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From: ziegler@lzmi.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Miscellaneous (Sgt. York gun and radar)
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 19:41:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 19:41:13 1984
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> During other tests, Heilig acknowoledged, the York radar
> system ignored moving air targets and instead identified large,
> nearby buildings as targets."

But those buildings are so much easier to hit!  Actually, this is the
perfect weapon if you happen to have enemies hiding in buildings and
friendly aircraft flying above.  They should have deployed it in Beirut.

Seriously, though that sounds like a reversed conditional in the "bird
filter".  So much for quality control and reliability in real-time
programming...