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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (31860)	6/8/2002 12:56:06 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re the Crusader artillery piece... I read recently somewhere that they were replacing it with various guided rockets and the like. What I like about artillery, as opposed to rockets is that artillery provides more metal on target per dollar and per ton. If we ever again get in a real war bang for the buck is going to be important again. Re: "Especially when compared to the cost to deploy and maintain a Spectre gunship." The other problem with Spectre is that it can be relatively easily shot down. The SOF guys want a stealthy version: globalsecurity.org -- Carl

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