Re: Bye-bye INF treaty?

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:13:58 -0600, Henry Spencer wrote
(in article <JDw3BB.7wn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <460c220c.683280465@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Worse than that, they've discovered how to make shaped-charges quickly and
cheaply and are using them to great effect against up-armored Humvees and
trucks.

They didn't "learn" how to do it. Those weapons are probably being
supplied by Tehran.

Or possibly not. It's not like crude shaped charges are *hard* to make.


Nope, not at all. They've been used for awhile now by Palestinians and used
last summer against Israeli armor in their little tussle with the forces in
Lebanon. Of course, in Rand's World, I'm sure those came from Iran too. :-/

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~Johnny Cash

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