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  1. Newsgroups: sci.military
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ncr-sd!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
  3. From: "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com>
  4. Subject: Re: Anti-aircraft
  5. Message-ID: <C19ny2.3HL@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  7. Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
  8. References: <C124wI.7op@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C17w37.FLI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  9. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:44:26 GMT
  10. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
  11. Lines: 19
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  14. From "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com>
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  16. In article <C17w37.FLI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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  18. >I always thought that AA shells were fused to explode at a given al-
  19. >titude. Remember all those movies about B-17s over Germany, and all
  20. >that flak?
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  22. Some are, some aren't. Typically anything under about 40mm is contact
  23. fused. They'd be throwing 88s at a B-17 - it's the only shell that could
  24. get that high.
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  27.                     | I was told that the best defense is a good
  28. George Patterson -  | offense, so I made up my mind early in life
  29.                     | to be as offensive as possible.
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