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Sino-Soviet border conflict, 1969
I've noticed you added a sentence regarding truck-mounted lasers (???) to the Sino-Soviet border conflict, 1969 article. To me, this sounds a little too ridiculous, but I can't deny outright it never happened. Could you, please, tell what the source of that information is? Also, is it directly related to the 1969 conflict, or did it happen on some other occasion (in which case the sentence should be moved out of this article)? Your help will be much appreciated! Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 03:32, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
--Gunter 14:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) I just checked my sources sources :), and it turns out due to a miscommunication, they were referring to was the BM-21 rocket launcher mounted on a Ural-375D 6x6 truck using LASER's for guidance... It sounded reasonable to me in so far as all new technologies are tested by the military, especially in real conflicts. I will remove what i added in the articles. Thanks for getting me to check!
- Thanks for rechecking and correcting this! Laser weaponry seemed kind of strange for a 1960s Soviet army... gave the conflict a kind of Star Wars flavor :)—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 22:37, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
Complete sentences
Hello. In regard to Hatf and Agni missile and stereoscopy, please note that conventional Wikipedia usage calls for complete sentences. Also, one should highlight the title word or title phrase at its first appearance, like this. See my recent edits to those articles. Michael Hardy 00:44, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your corrections, i will endeavour in future to do likewise. --Gunter 00:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Vannevar Bush
What you removed from the Bush article was based on reality, but the wording made it look like a bias. I have put the information back with better phrasing, and also placed a referecne to one of the many scholarly articles which talk of this. --AlainV 06:55, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
--Gunter 12:48, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)Thank you, that is much better.
XF/YF?
I've reverted your edit to XF-108 because I couldn't find anything to back up the change. Can you point me to a website that supports your change to 'YF'? I don't really know anything about the subject, but it seemed strange that you made a change that contradicted the title of the article. Noisy | Talk 19:26, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
The authority on the subject, Bill Yenne's "Rockwell: The Heritage of North American" states the aircraft prototype as the YF-108A. Since no actual aircraft was ever built, we could just call the article F-108, and reference YF-108A as the planned prototype. YF is sometimes used instead of XF for budgetary reasons.--Gunter 22:45, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)