14-8-01 -0400, Gautam Mukunda wrote:

>I just wanted to toss in here - I'm fairly sure that I can identify every
>major piece of US military equipment by sight.  I have no idea what the
>"BAT gliders" you're talking about refer to, and I would guess that you
>have been sorely misinformed and no such things exist.

At 12:52 14-8-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship replied to that:

>A Google search turned up the following additional references to
>"Brilliant Anti-Armor Technology (BAT) gliders":

<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.


Jeroen

Nope.  I was right, in fact.  The weapons that you are referring to are _in
development_.  They are not, in fact, useful on the battlefield yet.  I
obviously am not familiar with everything that might potentially be in the
American arsenal in the future.  The fact that the website you cited
doesn't distinguish between hypothetical platforms that might (or might
not) be delpoyed in the future and those currently in the American arsenal
does not exactly speak well to its credibility.

Gautam