[sci.military] Copperhead

fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) (03/18/91)

From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

Anyone know if Copperhead was used in the recent middle-east
activities?


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smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan) (03/20/91)

From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
In article <1991Mar18.003201.22588@cbnews.att.com>, fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes...
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>From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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>Anyone know if Copperhead was used in the recent middle-east
>activities?

Yes it was.  During a TV network coverage of the war, a battalion commander
was overheard ordering someone in the field to 'lase' a tank so that a 
copperhead could be fired. I think the tank was destroyed by the copperhead.