OT: was GMS Air

> Daniel and Alan wrote:

> > > Well first off an RB70 is a wire guided optically sighted SAM.

Thanks, Daniel. I was going to check this with my collegues at work today
since I haven't worked with the RBS70 myself; but I saw your post
in time so I didn't have to :-)

> Carl Gustav - another fine piece of Swedish engineering that the

As a US officer told our sales people: "The three most important features to
introduce into the Carl Gustaf system is Soft Launch, Soft Launch and Soft
Launch". I'm the one stuck with solving that problem
:-/ Now if only those sales people could stop bugging me about
supporting them and actually let me work...

Los wrote (also in reply to Daniel):

> Thanks for the correction though noone claimed it could knock out a

Not that it matters much, but I read you as talking about AFVs in general
rather than specifying light vehicles only <shrug> The original
discussion was about tank killing vs copter/airplane killing.

> The interesting thing about the RB70 is that it

Size, cost and reduced vulnerability to countermeasures.

> How effective was it?

Pretty effective. (Though I may be considered biased, of course :-/ )

[Horror stories about the M47 Dragon snipped]

> These are just personal observations I've heard numerous horror
performed in wartime...

Would you mind if I forward those observations to our sales people? :-)

Best wishes,