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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] In any case, the M-109-chassis Rolands were probably intended as a rapidly air-redeployable force, with base protection as a side job... They are for point defense, while Patriots are more of an area defense system - and the preceding-generation Hawk system (which is closer to area than point defense) would also have been used to protect the RAF bases, right? (Or did you still have Bloodhounds?) Neither Hawk nor Patriot is as air-mobile as Roland (or tracked Rapier, or some comparable system), which basically requires nothing more than the launcher vehicle. Area defense missile systems are veritable circuses of vehicles. You should see a SA-3 battery on the move! It's got everything, from an animal act (the MP dogs) to trapeze artists (the poor saps who get to erect the radar) to clowns (the people who insist the system is mobile)... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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