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Re: Maybe I should have chosen my words differently...
Posted by Gregory Alegi on Thu Jan 10, 2002 11:45:41 AM
In reply top Re: Maybe I should have chosen my words differently... posted by Elliott on Thu Jan 10, 2002 09:33:52 AM
: I went to a yard in the UK last year and enquired about th
: e possibility of picking up a Phantom they were about to r
: ecieve. Unfortunately they were under explicit instructio
: ns to destroy it under the terms of the SALT treaty
I think the treaty referred to is actually CFE (Conventional Forces in Europe) which prescribes not only specific limits on combat-capable aircraft for each country, but also fixes the number of those which can preserved intact. For all others, the treaty prescribes specific non-surgical scrapping or permanent structural damage. The treaty makes sad reading, but I guess that "trust" was not the name of the game when CFE was signed.
Gregory