On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:57:02 -0700, "Lawson English"
<english7@mindspring.com> wrote:

>"harold" <harold.no.spambrashears@deletethisyahoo.com> wrote in message
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:13:25 -0700, "Lawson English"
>> <english7@mindspring.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> >Doesn't really matter the reference site as long as the quote is true.
>>
>> If you think it is reasonable use of resources to have hydrogen for
>> "artillery balloons" made in mobile labs.
>>
>> Why don't you point to another nation that has mobile labs to make
>> hydrogen for "artillery balloons."
>>
>
>The British SOLD at least one to the Iraqis in 1987 according to British
>news reports.

You mean the BBC, or what? Source, please.
>
>BTW, don't know if the Iraqis were using this method or not, but the use of
>a chemical generator of hydrogen for filling balloons dates back to AT LEAST
>1920. The process might conceivably be similar and sufficiently low-tech for
>Iraqi needs:
>
>http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/reports/19...-report-40.pdf
>
>Oh, and the US Army uses field-produced hydrogen for artillery balloons.
>Below is a URL to a US military electrolytic MHG. Note the first use of this
>particular system in 1998:
>
>http://sill-www.army.mil/TNGCMD/mat/MET/hg.htm

That truck does not look like anything found in Iraq.
>
>DESCRIPTION:
>The Hydrogen Generator (HG) is a mobile system that will produce the gas
>necessary for inflating meteorological balloons used by artillery Met
>sections. The system will produce 150 cubic feet of gas per hour, and store
>300 cubic feet. It will be skid mounted on a HMMWV in units equipped with
>the AN/TMQ-41 Met Measuring Set (MMS).
>[...]
>
>CURRENT STATUS:
>First Unit Equipped 2QFY98

Thank you, you did find something which is applicable, and appears to
prove me incorrect.

I still do not see any reason to believe that Iraq was not able to use
these to produce chemical/biological weapons.


Regards, Harold
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