CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (12/17/83)
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> For careful consumption: Heard yesterday: The reason for the successful sinking of the British ship Sheffield was that the Exocet-missiles, of French (NATO) making, was mistakenly identified as a "FRIENDLY" missile by the British "Friend-or-Foe" defense system. The British were GREATLY alarmed and, immediately, sent down a programmer team to reprogram their software. Successfully so and at great speed, as the Argentines were unsuccessful in all further attacks against war-ships with the hardware and software to do "Friend-or-Foe" recognition. What d'you think of that one? I was intrigued ..... -------