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From: bash@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (Thomas W. Basham)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: RATO and JATO
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Date: 16 Aug 89 06:16:38 GMT
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From: bash@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (Thomas W. Basham)

[When quoting someone please include their name and address!  Thanks. --CDR]
>I'm wondering whether RATO or JATO was purely experimental, or whether it
>was ever a deployed system?  Are any RATO or JATO system currently in use
>or under experimentation?


I don't know much about this, however, I have seen pictures of an
Etentard (spelled?) taking of with a RATO system.  That's the only place
I've ever seen such a contraption.  I can't remebmer where I saw this,
if anyone cares I'll look it up.

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