"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message
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The Russians just about admitted when they complained about some of their
nationals being killed by our planes that they were removing
"incriminating technology" from Irag into Syria. Speculation was they
they were moving records, advanced SAM systems, GPS jamming systems,
Computers, missles and other equipment that they weren't allowed to sell
Saddam. Trucks were seen loading at sites north of Bagdad and driving
east. Since they had information on our satellite systems they could time
the travel so that we couldn't see where they went.


Frankly, who could blame them for having equipment there? There's only so
far you can go with testing certain technologies before you finally have to
try them in real world situations. We are no different. Remember some of the
news reports in the first days of Desert Storm? All the networks were
reporting comments from the military, and even companies like Raytheon,
about new technologies we were pleased with (or those which needed work).