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  1. Newsgroups: sci.military
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
  3. From: Scott Olson <sdo@email.sp.paramax.com>
  4. Subject: Re: Anti-aircraft
  5. Message-ID: <C1F756.L6v@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  7. Organization: Paramax -  Eagan, MN
  8. References: <C19ny2.3HL@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  9. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:27:06 GMT
  10. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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  14. From Scott Olson <sdo@email.sp.paramax.com>
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  16. "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com> writes:
  17. > 
  18. > Some are, some aren't. Typically anything under about 40mm is contact
  19. > fused. They'd be throwing 88s at a B-17 - it's the only shell that could
  20. > get that high.
  21. > 
  22.     Well, no, more likely they were 105mm or 128mm flak.  The 88's
  23. were field heavy flak, not the big stuff used for defending fixed
  24. targets.  The Germans even were working on, but never put into production,
  25. a 150mm flak gun.
  26.  
  27.             Scott
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