A6014LHG%HASARA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Leo Geesink) (01/18/91)
From: Leo Geesink <A6014LHG%HASARA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Yesterday, the two Dutch patriot squadrons left for Turkey. Due to the fact that the US didn't have the transport capacity and the Royal Netherlands Army doesn't have planes like the galaxy, the only way to get the missiles in turkey was by means of a soviet 'commercial' transport company. So, accompanied by Dutch military personnel, the missiles went on their way in an Antonov 224 Condor. The patriots are expected to become operational tomorrow. Leo Geesink | bitnet : A6014LHG@HASARA11 University of Amsterdam | internet: GEESINK@SARA.NL Dept. of Information Systems
sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) (01/19/91)
From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) In article <1991Jan18.003442.8516@cbnews.att.com>, A6014LHG%HASARA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Leo Geesink) writes: >Yesterday, the two Dutch patriot squadrons left for Turkey. Due to the fact >that the US didn't have the transport capacity and the Royal Netherlands >Army doesn't have planes like the galaxy, the only way to get the missiles >in turkey was by means of a soviet 'commercial' transport company. >So, accompanied by Dutch military personnel, the missiles went on their way >in an Antonov 224 Condor. The patriots are expected to become operational >tomorrow. Eeek! Are you serious? Hope they don't make an extended stop in, euh... Moscow for, uh, yah, refuelling. Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park * Ray Kaplan was right *
psyc0147@waikato.ac.nz (John W. Fowlie) (01/22/91)
From: psyc0147@waikato.ac.nz (John W. Fowlie) In article <1991Jan19.041620.5149@cbnews.att.com>, sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes: > > > From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) > In article <1991Jan18.003442.8516@cbnews.att.com>, A6014LHG%HASARA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Leo Geesink) writes: > >>Yesterday, the two Dutch patriot squadrons left for Turkey. Due to the fact >>that the US didn't have the transport capacity and the Royal Netherlands >>Army doesn't have planes like the galaxy, the only way to get the missiles >>in turkey was by means of a soviet 'commercial' transport company. > >>So, accompanied by Dutch military personnel, the missiles went on their way >>in an Antonov 224 Condor. The patriots are expected to become operational >>tomorrow. > > Eeek! Are you serious? Hope they don't make an extended stop in, euh... > Moscow for, uh, yah, refuelling. > > Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park > * Ray Kaplan was right * It has happened before. Three months ago the NZ meat board had a rush delivery of frozen beef and lamb to the middle east; so they hired a Condor while flying over Afganistan they were shot at by Stinger missles from the Mujahadeen, so they had to increase their altitude and change course. They had an unshedueled stop in one of the Asian Soviet Republics were $NZ50 000 worth of meat was 'appropriated' by soviet military in exchange for fuel. This was witnessed by the NZ Meat board "government" representative who accompanied the meat. -- You be the judge. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X X X X John William Fowlie X X X Psychology Dept. X X X University of Waikato X X X Hamilton X X X NEW ZEALAND X X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
bxr307@csc.anu.edu.au (01/23/91)
From: bxr307@csc.anu.edu.au In article <1991Jan18.003442.8516@cbnews.att.com>, A6014LHG%HASARA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Leo Geesink) writes: > > Yesterday, the two Dutch patriot squadrons left for Turkey. Due to the fact > that the US didn't have the transport capacity and the Royal Netherlands > Army doesn't have planes like the galaxy, the only way to get the missiles > in turkey was by means of a soviet 'commercial' transport company. This is not that unusual. During the early 1980's when the large F16 NATO building program was underway in Europe components for the aircraft were transported by ship to Europe. The US merchant service was unable apparently to supply enough ships due to committments elsewhere so the job went out to tender. Guess who has the larges merchant marine in the world and won the job? You guessed right, the Soviet Union! ;-) Brian Ross