Pjmac35 wrote:
Am I alone in feeling I wouldn't really care if I never saw another missile
in my entire life?




Heh ... a couple of thoughts .... since I am an old retired MI type,
have you any idea how much time and money we would have put into
obtaining some of the images we've seen (not only missiles but other
aircraft). Wow, we should have been so lucky .. instead of me standing
on the cobblestones at the October 1976 Soviet May Day Celebration and
trying to take telephoto shots of antenna wave guides on a truck mounted
SA-something or other flying by at 20 miles per hour (any idea how
trying to track an object that huge from 50 feet away with the GRU on
one side and the KGB on the other side jostling elbows and in one case a
GRU Hottie massaging my rather freezing buttockal region).

Et Secundus, just like I enjoy odd-World War Two experimental airplanes
(Horta,s, YB-32'a, XP-53's) there are some folks (God Love 'em) who can
tell the difference between a Croatale built for export overtly, built
for export covertly and built for domestic use.

Cheers,

Dave


PS .. at least I 'think' that hottie was a female ... when it is minus
ten degrees and snowing, all bets are off.

dem